No, that’s never been an issue Jeanette. But we are mindful of just chilling and giving them plenty of sleep, great food, they love their food and things that they enjoy doing. That includes being online as often as possible. We always make sure there is good free wifi at our accommodation. But they enjoy trekking in the Himalayas too, and that’s totally offline. One likes groups and other people, sometimes, so group tours, his volunteering, he likes to chat to cool people. And often it’s the simple things like a tuk tuk ride that they enjoy. Sometimes an amazing theme park, sometimes a huge buffet, just things they love. Also movies, we take them to see movies a lot in Asia, they love that. Treats, things for them, not things mum and dad enjoy on occasions that the two are different. But I think because mine started young and did it for so many years ( and now my son tells me he loved/loves the lifestyle) they just accepted it as normal. I really love the long travel days on buses, trains etc. The kids enjoy them too because they just chill and read or now, have their phones. They like flying days too, airports always mean junk food, planes ( on decent airlines – not budget – nobody likes budget) mean more food and movies. They detest cars. Cars are bad for my two, and boring, no other people, nothing weird happens. Best of luck.

We are taking our kids (soon 4 and 6 years) to Australia for 6 weeks. I have lived and travelled the whole country before, so I am quite familiar with all our destinations. We have pre-booked every accomodation, and we are mainly interested in just enjoying nature and living stress-free while on the road.
My question is: have you experienced your kids to be burned out from moving from place to place? We are staying for longer periods at the same place at the start, midle and end of the trip. In between these we are between 2,3 nights in each place + 3 single sleeps. My biggest concern is that the kids will not like moving around, and that they will get stressed from doing so.

I would really like to hear from your experience and thoughts. I could write more about our plan, but in short I have tried to make it as easy going as possible.

Regards Jeanette

I’d love to hear what you pick! There are so many awesome choices.

Thanks for your reply! We lived in Germany for 3 years and did a lot of quick fast paced traveling. It was somewhat exhausting and I don’t hinj my husband would be amenable to a year of that! We were thinking of Asia and Central/South America… still a lot to conquer in a year. I need to start really researching and making a list of must sees and then really want to sees :).

Hi there. There’s no reason that you have to do slow travel just because you have a toddler. It’s possible to go at a normal bckpacking sort of pace. The trouble with slow travel is you get a lot less travel for your dollar, fewer destinations, less experiences, but you will get to know small areas in some depth. I think slow travel is more for us on long term and full time trips because- I know you won’t think it now- a year is actually very little time to see much of the world. So really hone down on where you most want to be, what destinations you choose if you want to do it that way. What destinations were you thinking of picking?