Angel in FL Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 How far do you travel for practice, music lessons, classes, etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angela in ohio Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 We travel 35 minutes for flute lessons, 25 minutes for piano, 20-30 (depending on traffic, it's at a university right in the city) for clarinet, 25 minutes for orchestra, 45 for dd's internship, 20 for dds' volunteer position, 20 for robotics, 20 for art, 0-5 for Scouts (most meetings are at our home,) and 5-15 minutes for various sports. We'll be adding 5 minutes for band in the fall. That's for the weekly stuff. We also travel hours to get to various camps and competitions during the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 My DD does Young Champions cheer. The practices are close to home (about 10 minutes), but there are two rounds of competition a year, each containing one regional (about an hour 1/2 away, but this year it's supposed to be closer to home) and one state (about 4 hours away) competition if they qualify at regionals, and her team almost always does. At her level, they don't go to nationals, but the older girls end up doing a nationals trip basically every summer, this year to Indianapolis. She also takes dance, tumbling, and piano, but all of those are within about 10-15 minutes of home. Our co-op is about 30 minutes each way during the school year, and so is her homeschool lab science class, but I don't consider either of those extracurricular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teachermom2834 Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 Because of where we live we need to drive about 30-35 minutes to get to most of our activities. It feels excessive and gets old but we really just can't afford to move. On the flip side we live just 10 minutes from dh's work. I have to remind myself that many people commute 30 minutes to work everyday. If we moved to the town all our activities are in he would have the same commute every day. I'll feel better if a bunch of people respond saying that they travel 30 minutes for activities regularly :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 Most activities (sports, scouts, 4-H) and music lessons are within 10 minutes of our house. We occasionally have away games or 4-H meetings that are about a half-hour away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juniper Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 Everything for us is 45min to 1hr each way. Track is 1hr, co-op is 45 min., foreign language is 45 min the opposite way from co-op. We just double up trips and I make sure I do my shopping on the same days. Okay 4h is local, but our group was horrible so we have stepped down for the rest of the year. :glare: Often times dh drives an hour to work, an hour home, and then an hour back out to track and vespers and then an hour home. He has a little car that gets 40mpg, so if we all do not have to go that is how we work it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 For us, it varies from week to week and month to month. This past school year, my son consistently had: - choir rehearsals once or twice a week, 10 minutes from the house. - choir performances once or twice a month, anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour from the house. - tap class once a week, 30 minutes from the house. - voice lesson once a week, 30 minutes from the house. - robotics club once a week (fall only), 30 minutes from the house. He also did five shows, each of which rehearsed anywhere from one to five times per week. The theatres and rehearsal spaces for those were as close as 15 minutes from the house to as far away as 45 minutes from the house. It was not unusual for him to have classes and/or rehearsals "stacked" on top of each other, as many as three activities in different places on a single day. Sometimes, that required driving 30 minutes in one direction, then an hour in another and then 45 minutes home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 While the distance for many things is further here, the drive is faster than when we lived in Northern VA. Anyway, the co-op will be the furthest- about 30 minutes or so. Trumpet lessons are 10 minutes, Venture scouts also ten minutes, Science team- maybe 20 minutes. She had closer homeschool classes last year than the co-op but much preferred the co-op model and so we are doing that this year. I hope to have her driving by Jan and get her a car so she can do the drive herself. I am not looking forward to two hours travel on Fridays- there and back in the morning and then the same in the afternoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lolly Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 1 hour each way for swimming. That is twice a day several days in the summer. My girls only do the twice a day once a week during school (they do the other twice a day by doing one practice closer to home on their own). Everything else is about 5 minutes. 10 tops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 How far do you travel for practice, music lessons, classes, etc? Out here the minimum is 20 minutes, not this current year but last year we drove 45 minutes for violin. Next year maybe driving 45 minutes if I can get dd a spot at the horseriding (I have heard they sometimes are willing to exchange work hours for lowered fees so have to see). We drive 1 hour for our volunteer location. Field trips which usually are actually 1-2 day classes we apparently drive upto 5 hours each way, but those are not like weekly classes of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma23peas Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 15-25 hours of driving a week most the year. Mine are older, they love it and gives them great discipline and chance for scholarships...not so sure I would drive that far for community soccer for a five year old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer in MI Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 Depends on the activity. Here are things we are involved in: piano - he walks, 1x/week, school year karate - they walk, 4x/week, year round Little League baseball - 1 mile, spring - 3 - 5 x/week Travel baseball - practice field 15 min. Games - up to 2 hours away. Spring/summer. Violin - 20 minutes each way, 2x/week, school year gymnastics - 25 min each way, 3x/week, year-round Boy scouts - he walks, 1x/week Rowing - 20 minutes each way, 5x/week in the summer (we carpool) Both my oldest boys have jobs within a mile, so they walk I think that's it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah CB Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 We drive an hour away (so two hours round trip) for music lessons twice a week. The kids compete in music festivals in the spring - usually three or four different ones and they're anywhere from 20 minutes to 2.5 hours away. This year ds (12) also made it to provincials and that was about a 7 hour drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel in FL Posted June 24, 2012 Author Share Posted June 24, 2012 Thanks for the replies. I'm looking at switching gyms for my daughter. I currently drive about 20 minutes each way and we would be driving about an hour each way to the new one. She goes at least twice a week. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't crazy. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaT Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 Because of where we live we need to drive about 30-35 minutes to get to most of our activities. It feels excessive and gets old but we really just can't afford to move. On the flip side we live just 10 minutes from dh's work. I have to remind myself that many people commute 30 minutes to work everyday. If we moved to the town all our activities are in he would have the same commute every day. I'll feel better if a bunch of people respond saying that they travel 30 minutes for activities regularly :tongue_smilie: 40 minutes there, 40 minutes home every day. Does that make you feel good? :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenaj Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 For my highschoolers, we drive 40 minutes each way, for basketball and soccer practices and games. That means at least five times a week from the beginning of August through the end of February :) It's not the drive that bothers me as much as the two hour wait (during practices) once I get there - I was spoiled last year as my oldest son was able to drive and take his younger brother with him . . .this year the eldest will be heading to college so I get chauffering duty again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catz Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 5 to 20 minutes driving generally, but can be 30 (or a little more) in some traffic conditions. Everything is within 15 miles though. It's a big part of the reason we live where we do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim in Appalachia Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 1 hour. We travel just under an hour for swimming, and a little over an hour for violin lessons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 We always lived in large cities in California, where it took at least 20-30 minutes to drive almost anywhere, so keep that in mind.:-) Dance classes, which were always once a week for an hour, were on the other side of town, and not right off the freeway, so I left the house at least 30 minutes before classes started. Highland dance competitions were almost always out of town; in the summer, that mean multiple out-of-town trips during the summer, from April through September, including Corta Madera, Costa Mesa, Sacramento, Fresno, and Modesto. One Highland games was in town, another was just 40 miles away. Once we went to Seattle. :-) In the winter, there were three indoor competitions, somewhere between San Jose and Sacramento. Dd did Highland dance for 9 years. Older dd was in a marching band one year (color guard); practices were 20 miles away on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday; after January there was a weekend-long band camp every month until school was out, and then each section added a practice each week. There were two 10-day trips, one to Seattle, one to Southern California. That 20-mile trip took at least 45 minutes, as we had to travel the freeway during rush-hour traffic to be there at 6 (practice was over at 9). Happily, she only did that for one year. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Rebecca just joined the competitive gymnastics team at a larger gym in Nashville. We drive 40 minutes one way, three times a week. We put Sylvia in that gym too, at a noncompetitive level. We previously were driving about 5 minutes to their gym, so this is a big change. AHG is about 10 minutes away. Choir, 10. We're dropping co-op this year, but that was 40 minutes one way too. When they did soccer (they didn't have a session this spring, hoping they start it up again next year), that was about 20 minutes away. We live in a small town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momma_Bear Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Everything except travel teams are no more than 30 minutes top and that's because we live on the outskirts of town. However my kids are on a lot of different travel teams and have competitions we have to travel for. We can easily have to travel 3-5 hours regularly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer in MI Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Thanks for the replies. I'm looking at switching gyms for my daughter. I currently drive about 20 minutes each way and we would be driving about an hour each way to the new one. She goes at least twice a week. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't crazy. :D Not crazy. But, it's a huge difference! If she gets really competitive (I'm assuming it's gymnastics) she'd be going 4 - 5 times/week. Are you ready for that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel in FL Posted June 25, 2012 Author Share Posted June 25, 2012 Not crazy. But, it's a huge difference! If she gets really competitive (I'm assuming it's gymnastics) she'd be going 4 - 5 times/week. Are you ready for that? It is cheer, not gymnastics, so she wouldn't have to go that much. If she needs another day she can do a private lesson closer to home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donna Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 All times are one way travel...We travel 45 min for violin lessons 1X/week, 20 min for violin practice 1X/week, and 1 hour 15 min for orchestra once a week. We travel 2.5 hours for Irish fiddle lessons twice a month and various distances for concerts, gigs, and Irish sessions fairly regularly. This summer I am driving an hour every day for 2 weeks for violin camp, 10 hours for fiddle camp, and to Ireland for fiddle competition. Yeah, I put a lot of miles on a car. (over 43,000 miles in 16 months) I won't even go into all the miles we do for wrestling...though that has eased up a little now that oldest is in high school and most of his practice is through the school during wrestling season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer in MI Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 It is cheer, not gymnastics, so she wouldn't have to go that much. If she needs another day she can do a private lesson closer to home. :thumbup: Awesome!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joani Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Cheerleading is also our farthest drive, but it's only about minutes away and she goes 2-3 times per week. Swimming, track, gymastics, baseball, soccer, etc. practices are all within 20 minutes. Games and tournaments can be a lot farther. If she's the only child at home, the practice times are good and it's not stopping you from doing other things, an hour doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairProspects Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Piano lessons are 5 min. away. Tae Kwon Do studio is 10-15 min. away. Swimming lessons are 40 min. away (very few pools in such a rainy region). Computer/Robotics classes are 45 min. away, but are only once a week, so I put up with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zimom Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Practices aren't too bad: 20 minutes each way 4x a week and only 2 hours each way once a month, it's the competition/events that get us. My daughter is involved in disabled/adaptive sports and they are few and far between. Over the last year or so: Regular swim meets: 1-2 hours each way, usually monthly Adaptive swim meets and other disability events: driving 6-10 hours each way times two plus two different trips involving flights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatherwith4 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 We travel 20-30 minutes for almost everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfunnybunch Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Choir: 10 minutes. We could ride the city bus (25 minutes) but we don't get home in time for dinner. Guitar: Ditto. Swimming: <5 minutes, as we go to the neighborhood pool. Piano: 15 minutes. Used to be 30, but the piano teacher moved her studio back into town because she was having a hard time getting new students to drive out into the country. Karate: 5 minutes. It's close enough that the boys could bike there in 15-20 minutes, as soon as ds7 learns to ride a bike well enough. We purposely chose activities nearby to cut down on gas, and so that we can ride bikes as soon as the boys are all aware enough/stable enough on their bikes to ride in fairly heavy traffic (with bike lanes, but still, some drivers are kind of crazy). Cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelaNYC Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Dd(15) has been a competitive dancer since she was 7. Regular practices are always in the range of 15-20 minutes away (less than 5 miles). Workshops, master classes, and conventions are from 30 minutes to 2hrs away. Regional competitions are anywhere from 15 minutes to 2hrs away. National competitions can be anywhere from a 3-hr drive to a 5 hr plane ride. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 one thing about cheer, too-you might be able to take cheer at one gym, but do tumbling at a gymnastics gym. My DD takes tumbling 2x/week at a gymnastics gym which doesn't have a competitive cheer team, but practices with her cheer team. Since her cheer program doesn't have the tumble track and some of the other equipment that makes teaching the harder tumbling passes easier and safer, this is a better fit for DD, and is something her cheer coach not only approves of, but suggests if you can afford it financially. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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