Looking for beauty...tentative road trip of discovery map

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Here you see a probable route, we've been working on the details and seem to have come to a consensus.  We are cross referencing National Parks, areas of beauty and natural wonder, dance people and communities that are inspirational or interesting, progressive school districts, and family.  We are actively looking for communities that we want to spend time in, if you have any recommendations at all, we'd love to incorporate them.

For the teachers and thinkers out there, two of the books I'm reading, Everything Green Classroom Book by Tessa Hill, and Last Child in the Woods, by Richard Louv, offer great and practical, as well as theoretical ideas about children and nature, and the way times have changed.  Lately I've been inundated with appropriately serendipitous information from an article in Telegraph Herald (the local Dubuque daily paper), and Iowa Public Radio which both rally around the benefits of nature to a child's thought process and their ability to think critically.  Both mention that children that spend time outside on a grass play ground have a different (and MORE complete and complex) thought experience than children that spend time on blacktop or cement.

I'm looking forward to deepening my experiential research in surrounding myself with nature, observing breath, dance impulses, and changes in thought process.