Our summer month-long “trial run” is coming up in two months. I have been planning this trip for about five months. I just booked our last Airbnb and we are also staying with four different friends, one set of grandparents, camping three times, staying once in a tipi, once in an RV, a couple of fancy hotels, and once in someone’s spare room (for about the same price as a fancy hotel stay!- thanks Mariposa, CA in the summer). This trip will not be like our worldschooling year, hopefully. This trip is planned down to the restaurant. When we worldschool, I will be buying tickets at the last minute and we should have weeks to really get to know a city.
When Adam and I were in Maui a couple of years ago, the Airbnb owner told us about an app called Gypsy Guide that he suggested we use on the road to Hana. It was $5.00. You turn it on and go- it was like having a tour guide in the car with you. I found out that Gypsy Guide has a tour for Yellowstone, Yosemite, Glacier, the Grand Canyon, and the sea to sky highway in Vancouver to Whistler! I want this trip to be educational for the kids and I hope that having this tour guide in the car will help that happen.
I’m not going to lie, I’m worried about having Judah with us this summer. He has been the TWO-est of all of our children at age two. He is a ball of hitting, biting, crying, fitting, spitting, licking energy. He likes to relax, he likes to play, he likes to cuddle but if he’s not in the mood for those things, he can be insane. I have planned the trip so that we are stimulated pretty constantly with physical activity and I hope that keeps him busy so that when we have down time, or dinner at a nice restaurant, he will be chill.
In anticipation for our giant trip around the world, I have given notice at my job. I was offered a position at another hospital that is paying almost double. It is a commute, it is a lot more work but it will allow us to save so much more money for this trip which will give us a lot ore freedom and security while we are abroad. So, I took the plunge. Hopefully, it was the right decision!
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