This blog is a spinoff from my main blog, narrating kayoz. There I blog about life in general and my three children in particular. This blog is solely a travel blog. In it I hope to not only document my family’s travels for the sake of our own memories and as postcards to those back home, but to record some of the tips and tricks we discover (and no doubt massive mistakes we make) of traveling with a family of 5.
As I begin this blog our family of five consists of nine-year-old Liam, five-year-old Mikaela, and one-year-old Eliane, plus my husband Chris, and me, Kirsten. We are currently in the planning stages for a two month trip we have coming up which will take us to Barcelona, a Greek island called Karpathos, New York City, Newark and the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, Berkeley and various other places in Northern California, and possibly Portland, Oregon.
Because Chris and I both have friends and family in the States (we live in Australia ourselves), we try to get over there on a semi regular basis. This is only our second trip since Liam was born though, and the first since we had more than one child. So it should be an interesting experience.
A note on spelling:
The Australian/English way of writing ‘travelling’ is with the double ‘L’, which indicates that the last vowel sound is short (ie that there was no ‘magic E’ dropped when adding the ‘ing’). But, the American way is with a single ‘L’, and my iPhone, on which I am writing most of my posts while travelling (who needs an iPad?), auto corrected traveling to the American spelling. Half the people reading this are likely to be American, and half of our travels are there, so, I’ve decided to stop fighting it, and just use both spellings interchangeably on this site.
