Nine months on the road with a five-month-old baby and a twelve-year-old chihuahua is ambitious. Doing it after your carefully planned French long-stay visa is rejected two days before the flight is something else entirely.

In this week's episode, Tracy is joined by travel writer Riana Ang-Canning of Teaspoon of Adventure, freshly home in Vancouver after a slow travel adventure that took her family from Toronto to the Loire Valley, through London and Brighton, and on to Málaga for a first birthday in Spain. It is an honest, practical look at what long-term family travel really looks like day to day.

In this episode:

• Riana's travel background and why long-term travel keeps calling her back
• Deciding to travel during parental leave, older rescue dog included
• Building a base-style route across Toronto, the Loire Valley, London, Brighton and Málaga
• Working around a last-minute French visa rejection and the Schengen 90 day limit
• The packing and logistics of nine months with a baby and a dog
• How slow travel routines make a new place feel like home quickly
• Finding baby-friendly and dog-friendly Airbnbs, and the hard lesson about stairs
• Dividing the jobs on travel days to keep the stress down
• What went wrong with the road trip and the electric hire car
• Budget tips that genuinely help, including 28 day discounts and cooking at home
• Letting go of the pressure to see everything and leaning into local life
• What is next for the family, and where to follow Riana online

⭐️ Guest - Riana from teaspoonofadventure.com
📝 Full links and photos are in the show notes at globaltravelplanning.com/episode-100

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