January 28, 2026 • 18 mins
Show Notes: Worldschooling Q&A – Episode 19
Worldschooling Podcast Episode Title: Episode 19: How Do I Create a Flexible Travel Schedule That Supports Learning and Downtime?
Hosts: Astrid & Clint, creators of The Wandering Daughter
Episode Summary: In this episode of Worldschooling Q&A, Astrid and Clint explore how families can create flexible travel schedules that balance education, exploration, and much-needed downtime. Drawing from years of full-time travel, they share how over-scheduling can lead to burnout — and why slowing down often leads to deeper learning and better experiences for both kids and parents.
They discuss managing FOMO, identifying must-do activities, limiting daily plans, and intentionally scheduling chill days. You’ll also hear why communication within the family is essential and how slow travel opens the door to richer educational opportunities through museums, local life, and repeat experiences.
Whether you’re traveling short-term or worldschooling long-term, this episode will help you design a rhythm that works for your family — without exhaustion.
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Mentally, physically, eventuallyyour body's just going to be like,
I can't do another dayof walking or sightseeing
or whatever, and youdon't want that to happen.
This is world schooling q and a. I'mAstrid, creator of the wandering daughter.
As a traveling family,
(00:21):
we've spent four years travelingfull-time to over 18 countries and six
continents. Wherever we go,
we try to learn as much as we can aboutthe countries and cultures we visit.
While we didn't coin the term, welike to call this world schooling,
using the world as our classroom.
Each week my husband Clint and I willanswer one question about world schooling
(00:43):
and share our experiences of travelingthe world with our kids ready to get
started? Great. Let's dive in.
So today's question is,
how do I create a flexible travel schedulethat allows for both education and
(01:05):
downtime? Do you want to start?
Oh, sure. I think first of all, Ithink it's important to recognize,
at least for our family, and I'msure other families this way,
making sure you do this,
create a flexible travelplan that does both the
education, whether that'sactivities or something,
but also creating downtimeif you're unfamiliar with the concept of unschooling.
(01:29):
Unschooling talks a lot aboutalso finding that balance,
getting away from thestructured education mindset.
And so for us was reallytrying to identify how much
structured educational type of stuffwe were doing mixed with the downtime.
So I think one of the first thingsthat we always do when we get in a new
(01:50):
location is we usually do the researchourselves and sometimes we involve the
kids. It depends where we'reat, but identifying I think,
what must do activities we want to do,
and then making sure that we get thosemust do activities either on a list or on
the calendar so that thoseare already on the calendar
before we start anything else. Andwe actually have a physical calendar.
(02:14):
We have a dry erase calendar that we'vecreated, that we hang everywhere we go.
And.
So we'll write those upon the dates for that.
So I think just identifying those mustdo activities that way those won't get
missed.
And.
Then we can kind of fill in fromthere. So what's another thing?
Yeah, well,
I want to expand on that a little bitbecause I think it is so important to
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be able to prioritize the activities.I think we have as travelers,
a lot of us have a bad caseof fomo, fear of missing out,
and so when we get someplace newor I want to do everything there
is to do in this destination,that happens to me all the time.
Clint can attest to that, butthere's also another part.
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Doing that all the time canget exhausting and it can get,
it's not sustainable mentally, physically,
eventually your body'sjust going to be like,
I can't do another day ofwalking or sightseeing or
whatever. And you don'twant that to happen.
You don't want to do thatfor your world schooling,
(03:22):
especially if you're world schooling.
So having intentionallybuilding in downtime,
that's why it's so important.
And that's why we as a family will
not only are we going to sit down and
we're going to sit down and pick out thethings that are most important to us to
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do and say,
it's okay if I don't see we're in Paris.
It's okay if I don't see the EiffelTower. It's not a priority to me.
It's not a priority for Clint or the kids.
We don't need to see it justbecause somebody else says that.
That's a must do activity for you to do.
So the must dos are thingsthat are personal for us.
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And then just as important ispicking out days where this is the
day of the week that we'reintentionally not doing anything.
I think it helps setexpectations for the kids.
Our kids really need to know what iscoming up and what's the expectation
because they make plans themselves.
They plan on doing specific activityor maybe our daughter, for example,
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plans on talking to one of herfriends or something like that.
So they need that plan up front as well.
I think the other thing I wasgoing to say about the FOMO bit is
once you reach a certainthreshold, I mean adults too,
but I think adults we tend tosuppress a little bit, but kids,
they reach a certain threshold,
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they're not going to rememberanything else beyond that threshold.
So if you've already gone to aton of museums, it doesn't matter.
If it's the coolest museum in the worldand they've been excited to see it,
if they've reached that threshold,they're not going to receive it. So.
I.
Think that's important. Sowhat's one way that we do that,
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other than putting the must dos onthe activity, what's on the calendar?
What's the main thing that wedo? I think once we've done that.
Well, I mean,
I guess a thing that we do is kind ofrelated to putting things on the calendar,
just not overscheduling ourselves
one activity a day or one thing per day.
And sometimes that one thing is we'rejust going to eat at a restaurant
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and that's.
It. Oftentimes restaurants get kind of.
Lumped into just the daily.
An extra thing.
Or it's like we're going to goto this park and play at the park
and that's the thing. Or we'regoing to go to the beach.
And then sometimes it iswhen we were in England,
in London, for instance,
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going to a museum and on the waythere's a park that we can walk through.
But the main activity was themuseum or the main activity was
the theater or something.
Yeah.
What would you say? Whatwould you add to that?
I mean, I would say thatsometimes we do have fast travel,
even in between the slow traveldays and in the fast travel times,
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we do tend to put more thingsinto the calendar to try to
do some more things.
I think the way we balance it at thatpoint is we recognize that that's going to
be the case for that week,
and then we try to make up for it theweek after and really kind of be chill.
I mean, there was timesin Mexico, for example,
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when we were staying a couple months inMexico where if we had one week that we
knew it was just packed,
we were doing a lot of thingsfor one reason or another.
Maybe there's people visiting. Oh, forexample, when we were in Indonesia,
we had friends come visit us in Indonesiaand they were only there for a short
period of time, like a week.
So we purposely packed a bunchof things into that week,
(07:06):
but then after they left,we were really chill. We.
Didn't.
Do hardly anything. Well.
In fact, I think we went to my aunt'shouse and just stayed at her house for.
Several few days.
Few days.
Days. We were just.
On det leave or doing anything.
Swimming stuff.
So you have to really balance thosethings out and be mindful or be aware of
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how your family is feeling. This iswhere communication is important.
You should be able to express your ownneeds and also encourage your kids to
express their needs too withoutfeeling like they're going to be judged
for it or anything like that.
Yeah, I think, and that goes viceversa. It goes if they're feeling tired,
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making sure that they're able to expressthat and that they need downtime.
But also I think both of uskind of take turns doing this.
We both get restlessif we're in the house,
if we're kind of chillingout for too long,
we also get restless and want to godo things. So then identifying, well,
maybe only part of the familygoes or maybe just go solo.
Sometimes I'll go to a coffee shop, Ijust want to go explore the neighborhoods.
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I'll go walk down to a coffeeshop or something like that.
So I think identifying both chillout and feeling restlessness.
But speaking of chill, I think just makingsure you schedule and chill out days.
So I was talking about with fast travel,if we're going to be busy for a week,
we will purposely put iton the calendar. I mean,
literally we'll write aline item of chill out days.
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Or.
If we know we're going to museum thisday, the next day we'll just say,
we'll block it off. It's like achill out day. That's really helpful.
And our family actuallyreally looks forward to it.
Our kids ask when the daysare, so it's good downtime.
We try and schedule itat least once a week.
How do you go about choosing thetypes of activities that we do
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or the things that we doat a destination? I think.
We try to have variety. I feellike when we look at activities,
so say for example, weget to a new destination,
we kind of brainstorm together. We'llresearch what's available to do,
what are all the different things,
and we break it up inall sorts of categories.
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There are museum trips, for example,
because we don't want to do toomany of one thing to together.
So we don't want to go tomuseum 10 days in a row, or.
Even though I would get boredwith that, and I love museums.
Exactly. It's just, it's overstimulation.
We also don't want to go do a physicalactivity multiple times in a week.
We know we're going to beexhausted on the same note.
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We don't want do too expensive ofan activity multiple days in a row.
Then that starts toeat away at our budget.
So I think the big thing we do is
make that list of activities andthen start to categorize it of
how expensive is it going to be,
and then also is this a physicalactivity or highly museum where it's
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intellectually stimulating andthen try to just break those up
throughout the month. Sometimes you can't.
But.
That's what we try to do. How about you?
Yeah, I agree.
I think the other thing is I likeusing Google Maps or just the map,
a map app on my phone becausesometimes when I research things,
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I'll look it up on blog posts and things,
but sometimes just seeing what'saround within the immediate
vicinity, walking distance,
you find some unique local things that
you probably wouldn't find in somethinglike Guidebook or something like that.
Mexico City is a great example becauseMexico City has the most museums per
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capita or something.
So you literally just opened the mapand there's museums all around you.
Well, New York City is the same way.
Where we were when we werestaying in Brooklyn for a month,
there was all these little parksaround, not just Prospect Park,
but Little Parks Little, we likedgoing to cafes and stuff too,
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or we were staying near the Children'sMuseum, which was actually pretty cool.
So yeah,
just that's kind of part ofpretending like you're living there is
utilizing local stuff.
I think it's cool too. I thinkof when we were in Tokyo as well,
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and we had all our outingsthat we'd go out and do.
But.
Then we'd pass by this onerestaurant every single time.
And finally we were like,
and there was literally around thecorner from where we were staying.
And.
Then we decided to eat thereone time and it was great.
It was like a type of meal we had noteaten before. And so we ate there.
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It strangely disappeared afterthat, but that's another story.
But the other thing was there was cento,
a bath that was near our place too.
And so that's another categorykind of as an adult only
thing for date nights. And so.
Luckily.
Our kids are a little bit older,or if we're staying with friends,
we can do that, but that'sanother way we do that.
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Let's talk a little bit aboutslowing down your travels.
You had mentioned fasttravels and having activities.
What might be some benefits of
having a slower pace in travel,
staying in a destination for alonger period of time than just a
week?
Yeah. I think one of the coolestthings that we discovered,
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I guess we kind of already knew this,this happens even in the United States,
is a lot of museums willdo multi-day passes.
Obviously you can buy annual passes orthings like that, but even beyond that,
we were in England, forexample, in Birmingham area,
and there's the Black Country Museum,
which is an outdoor kind ofliving museum, like a little town,
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and you go, and thenwhen you buy your ticket,
and I don't know if this wasjust a promo for the time,
but when we bought our ticket there,
you can come for a second day forhalf off or free or something.
Yeah, I think it was free.
I think it was free. You basicallyget a second day at the museum.
Free and you can use it.It expires within a year.
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So because we were there for.
Three weeks.
For three weeks, wewere like, we have time.
So we didn't go immediately thatweek. I think we went a week after.
So.
We were still able to do theother things that we wanted to do,
but then we were able to go back.
So then we also didn't feel pressed tobe there all day. And this can play.
We've done this with Disneyland,for example. Granted,
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Disneyland multi-day passesare extremely expensive,
but it is the same mentality, right?
Then you don't have to justphysically exhaust yourself to
do something all day long.
And.
Break that up. What's anotherexample of that where multi-day.
Well,
I think about when we stayed in the
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Parma region in Italy,
they have all these really cool littlefood museums scattered throughout
the towns around the region,
and they're like small one roomsize museum, so it's not very big.
But each museum is specificto a type of food, ham,
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Parmesan cheese, tomatoes, pasta,
the cuisine of Italy and sausage.
Yeah.
Sausage wine. So we wentto the tomato museum first.
I was like, oh, there's a tomatomuseum. How random is that?
I saw that on the map, and I waslike, let's go to the Tomato Museum.
And when we got there and we werebuying the tickets, they're like, well,
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you can get
a museum pass or a passfor all seven museums.
I think there was sevenor something like that.
And you just have to use it withina year. And we're like, well,
we're here for a month.
Let's go with that instead of justbuying the one ticket for each museum.
And that gave us an opportunity to,
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not only did it allow us to doroad trips around the region,
which we loved,
but it also gave us smallbits of educational,
small bursts of educational momentsbecause each museum was just packed with
information about thatone specific type of food.
And then we'd go home and then we'd tryand eat the food that we just learned
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about. And yeah, it wasnice. That was a fun way.
So wherever you go try and see,especially if you're slow traveling,
try and see if they're places,
offer multi-day passesthat can be spread out
throughout your time there.
And that gives the kids a chanceto go back to feel like there's a
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little bit of routine too, orthings that are a little familiar.
And I think that speaks to the,
especially the par one speaks reallyto the slow travel aspect. One,
I don't think we would've foundthat tomato museum if we just hadn't
been there for longer and trying tofind things within the region to do.
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And.
Then secondly,
I don't think even if we had foundthe Tomato Museum online somewhere,
I don't think we would've realized orseen that we could have done a multi-day
pass. So just the fact that wewere there longer and slower,
we were able to take advantage ofsome of the things that you would take
advantage of if you wereliving in that region,
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or at least we would if we wereliving at that region. Cool.
One of the things I like to have onmy site are itineraries of the places
that we visited. So if
you happen to be in a placethat I've written about,
you can check out some of theitineraries. I do put the museums in the,
I have a Parma itinerary.
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I think I have some Costa Ricaand Indonesia, Jakarta ones.
So yeah,
feel free to peruse my website forany of those itineraries and don't
feel pressured to do everything there.
We spent a long time in this destinations.
That's why we were able to doall those activities. Cool.
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Anything else?
No.
I think that's it. Okay.Well, that's all for today.
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and Clint.
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Until next time, happy travels. Bye.
Mentally, physically, eventuallyyour body's just going to be like,
I can't do another dayof walking or sightseeing
or whatever, and youdon't want that to happen.
This is world schooling q and a. I'mAstrid, creator of the wandering daughter.
As a traveling family,
(00:21):
we've spent four years travelingfull-time to over 18 countries and six
continents. Wherever we go,
we try to learn as much as we can aboutthe countries and cultures we visit.
While we didn't coin the term, welike to call this world schooling,
using the world as our classroom.
Each week my husband Clint and I willanswer one question about world schooling
(00:43):
and share our experiences of travelingthe world with our kids ready to get
started? Great. Let's dive in.
So today's question is,
how do I create a flexible travel schedulethat allows for both education and
(01:05):
downtime? Do you want to start?
Oh, sure. I think first of all, Ithink it's important to recognize,
at least for our family, and I'msure other families this way,
making sure you do this,
create a flexible travelplan that does both the
education, whether that'sactivities or something,
but also creating downtimeif you're unfamiliar with the concept of unschooling.
(01:29):
Unschooling talks a lot aboutalso finding that balance,
getting away from thestructured education mindset.
And so for us was reallytrying to identify how much
structured educational type of stuffwe were doing mixed with the downtime.
So I think one of the first thingsthat we always do when we get in a new
(01:50):
location is we usually do the researchourselves and sometimes we involve the
kids. It depends where we'reat, but identifying I think,
what must do activities we want to do,
and then making sure that we get thosemust do activities either on a list or on
the calendar so that thoseare already on the calendar
before we start anything else. Andwe actually have a physical calendar.
(02:14):
We have a dry erase calendar that we'vecreated, that we hang everywhere we go.
And.
So we'll write those upon the dates for that.
So I think just identifying those mustdo activities that way those won't get
missed.
And.
Then we can kind of fill in fromthere. So what's another thing?
Yeah, well,
I want to expand on that a little bitbecause I think it is so important to
(02:37):
be able to prioritize the activities.I think we have as travelers,
a lot of us have a bad caseof fomo, fear of missing out,
and so when we get someplace newor I want to do everything there
is to do in this destination,that happens to me all the time.
Clint can attest to that, butthere's also another part.
(03:00):
Doing that all the time canget exhausting and it can get,
it's not sustainable mentally, physically,
eventually your body'sjust going to be like,
I can't do another day ofwalking or sightseeing or
whatever. And you don'twant that to happen.
You don't want to do thatfor your world schooling,
(03:22):
especially if you're world schooling.
So having intentionallybuilding in downtime,
that's why it's so important.
And that's why we as a family will
not only are we going to sit down and
we're going to sit down and pick out thethings that are most important to us to
(03:45):
do and say,
it's okay if I don't see we're in Paris.
It's okay if I don't see the EiffelTower. It's not a priority to me.
It's not a priority for Clint or the kids.
We don't need to see it justbecause somebody else says that.
That's a must do activity for you to do.
So the must dos are thingsthat are personal for us.
(04:08):
And then just as important ispicking out days where this is the
day of the week that we'reintentionally not doing anything.
I think it helps setexpectations for the kids.
Our kids really need to know what iscoming up and what's the expectation
because they make plans themselves.
They plan on doing specific activityor maybe our daughter, for example,
(04:32):
plans on talking to one of herfriends or something like that.
So they need that plan up front as well.
I think the other thing I wasgoing to say about the FOMO bit is
once you reach a certainthreshold, I mean adults too,
but I think adults we tend tosuppress a little bit, but kids,
they reach a certain threshold,
(04:52):
they're not going to rememberanything else beyond that threshold.
So if you've already gone to aton of museums, it doesn't matter.
If it's the coolest museum in the worldand they've been excited to see it,
if they've reached that threshold,they're not going to receive it. So.
I.
Think that's important. Sowhat's one way that we do that,
(05:13):
other than putting the must dos onthe activity, what's on the calendar?
What's the main thing that wedo? I think once we've done that.
Well, I mean,
I guess a thing that we do is kind ofrelated to putting things on the calendar,
just not overscheduling ourselves
one activity a day or one thing per day.
And sometimes that one thing is we'rejust going to eat at a restaurant
(05:38):
and that's.
It. Oftentimes restaurants get kind of.
Lumped into just the daily.
An extra thing.
Or it's like we're going to goto this park and play at the park
and that's the thing. Or we'regoing to go to the beach.
And then sometimes it iswhen we were in England,
in London, for instance,
(06:00):
going to a museum and on the waythere's a park that we can walk through.
But the main activity was themuseum or the main activity was
the theater or something.
Yeah.
What would you say? Whatwould you add to that?
I mean, I would say thatsometimes we do have fast travel,
even in between the slow traveldays and in the fast travel times,
(06:24):
we do tend to put more thingsinto the calendar to try to
do some more things.
I think the way we balance it at thatpoint is we recognize that that's going to
be the case for that week,
and then we try to make up for it theweek after and really kind of be chill.
I mean, there was timesin Mexico, for example,
(06:44):
when we were staying a couple months inMexico where if we had one week that we
knew it was just packed,
we were doing a lot of thingsfor one reason or another.
Maybe there's people visiting. Oh, forexample, when we were in Indonesia,
we had friends come visit us in Indonesiaand they were only there for a short
period of time, like a week.
So we purposely packed a bunchof things into that week,
(07:06):
but then after they left,we were really chill. We.
Didn't.
Do hardly anything. Well.
In fact, I think we went to my aunt'shouse and just stayed at her house for.
Several few days.
Few days.
Days. We were just.
On det leave or doing anything.
Swimming stuff.
So you have to really balance thosethings out and be mindful or be aware of
(07:27):
how your family is feeling. This iswhere communication is important.
You should be able to express your ownneeds and also encourage your kids to
express their needs too withoutfeeling like they're going to be judged
for it or anything like that.
Yeah, I think, and that goes viceversa. It goes if they're feeling tired,
(07:49):
making sure that they're able to expressthat and that they need downtime.
But also I think both of uskind of take turns doing this.
We both get restlessif we're in the house,
if we're kind of chillingout for too long,
we also get restless and want to godo things. So then identifying, well,
maybe only part of the familygoes or maybe just go solo.
Sometimes I'll go to a coffee shop, Ijust want to go explore the neighborhoods.
(08:12):
I'll go walk down to a coffeeshop or something like that.
So I think identifying both chillout and feeling restlessness.
But speaking of chill, I think just makingsure you schedule and chill out days.
So I was talking about with fast travel,if we're going to be busy for a week,
we will purposely put iton the calendar. I mean,
literally we'll write aline item of chill out days.
(08:35):
Or.
If we know we're going to museum thisday, the next day we'll just say,
we'll block it off. It's like achill out day. That's really helpful.
And our family actuallyreally looks forward to it.
Our kids ask when the daysare, so it's good downtime.
We try and schedule itat least once a week.
How do you go about choosing thetypes of activities that we do
(08:59):
or the things that we doat a destination? I think.
We try to have variety. I feellike when we look at activities,
so say for example, weget to a new destination,
we kind of brainstorm together. We'llresearch what's available to do,
what are all the different things,
and we break it up inall sorts of categories.
(09:22):
There are museum trips, for example,
because we don't want to do toomany of one thing to together.
So we don't want to go tomuseum 10 days in a row, or.
Even though I would get boredwith that, and I love museums.
Exactly. It's just, it's overstimulation.
We also don't want to go do a physicalactivity multiple times in a week.
We know we're going to beexhausted on the same note.
(09:47):
We don't want do too expensive ofan activity multiple days in a row.
Then that starts toeat away at our budget.
So I think the big thing we do is
make that list of activities andthen start to categorize it of
how expensive is it going to be,
and then also is this a physicalactivity or highly museum where it's
(10:08):
intellectually stimulating andthen try to just break those up
throughout the month. Sometimes you can't.
But.
That's what we try to do. How about you?
Yeah, I agree.
I think the other thing is I likeusing Google Maps or just the map,
a map app on my phone becausesometimes when I research things,
(10:30):
I'll look it up on blog posts and things,
but sometimes just seeing what'saround within the immediate
vicinity, walking distance,
you find some unique local things that
you probably wouldn't find in somethinglike Guidebook or something like that.
Mexico City is a great example becauseMexico City has the most museums per
(10:54):
capita or something.
So you literally just opened the mapand there's museums all around you.
Well, New York City is the same way.
Where we were when we werestaying in Brooklyn for a month,
there was all these little parksaround, not just Prospect Park,
but Little Parks Little, we likedgoing to cafes and stuff too,
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or we were staying near the Children'sMuseum, which was actually pretty cool.
So yeah,
just that's kind of part ofpretending like you're living there is
utilizing local stuff.
I think it's cool too. I thinkof when we were in Tokyo as well,
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and we had all our outingsthat we'd go out and do.
But.
Then we'd pass by this onerestaurant every single time.
And finally we were like,
and there was literally around thecorner from where we were staying.
And.
Then we decided to eat thereone time and it was great.
It was like a type of meal we had noteaten before. And so we ate there.
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It strangely disappeared afterthat, but that's another story.
But the other thing was there was cento,
a bath that was near our place too.
And so that's another categorykind of as an adult only
thing for date nights. And so.
Luckily.
Our kids are a little bit older,or if we're staying with friends,
we can do that, but that'sanother way we do that.
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Let's talk a little bit aboutslowing down your travels.
You had mentioned fasttravels and having activities.
What might be some benefits of
having a slower pace in travel,
staying in a destination for alonger period of time than just a
week?
Yeah. I think one of the coolestthings that we discovered,
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I guess we kind of already knew this,this happens even in the United States,
is a lot of museums willdo multi-day passes.
Obviously you can buy annual passes orthings like that, but even beyond that,
we were in England, forexample, in Birmingham area,
and there's the Black Country Museum,
which is an outdoor kind ofliving museum, like a little town,
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and you go, and thenwhen you buy your ticket,
and I don't know if this wasjust a promo for the time,
but when we bought our ticket there,
you can come for a second day forhalf off or free or something.
Yeah, I think it was free.
I think it was free. You basicallyget a second day at the museum.
Free and you can use it.It expires within a year.
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So because we were there for.
Three weeks.
For three weeks, wewere like, we have time.
So we didn't go immediately thatweek. I think we went a week after.
So.
We were still able to do theother things that we wanted to do,
but then we were able to go back.
So then we also didn't feel pressed tobe there all day. And this can play.
We've done this with Disneyland,for example. Granted,
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Disneyland multi-day passesare extremely expensive,
but it is the same mentality, right?
Then you don't have to justphysically exhaust yourself to
do something all day long.
And.
Break that up. What's anotherexample of that where multi-day.
Well,
I think about when we stayed in the
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Parma region in Italy,
they have all these really cool littlefood museums scattered throughout
the towns around the region,
and they're like small one roomsize museum, so it's not very big.
But each museum is specificto a type of food, ham,
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Parmesan cheese, tomatoes, pasta,
the cuisine of Italy and sausage.
Yeah.
Sausage wine. So we wentto the tomato museum first.
I was like, oh, there's a tomatomuseum. How random is that?
I saw that on the map, and I waslike, let's go to the Tomato Museum.
And when we got there and we werebuying the tickets, they're like, well,
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you can get
a museum pass or a passfor all seven museums.
I think there was sevenor something like that.
And you just have to use it withina year. And we're like, well,
we're here for a month.
Let's go with that instead of justbuying the one ticket for each museum.
And that gave us an opportunity to,
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not only did it allow us to doroad trips around the region,
which we loved,
but it also gave us smallbits of educational,
small bursts of educational momentsbecause each museum was just packed with
information about thatone specific type of food.
And then we'd go home and then we'd tryand eat the food that we just learned
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about. And yeah, it wasnice. That was a fun way.
So wherever you go try and see,especially if you're slow traveling,
try and see if they're places,
offer multi-day passesthat can be spread out
throughout your time there.
And that gives the kids a chanceto go back to feel like there's a
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little bit of routine too, orthings that are a little familiar.
And I think that speaks to the,
especially the par one speaks reallyto the slow travel aspect. One,
I don't think we would've foundthat tomato museum if we just hadn't
been there for longer and trying tofind things within the region to do.
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And.
Then secondly,
I don't think even if we had foundthe Tomato Museum online somewhere,
I don't think we would've realized orseen that we could have done a multi-day
pass. So just the fact that wewere there longer and slower,
we were able to take advantage ofsome of the things that you would take
advantage of if you wereliving in that region,
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or at least we would if we wereliving at that region. Cool.
One of the things I like to have onmy site are itineraries of the places
that we visited. So if
you happen to be in a placethat I've written about,
you can check out some of theitineraries. I do put the museums in the,
I have a Parma itinerary.
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I think I have some Costa Ricaand Indonesia, Jakarta ones.
So yeah,
feel free to peruse my website forany of those itineraries and don't
feel pressured to do everything there.
We spent a long time in this destinations.
That's why we were able to doall those activities. Cool.
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Anything else?
No.
I think that's it. Okay.Well, that's all for today.
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