I’ll admit that a trip 1.5 hours from home is a stretch to consider traveling, but this is what we are using to test things out and to gather ideas. Also, even a traveler needs to take a vacation once in a while. Let me break this down for you.
This trip was a short getaway for Valentines Day without any kids. We tried out our new suitcases, we tried out our new compression packs, we tried out the new toiletries bag, and most importantly for everyone here we tried out our Instagram account (BTW, thanks for the follow!).
We are going to be traveling partially for us but above all for our kids. That being said, we are going to be keeping this blog, as well as an Instagram account (and maybe a YouTube channel at a later date) so that all of our friends and family have an easy way to keep tabs on us. We are a very social media aware family so we wanted to take advantage of the time without kids to play with phone cameras, get the Instagram account set up so that everyone can see where we are and what we are doing, and to do some test shots to see what all we want to share. All of our stuff should be fun to do, and fun to follow, but not take over our entire lives and make everything more stressful. Life is all about balance after all.
I think it went really well and we are going to be going back soon with the kids to give them a vacation before we jump into finalizing everything for our journey. Bureaucracy makes everything more difficult than it needs to be so one last deep breath before we hit the hard stuff.
Stay tuned for some short reviews about our stuff. Stay tuned for the trip back to GaPa with the kids. Stay tuned for when we say goodbye to every day life and start checking out the world!
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