The plan: 12 countries in 12 months.
Scott Manning and his wife had been planning this trip for quite some time when they found out they were pregnant.
They went anyway.
The new plan: 12 countries in 12 months, with a baby.
Today Scott joins me to talk about some of the changes they made to their trip once they’d had Carter, the ups & downs of traveling with a baby, and how to establish a routine on the road.
We also chat about packing only in carry-on’s when you have an infant (see! It can be done!) and how they’ve dealt with criticisms of their choices so far.
Have you ever traveled with a baby? What are some of your best tips?
This is part one of a two-part interview with Scott Manning on traveling the world for a year with his wife and infant son. Click here to listen to part two!
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In This Episode:
- The decision to travel around the world.
- Where does pregnancy fit in?
- Planning a trip with an infant in mind.
- 2 people + 1 infant in all carry-on luggage.
- Cheaper to travel with an infant? Or stay at home?
- The biggest obstacles so far.
- Flying with a 7-month-old.
- Establishing routine on the road.
- The criticisms.
and much more!
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I have 3 girls, 4, 2, and 1 years old, and my wife is pregnant, we’ve randomly decided to move to Scotland here in a couple of months. It is going to be hard, but anything good in life is hard. I like hearing stories like this, even though they won’t remember it, us parents will.
@Jared- Wow! I’d love to hear more about your decision to move to Scotland…seems like an epic (and awesome) undertaking. It is funny that the kids might not remember it, but it’ll do more for their growth than you can really pinpoint.
Trav, It had to do with a few things, I got a remote web development job. We were going to move back from Seattle to my hometown to be closer to family.
So my wife and I just decided to maybe go on a week or two vacation overseas with the family before moving back, then thought of lugging around our 3 children to another foreign country and decided to just move to Scotland for 6 months. Just bought tickets to France, and hopefully moving there for a little bit after that, but the new baby would be a month old then, so, that’s still a big grey area.
“You guys are crazy”, Yes we are.
@choochoo545- It’s good to be crazy…and I love the “eh, we just decided to move for 6 months instead of a few weeks.” Perfect!
Jared, what an awesome decision! I deeply regret not making it to Scotland while we were in UK, because everything anyone has to say about the place is incredible. What a cool thing that will be for you and your family, and whether they individually remember the particular events or not matters less than the experience you’ll all have collectively together.
@Scott- I haven’t been to Scotland yet either…just another place to file away under “sometime…”
I’ve been following you for along time…and used your links. To repeat-The audible postings cannot be sufficiently understood or parts reviewed (reheard). I’ll be happy when I can read all of them.
@Jerry Mandel- I totally understand your concern, and we are actually now doing posts of some of the podcast that we release, specifically the “travel tips” ones like the current one on budget airlines. . At this time, though, we have no way of turning the interview podcasts in to posts. Sorry.