Why we write this down

Vrunda and I have always travelled. When Ayaansh was born in March 2021, the easy thing would have been to stop for a few years. Instead we took him to the Maldives at nine months old, and we have not really stopped since.

He will not remember most of it. He was nine months old on a seaplane, nineteen months on a cruise ship, twenty-one months on a toy train climbing through the Himalayan foothills. Those days are his and he has no way of holding on to them, so we hold on to them for him. Where he went, how old he was, what he was like that week.

That is what this is: a travel journal kept for our son, to give him when he is old enough to want it. Every trip is filed by how old he was rather than when we published it, there is a map of everywhere he has been, and each trip ends with a short note written to him rather than about him.

We write it down for anyone else travelling with a small child, too. The practical parts are in here too. Where we stayed, how the days actually went, and the things we only worked out by getting them wrong first.

Whether you are here by accident or by choice, we are glad you stopped by.

- Vrunda & Apurva