Homeschooling vs. Roadschooling

Several months ago, I discovered a website for "Families on the Road". (The link is provided below) This site is dedicated to families that RV fulltime. There, I discovered that families that home school while living on wheels call it "road schooling". Doesn't that sound cool? We currently home school through a charter school using the K12 curriculum. I thought road schooling would be no different from homeschooling. However, like everything else in our new lifestyle, road schooling has presented a unique set of challenges. Most of these are due to our limited space. For example, we are provided with a ton of workbooks, but we haven't anywhere to put them. Fortunately, this problem was easily solved. We are able to download and print most of the workbook pages from school website. Unfortunately we are using a ton of paper and toner. Not exactly the greenest way to go. We are also having trouble figuring out how to complete school art assignments (and our regular arts and crafts projects). Not only do we have a tiny dining room table, it is completely carpeted underneath. It's just not a suitable area for painting, cutting and gluing! At first, the solution seemed simple enough. There is a wooden picnic table at our camp site. We would do arts and crafts outdoors! We could enjoy both the beauty of nature and our craft time together. We soon realized that it was too windy here in the winter. Papers, beads, feathers, markers and even glue sticks were quickly blown into the bushes. We organized the art supplies into a small Tupperware type container with a lid. That worked well. We tried putting small rocks on the corners of our papers to hold them down on the table. They were to light, and the stones soon joined the markers and paint brushes in the bushes. We tried larger stones, but they took up to much of the paper. Next we stapled the papers to the wooden table. This worked great, however, I am not sure the park management will be thrilled to find staples all over their picnic table. Then the rain started, and finally the snow. We had to give up art projects altogether. Although we are back to beautiful, sunny weather, it is still very windy here. We are still working on the perfect solution to this issue. The other issue we are having is not related to space at all. I'm not sure it is even really a problem. My children have always lived in the city or in the suburbs. Our contact with nature has been limited. The fact is we are enjoying camping full time. The distractions are endless! It is hard for the girls to concentrate when the outdoors is constantly calling to them. During our regular "school time" the girls frequently ask for breaks. "Mom, can I go out for some fresh air?" is a frequent request. Once they are out, they get their much needed breath of fresh air by running around like a pack of wild banshees playing and exploring. It's hard to get them to settle down again. Although I do sometimes find them intently watching an insect they've never seen before or trying to sketch a raven or hare. We've been able to incorporate some of this into our curriculum. We've discovered that we can see a million stars here, so the girls are now fascinated with the constellations. We have been picking up some astronomy. BTW, we found an awesome web site, Astronomy for Kids. The site is: http://www.kidsastronomy.com. I believe that using the method of homeschooling known as "unschooling" would solve this particular problem. However, this is not something I am free to decide on my own, so it is out of the question for the present.
Anyhow, I am sure that we will rise to the unique challenges of road schooling. After all, when we first started, homeschooling was no piece of cake!