Nine months on the road with a five-month-old baby and a twelve-year-old chihuahua is ambitious. Doing it after your carefully planned French long-stay visa is rejected two days before the flight is something else entirely.
In this week's episode, Tracy is joined by travel writer Riana Ang-Canning of Teaspoon of Adventure, freshly home in Vancouver after a slow travel adventure that took her family from Toronto to the Loire Valley, through London and Brighton, and on to Málaga for a first birthday in Spain. It is an honest, practical look at what long-term family travel really looks like day to day.
In this episode:
Riana's travel background and why long-term travel keeps calling her back
Deciding to travel during parental leave, older rescue dog included
Building a base-style route across Toronto, the Loire Valley, London, Brighton and Málaga
Working around a last-minute French visa rejection and the Schengen 90 day limit
The packing and logistics of nine months with a baby and a dog
How slow travel routines make a new place feel like home quickly
Finding baby-friendly and dog-friendly Airbnbs, and the hard lesson about stairs
Dividing the jobs on travel days to keep the stress down
What went wrong with the road trip and the electric hire car
Budget tips that genuinely help, including 28 day discounts and cooking at home
Letting go of the pressure to see everything and leaning into local life
What is next for the family, and where to follow Riana online
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