Anyone Travelling with Children?
 

hi I am 51 and have a young daughter who i travel with regularly, using our Defender camper van with a CRF 250 rally on the back. We have traveled most of Europe, Iceland, Norway, Ukraine etc but i would love to do Morocco or the Stans etc but really would like to travel with a like-minded group/other vehicle or bike with kids. Just gives a much better sense of security traveling together, and also nice for the kids to play together at the campsites etc. So plans for 2020 are - could easily do Morocco in either Feb or March, then will head north to East Iceland for end March, Northern Norway for early April (to avoid the crowds), cross to Russia at Murmansk, south to Kazakhstan and Tibet. Again i am super easy and have a relaxed timetable (my daughter has a correspondence school), so really a post to see if anyone out there has similar interest or situation. I have posted a pic of our rig. Get in touch if anything interests you in the above or you want to meet up on the road. thanks dean

Are there any restrictions on entering china or campers excused?

campers excused
 

didn't manage to make any of my travel plans due to Covid, however i am hoping to be on the road early January towards Lake Baikal.

on the road
 

hi everyone we managed to get to Turkey for 4 months, then took ferry to Odessa, arrived there Sunday, now wild camping near Kherson and will slowly make our way north to Kiev and then onto Russia. Anyone around, need some info, drop me a line. Ukraine is as great as ever, no Covid restrictions, no masks (except supermarkets) so all good!!!

I love your Setup with a additional carrying a bike!

Gratulations for beeing already on tour with your daughter! Too for her it must be an amazing experience - to see parts of the world together with you!

Did you was able to connect to other travellers with kids till today?

I did meet travellers with kids severall times - but guess it is not that easy to connect with each other.

This can help at least to look who is nearby:
https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hu...-abroad-101222

I did`nt find a helpful ressource, but with googeling for "Overlanding with Kids" you can find a lot of travelblogs, but no easily way to conncect.

Surfy

thanks for the tip
 

thanks for those words, very kind, we managed to meet up with several travellers with kids in Turkey, like Goreme and Nemrut, but since then no-one!!!

Travellers Map
 

By the way, the Travellers Map often shows us blank ie no-one in the world travelling, don't know why!!

In Portugal with our 6 year old daughter
 

Greetings to you! We are in Portugal with our self converted camper van, however it is not a 4x4, i have just purchased an XT350 and a trailer for it, we like it here and are surrounded by dirt tracks. Always looking for new friends for us and our little girl and we are open to traveling.
Not sure if we will settle here long term, depends what happens with the insanity and where this leads to.
You would be welcome here, nice little farm and Portuguese family, good place to winter the possible coming storm.
All the best, Tom Sarah and Sunrise.

hi Tom, Sarah and Sunrise, thanks a lot for your message, we are now on Sakhalin Island in the extreme East of Russia (practically Japan) - sorry for taking so long to reply, haven't been online for awhile - our plan is to head south around January via Turkey to Iran, please keep in touch, we are #yeadonyeadon, in case you have instagram

on the way south
 

Hi Tom, Sarah and Sunrise are you still in Portugal ? we are moving south west now, plan to be in Ukraine/Bulgaria end Jan 2022 before south to Turkey and Iran - let us know your movements thanks dean

Travelling with kids is very exhausting for me. I've been in a long flight with my nephew, and it was a very bad and difficult experience. My husband is always talking about children - but I definitely don't want any kids. I am even thinking about abortion, I have found some interesting ideas and essays on https://samploon.com/free-essays/abortion/ and I don't think that I am ever going to have children.

You think that travelling with a nephew is exhausting - try living with them, they help you to redefine exhausted!