Family of 14 gives up everything to live in RV
The Kellogg family in 2012. (Cody, 3 months, not pictured.)
“Every single day is a weekend."
That's how Susie Kellogg, mother of 12, describes family life these days, after she and her husband, Dan, decided to sell their Glenwood Springs, Colorado home last fall, fill up an RV with their children—all of them—and travel the country in search of adventure. Permanently.
All but one of the Kellogg children—aged 3 months to 19 years, each with names ending in a "y"—are home-, er, RV-schooled in the morning. In the afternoon, they explore: kayaking, hiking, camping—anything they want.
“This is what freedom is,” Dan Kellogg told the "Today" show. “You go after it.”
“I want them to live life in the moment and not be living for tomorrow or ‘After my kids are grown’ or ‘Thank God it’s Friday,’” Susie added.
The eldest child—Kerry, who graduated from high school last spring—gave up a chance to go to college, opting to join the family on the road and work on graphic design.
“[At first] I thought that going in an RV wasn’t normal and was weird,” she told the "Today" show. But "we can do anything we want now. Anything. And nothing is holding us back.”
“I am so ready for this,” Kerry told Denver's Fox 31. “I am over Glenwood. I just want to enjoy new adventures and see new places.”
The Kelloggs have a website (KelloggShow.com), Twitter feed, Facebook page and YouTube channelto document their travels and promote their unusual way of life. They even penned a parenting guide—"Raising a Badass Family"—that Dan calls "a ramped-up, modern version of that which Dr. Spock and Dr. T. Berry Brazelton pioneered in both the 1940s and 1990s."
My Response
This story of human freedom and choice is in sharp contrast with the blog on the humanitarian anguish in Egypt
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