So how does a Slow book tour actually work?
The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary
Brooke McAlary
4.6 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to this week’s episode - a catch up on all things travel with Brooke and Ben after their US Slow book tour. They received so many questions about the logistics of their trip, so today they dive into them all, talking the how, where and why of their time away so far.
First up they talk about how they managed to do the tour - the decisions they made and steps they took in order to pack up their lives in Australia and hit the road. Then they go into the nitty gritty of accommodation and planning, including a sweet hack for longer stays in Airbnbs or VRBOs and the benefits of spending more time in a home-like environment when travelling with kids. They talk about the difference between the first half of their trip and the book tour, and also why they decided (after a test run of the #vanlife in the Yukon) not to go down the campervan/caravan route.
Then it’s onto how they came up with their itinerary, the decisions they made around food (i.e. not to stress about it) to make their lives easier and how they structured their days. They admire the resilience of their kids, and talk about the power of expectations and how they managed them throughout the trip: the highs, the lows, and the things they’d do differently next time.
Ben finishes up by sharing some touching words about how proud he is of Brooke, and Brooke shares her advice for people wanting to travel with their families: just do it. We’d love to hear your thoughts, especially if you’ve travelled with kids or plan to in the future. Be sure to get involved in the conversation on Instagram, and use the #slowhomepod so we can see what you’re sharing.
To read more about the episode, head over to http://slowyourhome.com/260/ for all the links and resources mentioned, as well as the full blog post.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast. |
| 0:02.9 | This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world. |
| 0:06.9 | My name is Brooke McCallory. |
| 0:07.9 | My name is Ben McCallory. |
| 0:09.1 | Welcome to episode 260. |
| 0:11.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:12.5 | We are going to do a bit of an update. |
| 0:15.4 | We are. |
| 0:16.6 | An update podcast. |
| 0:17.9 | It's not a hostful. |
| 0:19.3 | It's the hostful when you're not having a hostful, |
| 0:21.6 | but we received a number of questions during our tour on email, online, socials, in person, |
| 0:30.2 | just about like the logistics of us traveling over the last three to four months during the |
| 0:36.1 | book tour, things like how we did it, what did we do, |
| 0:40.3 | Airbnb versus van and caravans, food, everything. |
| 0:44.8 | So we're going to try and cover everything in a kind of quickfire episode, but then dig deep |
| 0:49.5 | a little bit more and talk about maybe things we would have done differently in our darkest moments. |
| 0:57.6 | Anyway, a bit of fun this episode. |
| 1:01.2 | Let's get into it. |
| 1:02.2 | All right. Before we do get into it, you wanted to talk about a simple year. |
| 1:23.6 | I did. |
| 1:24.6 | So if you have been a long-time listener of the Poggy, you would know that I've been part of Simple Year for four years, I think, now. |
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