Traveling makes me greedy. The more I travel the more I want to travel! But we’ve still got to balance our wanderlust with everyone’s favorite limiting factors: time and money. Right now we are privileged to only have one job to accommodate, and Chris has a generous vacation/PTO plan. It’s still something we have to work… Read More 5 Ways to Maximize PTO & Travel More
Over the years we’ve messed up, like really messed up, but we’ve learned from it and become better travelers as a result. Here’s my “List of Shame” to help you learn from my mistakes, or just feel better about yourself! 1) Relying on my memory of the flight schedule. I never do this anymore. I… Read More My Top 5 #AirTravel Fails
TSA PreCheck how I love you. Let me count the ways. I’ve had it for a year now and I can tell you definitively that it is worth its weight in gold if you have young children. Why TSA Precheck? Here’s why you should click over to the TSA website right now if you have young… Read More My Favorite Travel Tool for Flying with Children: TSA PreCheck
After much discussion we have decided to take an extended family vacation to Costa Rica in 2018 to celebrate my grandparent’s 50th anniversary. The trip will need to accommodate 15 adults from 19-80 and 8 children from 3-12. I’m anxious to set a date and a location since we have budgets and vacation days to… Read More Costa Rica: Pacific Coast vs. Caribbean Coast
I’m planning this trip for a foreign exchange student from Colombia, but I think this would be a great day trip for families with kids in the 10-18 range, especially if they are considering a career in architecture or history! Based on the request, this day is planned for a Thursday, but it would work… Read More One Day in Richmond, VA: Focus on Architecture
My Mother-in-Law is looking to take a trip with her niece and nephew to visit family living in St. Paul. What’s fun for her generation isn’t quite in line with what’s fun for the kids, so she asked me to put together an itinerary they could all enjoy! The Cast: 68 year old retired teacher,… Read More 3 Day Twin Cities Itinerary with Middle Schoolers
My husband is in Dublin right now (I’m so so jealous!) where he’s working for a week. His default while traveling for work is to work really hard and not experience anything the location has to offer, which I find unacceptable. So here is the research I am sending with him so he doesn’t have an excuse… Read More A Work Week in Dublin
We flew into NC last night and my kids are reacting to the jet lag very differently. HJ was up at the equivalent of 4:30 California time but K slept until the California equivalent of 6 am. I’d like to do some research and do a full post on lots of jet large secrets for… Read More Today’s jet lag goals
I’ve flown solo with both kids on several occasions and it’s always gone well but I still get nervous in preparation. Tomorrow morning we’ll be leaving the house at 5:15 am, kissing my husband at the curb, and traveling for 7 hours 40 minutes (including one layover). So what am I doing to prepare for this especially hands-on… Read More Flying with Kids: Carry On Checklist (1 Mom, 2 kids)
We have been in California for almost 2 months and the dust is finally settling on the whole moving process. This was our third move as a family of 4, but the other 2 were both local moves within 30 miles. Still, I think we’ve started to grasp what does and doesn’t work for us… Read More 11 Tips for Moving Across Country with Kids