The Warm Up

I am excited to announce that we have named our upcoming journey 'The Warm Up'. We are staying positive and presuming that travelling for 10 weeks with a baby and a three year old will only inspire us to go on a longer more adventurous trip in the future!

This is slightly to disguise the fear I have developed of not knowing how to cope with the following issues:
A) how to keep a baby cool outside, when it is not cool outside
B) how to go anywhere without a double pushchair and a 3 year old that is allergic to walking
C) children waking up at 6am, here or away this is an earthly hour
D) what to talk to my husband about when there are no household chores, internet surfing or other jobs to do in the evenings. (Perhaps this is what I'll talk to him about!)

So Team Geek is off to see what it's like to have two parents constantly on hand and to learn a little more about the world. The basic intinery is as follows:

Week 1) New York
Week 2+3) New England (upstate New York, Vermont & Boston)
Week 4+5) Aruba
Week 6) Florida
Week 7+8) Mexico
Week 9) Minnesota
Week 10) New York

Is this a stupid idea with two small children? Possibly, but at least we will find out. My integrity to my future self will be intact. I don't want to regret not having done it, and if it goes well we can go again (preferably to Thaliand, Vietnam the carribean , new zeland in a camper van and pacific islands) and if it doesn't work, at least when people ask we will be able to tell them a lot of stories which might be comical then, but will be enough to reason with ourselves not to go again.