Well, take note of my blog title–Family Travel Realities<\/strong>! My desire–in life and in travel–is for perfection…. my reality is not-perfection. Can you relate? I know<\/em> we all can. Life is messy and not-perfect and I constantly feel like I am in “survival mode,” flying by the seat of my pants, just trying to get through today. My travel life is often the same… and this blog will be no different. I am not a well-written author, an experienced photographer, or a techie website genius. Just like my life and my travels, I will be figuring it out as I go along. My primary objective is simply to create a platform to share our stories and the lessons we have learned and to encourage others not to wait for travel perfection. The world is waiting, and if you wait for perfection, you’ll never leave home! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most lasting memories we have from our travels are the ones when things did not go as planned<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is not going to be an Insta-worthy portrayal of our family’s travels. Yes, we have been incredibly blessed with all the travel experiences we’ve had over the years, and I have the stories and pictures to prove it. But you know what’s funny–the most lasting memories we have from our travels are the ones when things did not go as planned. I will reflect on our past experiences and also share our family’s upcoming travel realities–we are about to embark on our next big adventure–6 weeks in Europe traveling through at least 6 different countries with our family of 6. I hope you will come along for the journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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I’ve been “threatening” to start a travel blog for years now… and finally, here I am. My perfectionism has stopped me time and time again from getting started. When you research how to start a travel blog, it’s easy to get bogged down in all the details–you’ve got to figure out your blogging niche, get…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familytravelrealities.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familytravelrealities.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familytravelrealities.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familytravelrealities.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familytravelrealities.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/familytravelrealities.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/familytravelrealities.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familytravelrealities.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familytravelrealities.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familytravelrealities.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}