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Week 1 of 52 · Maine
Your family travel companion.
Plan the week, find the foods, learn the stories and keep the kids curious — one state at a time.
Maine family plan · 7 days
This week's route 🗺️
Portland to Acadia
Historic trains, island mailboats, blueberry popovers, tide pools and the wild Atlantic edge.
7days
3regions
20kit pages
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We’re giving you and your family a fun, easy way to discover America together — no packing required. Here is what you get every week:
Hidden gems
The coolest spots to see and the best regional food to try.
Mind-blowing trivia
Quick, fun facts that will make your kids the smartest at the table.
Free printables
Instant access to 20 printer-ready pages made perfectly for homeschool tables and clipboard learning.
✏️ Every single activity is clearly stepped from kindergarten through 8th grade, making it effortless to keep the whole family engaged.
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The Maine State Kit 🎒
Twenty printer-ready pages made for homeschool tables and road-trip clipboards, with activities clearly stepped from kindergarten through grade 8.
Maps for the road 🗺️
Labeling worksheet, offline orientation map and a family packing list.
Learning by level 📚
Facts, history, science, reading, math and writing for K–2, 3–5 and 6–8.
Hands-on pages ✂️
Recipe card, scavenger hunt, state flag study and a full-page coloring poster.
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Every state kit, complete archive and monthly live Q&A sessions are coming next.
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Members will receive all 50 state kits, grade-banded worksheets through grade 8, offline maps, packing lists, the full archive and a live family Q&A before major school breaks. Everything is digital, so there is nothing to ship or store.
Week 1 · Maine
The weekly guide 🧭
Six tabs, one state. Pick the part you need — the facts at breakfast, the itinerary in the car, the recipe on Sunday.
3,478 mi
of tidal coastline 🌊
More shoreline than California, hidden in all those coves.
Nearly 100%
of the U.S. wild blueberry crop 🫐
Lowbush wild berries grow close to the ground across connected patches.
65
lighthouses still standing ⚓
The oldest, Portland Head, was lit in 1791 by order of Washington.
1820
the year of statehood 🏛️
The 23rd state, split off from Massachusetts.
🎉 Eight things to spring on the kids
🦞 A lobster's blood is clear until it hits air — then it turns pale blue.
🫎 Maine has the largest moose population in the lower 48 states.
🌅 Cadillac Mountain in Acadia is the first place in the U.S. to see the sunrise for part of the year.
🍰 The whoopie pie is Maine's official state treat. The blueberry pie is the official state dessert. Maine has two.
🌐 Eartha, the world's largest rotating globe, spins inside a building in Yarmouth — it's three stories tall.
🌱 Wild blueberry plants spread through underground stems called rhizomes, forming connected patches across the barrens.
🗺️ Maine touches only one other state (New Hampshire) — the loneliest border in the country.
📏 Lobsters have to be measured before they're kept. Too small or too big and they go back in the water.
The route ahead 🗺️
Next stops on the calendar 📍
After week 52 the passports come out: year two runs the same format abroad — one country a week, same facts-recipe-culture-itinerary spine.
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The week's facts, recipe, printable kid worksheet and the itinerary. Paid members also get the packing lists, offline maps and the archive.