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Travel Venture Four
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Hey Reader, One thing we thought would be easier when travelling through South America with kids… was learning Spanish. You hear it all the time. “Just being here, you’ll pick it up.” And to some extent, that’s true. But what we didn’t expect was how inconsistent it feels day-to-day. Some days you’re using it constantly. Other days, you fall back into English without really noticing. And progress feels… slow. We looked at a few different ways to improve it properly. Apps. Tutors. Courses....
Hey Reader, Six months into travelling through South America with kids, a few things have surprised us. Some of the things we worried about most before leaving turned out to be fairly manageable. Flights.Packing.Even schooling on the road. Those things found their rhythm faster than we expected. The parts we’d probably approach differently now are smaller, but they make a big difference once you’re actually travelling. We’d slow down even more. We’d spend more time choosing neighbourhoods...
Hey Reader, One of the least exciting parts of planning long-term travel is sorting out travel insurance. It’s not something you dream about when imagining new countries, markets, or mountain views. But once we started planning to travel through South America with kids, it quickly became one of the decisions we spent the most time thinking about. Not because we expected something to go wrong. But because travelling long-term changes the equation a bit. You’re moving between countries more...