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    Fearless Families
    Fearless Families
    Fearless Families
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    Fearless Families

    By haleli smadar and Lucy Bryson

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    Hello dear families. 10 years of experience traveling full time, working remotely, raising three kids, schooling, making friends, making bad decisions, and having extraordinary adventures all wrapped in one in-depth guide.


    ~ All your travel questions answered – even the ones you never thought of.

    ~ Concise, practical information that cuts straight to the chase: no more getting lost in research rabbit holes.

    ~ Travel advice for all budgets

    Did you put your globetrotting dreams on hold when you started a family? Feel like there must be more to life than the school run and the 9-to-5 but feel tied to house and home? This book will show you how you can shake off doubts and set off to explore the world even with a young family.

    Writer and family travel consultant Haleli Smadar has been traveling the world with her three children for over a decade, and this book brings together her hard-earned advice and insights in a no-BS guide that will take the mystery out of parenting on the road.

    This is not your average family travel guide. It does not include roundups of zoos, theme parks, or all-inclusive resorts. Instead, it focuses on what you can do right now to overcome trepidation and start planning your dream trip, whatever your budget.

    Fearless Families is the ultimate guide for parents looking for long-haul track adventures with their brood: packed with expert advice on everything from planning your route and balancing, to the budget, to home schooling, overcoming homesickness and making friends on the road.

    Alongside insider tips, tricks, and amusing anecdotes about mishaps along the road; this concise, highly-readable guide includes example routes and trip planners for every budget.

    Among many other key insights, Fearless Families will show you :

    * How to plan your route and work out your budget

    * How to deal with practical issues such as schoolwork

    * How to be a responsible traveler and give back to the communities you visit

    * What to pack – and what you can leave at home

    * How to overcome trepidation and put your travel plans into practice

    * How to find the best places to eat (even for fussy eaters)

    * How to find suitable long-term and short-term accommodation

    * How to stay sane while traveling with babies, toddlers, teens, or tweens

    * How to establish a routine even while traveling.

    After a year in which the whole world put its travel plans on hold, this 2021 release will show families how they can travel the world in a safe, socially responsible, and planet-friendly fashion.
     

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherhaleli smadar
    Release dateAug 8, 2021
    ISBN9798201858605
    Fearless Families
    Author

    haleli smadar

    I'm an ordinary mother living an extraordinary life. A professional writer since the age of 18, I was living a regular suburban mom lifestyle in Israel until one day I realized I wanted more out of life: more adventure, more freedom, more passion...and less mundanity. So I decided to follow my dreams, take my kids, and breakaway.  I gave up on washing dishes and doing the laundry. I gave up on car-pools, tedious parents’ meetings, housework, fashion trends and daily checklists. I left my favorite boots behind, along with my most precious recipe book, and carried with me the weight of a thousand doubts. It was September 5th. I cried as the plane took off. We have been traveling the world for over 10 years, and I draw on my experiences to create stories of all kinds.  

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      Book preview

      Fearless Families - haleli smadar

      Fearless Families

      haleli smadar and Lucy Bryson

      Published by haleli smadar, 2021.

      Fearless families

      Practical steps for planning an extended family journey

      Haleli Smadar

      Copyright © 2020 by Haleli Smadar

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author.

      eBook Designed by Queekpub

      Table of Contents

      About us

      Beginning

      Chapter 1 - Money

      Chapter 2 - How to plan the ‘getaway’

      Chapter 3 - Traveling from place to place

      Chapter 4 - Transportation and traveling around

      Chapter 5 - Children and education

      Chapter 6 - Health

      Chapter 7 - Places to Stay

      Chapter 8 - Food

      Chapter 9 - Couples’ time and private time

      Chapter 10 - Photography and recording your trip

      Chapter 11 - Personal Safety

      Chapter 12 - How to save money while traveling

      Chapter 13 - Different Types of families

      Chapter 14 - Problems, mishaps, and bumps in the road

      Chapter 15 - Bureaucracy

      Chapter 16 - What to take

      Chapter 17 - How to Fund the Trip

      Chapter 18 - The beauty of real freedom

      Chapter 19 - Easy access Sheets

      The creators of this guide:

      Haleli Smadar- Writer:

      For over 10 years, Haleli Smadar, An Israeli writer, has been traveling the world full time with her three children. After a decade of taking the road less travelled, she has condensed her hard-earned travel advice into an invaluable guide that gives parents the insights and inspiration they need to begin their own travel adventures.

      Her Articles were published in The Huffington Post, culture trip, skyscanner, today.com, and others.

      Lucy Bryson -Translator and contributor:

      Lucy Bryson is a British writer (published in BBC Travel, Rough Guides, Vice, Atlas Obscura, Culture Trip, TimeOut, USA Today Travel and others) who moved to Portugal in 2015 living after alm in Brazil. A marathon runner and trail addict, she has traveled widely in South America and Europe with her young daughter Sofia.

      It’s 10.30 am. I'm sitting in my bedroom in the rented apartment I share with my two daughters in Pokhara, Nepal, and I’m sipping a strong black coffee. It’s the beginning of the monsoon season, and the weather is getting warmer.  

      Our mornings here begin slowly, not too early. 

      Through the window I can see the lake, and the water birds and sea anemone that adorn it.  

      On the far horizon, we can see the Himalayas. On clear days, snow-capped peaks emerge on the landscape, along with the famous Machhapuchhare,or Fishtail Mountain. The Nepalese consider it sacred and, unlike Everest, nobody has ever reached its summit. At my feet lies Leo, the neighbor's dog, who comes to visit me every morning. 

      It’s a far cry from my previous life of school runs and manic, pressurized days centered around the drudgery of the 9-5. And it’s a way of life I truly relish. 

      Giving up the day job and heading out into the great unknown: It’s something many of us dream of, but often abandon the idea once we become parents.  

      But I am living proof that long term travel with children is not only possible but can be wonderful.  

      How about you?  

      Have you decided that you are going on a long journey with the children? Or maybe you are still dreaming of such a trip and wondering if it's wise. Maybe you're pondering on whether this is the right time, or if you should wait a few more years. 

      You’ve come to the right place. I have been traveling, with three children, for more than a decade. 

      In this guide, I offer a practical, simple explanation of how I do it: day after day, month after month, year after year.  

      I offer travel consultancy services to families planning epic journeys abroad and know the questions and concerns that tend to crop up time and again. 

      I hope that by the time you reach the end of the guide I will have answered all your questions and concerns about taking the leap yourself.  

      Let's get started. 

      THE BIGGEST ADVENTURE YOU CAN EVER TAKE IS TO LIVE THE LIFE OF YOUR DREAMS 

      ~ OPRAH WINFREY

      About us

      I, Haleli Smadar, am a mother of three. I lived a perfectly ‘normal’ life until one day, in 2010, I decided that life was short and that I should live as I genuinely wanted to. l had been trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. All this nine-to-five just didn't suit me. I left my home country, Israel, at the age of 35, with the three young children, my husband, and the dog. My husband left after a year. And we continue until today, from a young age. The children were full partners to change this life, and so we went through a lot of amazing adventures together.

      Gali, my youngest left her home country at the age of 4. She's an explorer like me. She is happy to up sticks and go on every new adventure, without even blinking, as long as she has music to hear on the way., And when I asked her which place she loves most, she says that there is something she loves about every place she has been. She speaks four languages and is learning two more.

      My daughter Roni is my middle child and was eight when we left home. She’s my co-conspirator. She goes along with any crazy idea I have and is with me to the end even when the others are already tired. She will jump onto the water with me at every chance, climb mountains, and jump aboard trucks bound for the unknown. She already speaks four languages, and recently began to learn Russian just so we could go on a mother-daughter trip to Siberia and Mongolia.

      She has set up a program for helping the needy in Nepal, is currently studying college for an online college degree through the Internet and has a collection of selfies taken against incredible backdrops, and with fascinating people from all over the world.

      Yotam, my eldest son, was 11 years old when we left home, and today at age 21 is an independent young man, who continues to travel the world himself, with the occasional visit to see his sisters and me. He makes his own living online, loves to read, plays chess at a professional level, and practices virtually everything related to juggling, circus and fire. Before we left home, I was worried he would not be able to continue with his chess studies, because I thought he would have no one to play with. But we discovered the game is played all over the world and would help him to make friends in many countries, while gaining new skills on the chessboard.

      Let’s Begin at the Beginning

      Mental preparation

      This is undoubtedly the most important issue in everything related to making a dramatic lifestyle change such as this. can't change a routine without changing our way of thinking.

      So, long before I set off on my family journey, I went through a process of conceptual change.

      I realized that life was short and that all we had in fact was the ' now '.

      I realized that what makes me happy is to experience new things, meet new people. To taste new things and discover new ways of living. To learn, to experiment. And to move.

      I realized that what was important to me in the children's education was less about rote learning from textbooks, and more about experiences that would teach them about themselves. For them to mature, I wanted to give them the tools and security and the belief in themselves to go out and do whatever they wish.

      I realized that I had to detach myself from the culture of consumption and brainwashing that makes me feel all the time that I'm not enough (not beautiful enough, thin enough, fashionable and fragrant enough. Not a good enough cook, not wealthy enough…the list goes on.) I just had to stop for a moment and look at myself.

      I realized that I really, really didn't want to spend another year in transport and traffic and shopping and parents ' meetings and WhatsApp groups, and crowded days made up of nonsense; and washing dishes and doing laundry and looking for a parking space. Running from place to place, getting up in the morning and knowing exactly what my day would look like, to the minute. No room for spontaneity, air, malfunction. I could barely hear myself through all the blah blah around me.

      I realized I owed myself the change. So that I wouldn’t wake up one day and hear myself whispering: What an idiot. What was so important to you? What did you spend your life doing?

      In short, after I realized that some things were more important to me than school, living room cushions, and making the perfect dessert for the holiday dinner. I realized that getting out on the road and into the world was a necessity for me.

      → Here’s your first step: Think about what your day-to-day reality is at the moment, and what you would really like to be doing, starting right now.

      1. Overcoming Fear and Trepidation

      Even after I reached this life-changing conclusion, I still had many fears and worries. In fact, I assure you that all the concerns you have right now, I had too.

      What about school, healthcare, money? How will we get by? What if something happens to one of us? What about friends and family: how will we cope with missing everybody so much? How will the kids learn basic skills like riding a bike or swimming? And what about Yotam's chess studies?

      Conflicted, I ruminated on these concerns for a long time. I devoured all the information I could find on blogs written by people in far-flung places. I asked Google (a lot). On the rare occasions that, during my endless research, I discovered families that had returned from long journeys, I approached them directly for advice.

      I still couldn't get the answers I wanted. No one could promise me that everything was going to be okay, or that there was nothing to be afraid

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