Where are we going? And how did we decide our itinerary?
These are the most common questions we get asked when we tell people about our trip. We are going to: France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Japan, Indonesia and New Zealand. The why is a bit more complicated. I don’t know specifically why we picked all these countries. Some we have been to before, some our on our bucket list. Some are meaningful or just fit in nicely with our itinerary. Our initial plan was to pick one place in every country and settle in, live like locals and get to know the area well. Full disclosure, this is the first plan of ours that has gone up in smoke. We have succeeded at this in only one country, the first one, France. Ironically, the plan of one place per country was in order to facilitate homeschooling: less travelling means more time for learning. But once we started researching the places we wanted to go, we couldn’t decide on just one place! So our plans unravelled. And school won’t even be in session when we’re in France. We have made some attempts to spend...