Before You Start Planning

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Here are the questions I ask myself before I even begin planning a trip in earnest:

• How is this like previous trips that we’ve taken
• How is it different
• What parts are likely to be hard
• What am I afraid of (e.g. flight duration, not speaking the language, medical care, etc)
• What do your children have a difficult time with, and in what ways might that make the trip difficult
• E.g. they really need their routine or they have a tough time sitting still

The goal here isn’t to be defeatist; it’s to have a concrete list of all the things that are stopping you from taking the trip you want to take so that you can focus on finding a way to address each one.