Sixteen years ago my wife and I bought a pickup truck and a trailer, packed up our belongings and our dog, and embarked on a nine month tour around the USA (and a little bit of Canada). It had high points and low points but all in all it was a blast, and remains one of our greatest memories. (For a taste, here’s the four-day diary I wrote for Slate)

Now that we are parents of a teen and a preteen, it’s time to do it again! We will leave Seattle on August 1 and circumnavigate the country clockwise, returning home about a year after we started. We have lots of ideas about where we’ll go, but so far only a few milestones (including a few talks I’m already committed to). We’ll fill in the rest as we go.

While on the road I will continue to draw Unshelved, and write Not Invented Here, and my wife Sara will continue to homeschool our two kids Theo and Rosie, with a strong emphasis on American history. We will all be blogging our adventures, starting with the preparations in which we are currently knee-deep. Of course you may feel free to ask questions.

While I’m in your neighborhood, perhaps you’d like to hire me to talk about this crazy thing I do for a living. I have created a new workshop aimed at the public called Cartooning in the Digital Age that I am offering to libraries around the country. It’s a fun two-hour workshop that will attempt to cover everything I know about creating comic strips, publishing them to the Web, and making money.

If we’ll be in your area anyway the cost is just $500, otherwise there might be some extra expenses. Email me if you’re interested, and tell us why your town will make a great stop on our family’s homeschool adventure.

We hope to see you on the road!