Is there really any appropriate preparation that one can do to spend 43 hours on an airplane with a toddler? We've packed movies, games, snacks, emergency chocolate, pacifiers (scoff if you will, but the passengers of Flight C1001 will thank me), even toys wrapped as presents to be doled out every few hours. We shall see. Perhaps we will have gone through all our resources in the first few hours leaving Mirabelle ripping down the aisles with chocolate streaming down her cheeks. There's only one way to find out.
Will it be worth it? A week on the beach in Hawaii will definitely be a treat (see the photo of huge snow heaps currently in Boston), but I'm not quite sure what to expect with Taipei. Will it be as vibrant as Tokyo, as polluted as Bangkok or as organized as Singapore? Will it be at all 'kid-friendly'? I've talked to a lot of friends with kids and many of them do little traveling and when they do, it's short trips within the U.S. I haven't yet come across any friends who have said, "Taipei, oh yeah, we went there with the kids." So we are either incredibly adventurous or incredibly stupid -- and most likely, a bit of both.
But wanderlust cannot be ignored.
Will it be worth it? A week on the beach in Hawaii will definitely be a treat (see the photo of huge snow heaps currently in Boston), but I'm not quite sure what to expect with Taipei. Will it be as vibrant as Tokyo, as polluted as Bangkok or as organized as Singapore? Will it be at all 'kid-friendly'? I've talked to a lot of friends with kids and many of them do little traveling and when they do, it's short trips within the U.S. I haven't yet come across any friends who have said, "Taipei, oh yeah, we went there with the kids." So we are either incredibly adventurous or incredibly stupid -- and most likely, a bit of both.
But wanderlust cannot be ignored.
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