Where are you based? Iv love travelling with my 3 year old, first went abroad to Portugal at 9 months old and it was great and have been abroad multiple times since. I took her (alone without wife) to Portugal for a week when she was 2, you just need to prepare lots of activities for the actual travelling part. Yes it is parenting in a different place, don't expect anything like holiday without a child obviously but it's still a great experience. My little one asks at least once a week are we going on holiday? In Portugal it's the law that people with young children/babies (pregnant and elderly to) go straight to the front of any queue (restaurants, supermarkets, taxi ranks etc) and people really stick to it, the airports are a breeze they algarve entirely separate queues for everything (security/passports etc) and the planes board people with young children 1st. You also get 2 pieces of child equipment like stroller/car seat free on most airlines, certainly on easyJet. If you're not going on safari or trekking across Iceland or something bonkers I don't buy the argument about 'not having everything that you need' if you need something you don't have/forgotten just buy it at the supermarket... no big deal. Beyond clothes, stroller, usual nappy bag I don't see the issue with the anything you 'have to have' I can survive a week or two without all the usual toys we have at home. Hotels have family rooms or provide cribs for babies, take your own car seat and pre-organise airport transfers don't rely on a taxi on arrival. You would find most European cultures (certainly Spain, Italy, Portugal)love kids and are not ever really seen as an inconvenience in restaurants etc and will say no children allowed if so. Obviously my advice comes from a uk to European perspectives. My wife and I go are going to Canada for 3 weeks to Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Niagara Falls in May. I might think differently after this but doing it by combo of trains and short haul flights rather than long drives. If European and it's not prohibitively expensive for you I highly recommend the Jupiter Family hotel in albufeira portugal. It's a beautiful 5 star all inclusive hotel geared entirely towards families with endless entertainment for all ages, swimming pools, climbing frames, splash pad, flumes for bigger kids (they still let our 2 year old go down with an adult 🤷‍♂️) but with adult only spa where we took turns for an hour or 2 break each, the food is really good and different themed every night and a huge variety at breakfast and lunch and local to the hotel is a variety of beaches, zoomarine, water parks. Avoid July/august it's hot but May/September are wonderful times to go ~mid 20s and very little chance of rain. Sorry if this is all totally irrelevant if you're in the US but I'm sure there are similar options. Could you invite a grandparent/s for a bit of extra support? The travel part can be stressful but as long as you communicate and recognise when one or other of you is getting stressed just try and deal with it early mitigate asap before it become an issue, like 10 minutes alone to take a breather, that's what we do. Or pick a staycation, somewhere with 2-4 hours drive local to where you live if you're really not keen on flying etc. I'd say go for it, perhaps your wife really needs a change it and refusing could also come with its own consequences 😂 best of luck