Planning a global family adventure is easier than organizing summer camps that coordinate your kid with their friends, interests, and your work schedule. I promise. We’ve mostly looked back at trips, but this time I am going to bring you along for the trip planning. Planning a trip can be even more exciting than going. I’ll write in several installments over the next year as we plan our trip.
Inspiring and Kid-Friendly Iceland Itinerary
Iceland often felt like a Willy Wonka adventure – chartreuse marshmallow moss; pots of smoky, boiling chocolate mud; tons of crackling ice; holes in the ground exploding with scalding water that turns to froth; and azure lakes with floating blue diamonds. With all these unbelievable sights and a culture of belief in fairies and elves, Iceland is a natural destination for families.
Paris Layover: Just a Pinch of Paris
We bookended our road trip through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro with a Paris layover. One really can’t complain about a day in the city on one end and two days on the other end so we could use our airline miles for three free tickets to Zagreb. Paris is a city that can take months to fully discover, but a few days was all we had so we made it work.
Our Oaxaca Reading List
In August we are headed to Oaxaca so we are busily reading books to build our Oaxaca reading list. We are taking Beija and her friend Pacifica on this trip. They’ll both be 12 when we set off and are great readers. They wrote some of the reviews for me – I am liking this approach! Our Oaxaca reading list has given me high anxiety about scorpions. We’ll see how it goes.
Morocco with Kids – A Lively, Delicious Route
We learned so much from our time in Morocco when Beija was 10. It was such a different culture and opened our eyes to new art, food, and social structures. I asked Beija what she liked most about Morocco and without hesitation she said, “camping in the desert, medinas, and the food.” So we’ll tell you how to get all that and more in the rest of this post.