Rocky Mountain Teacher
As an online teacher I have the wonderful flexibility of building my own schedule and this makesĀ managing the demands of my personal life less stressful. At the end of July this year, I was able spend four weeks on the road traveling back and forth between our home in South East Texas to the Denver Colorado area where my son prepared interview and ultimately move for his new job.
The first stop in our month long trip was Colorado Springs a central location between two job interview opportunities for my son. In between his interviews and my classes, we scouted the area for apartments and took some time to visit a few must see sights. As an Air Force Veteran, the Academy was on my to do list, and my son was set on visiting Red Rock.
We booked a stay at the cutest Air BnB in Colorado Springs and it provided the perfect place to relax, teach, and wait for a call of a job offer, which he got the day after interviewing for the job he wanted. With a start date in two weeks, we amped up the apartment searching over the next three days, and finally found the perfect place and secured it with a deposit.
Step one accomplished, we drove (he drove most of it) all night back to South Texas to pack up his room, half of my kitchen items, and a couple of extra pieces of furniture to get him started in to a rented U-Haul, that we pulled back to Denver four days later, and arrived the day before he started his job and got the keys to his new apartment.
Because of the flexibility of my job, I was able to stay as long as he needed me to help him get settled in. A week was all he needed.
Teaching remotely while on the road from hotels or a family members place, I never have to miss out on something I want to do or somewhere I want to go. Since the school year typically starts mid August, as a classroom teacher, this venture would not have been possible. However-remote teaching affords me opportunities to spend time and do things for my family that I couldn't always do while tied down to a classroom. While the trip did put my multitasking skills to the test, I easily navigated the month long trip teaching in hotel room and staying a few nights in my son's new apartment.
As I headed back to my now empty nest in Texas, I started thinking about my next steps to buy an RV so I can visit both of my sons and explore the countryside while continuing my remote teaching gigs from road.