‘Big shifts’

Stocking, who works for Lonely Planet, is of the opinion that there will be a greater convergence between families and slower forms of travel, such as a multi-nation tour, a road trip, or, as Stocking attempted, basing her family in a region for a few months to explore more extensively.

Sometimes, the thought of traveling with my own family seems like a lot.There is a lot to research and plan.

However, “everything changed when we realized that we had these huge stretches of time in the summer when we could choose a location and sink into living there while maintaining the schedules that work for us,” she says.