10 Things I LOVE : 09.05 Roadtrip edition!

It’s easy to find 10 things I LOVE about Roadtrips. And probably as easy to find 10 things I hate, but we’re focusing on the love here, baby. 1. Freedom. I love getting in my car and just going. No stress getting to the airport on time, if you’re stuck in traffic, you have all [...]

Cali Road Trip 2009

Whew! Who’s idea was it to take a 2-yr old on a road trip again????! Oh, I guess that would have been my idea… On the “not great” side, 2-yr olds don’t bode well on car trips. On the “great” side? We’ll never have to road trip with a 2-yr old again. Next time he’ll [...]

Travelling with Kids – Roadtrip 2009 warmup

This SPRING, Hubby + I are driving the boys down to San Diego and back. Hubby is trying desperately to get out of actually driving, but even with $100 per person airfares, it’s still at least $800 cheaper for the holiday for us to drive. I told him I’ll still save him money if we [...]

Travelling with Kids – Extra Advice

A few more things that have come to mind that we’ve learned while travelling with our Kids. 1. Plan. Have an itinerary. For Italy (and Paris before that), not only did we have an itinerary, we had addresses, maps and photos of each place we would need to find. It was a crazy amount of [...]

Travelling with Kids – Italy

“Are you CRAZY???” As I’ve said, I really hear that a lot, therefore it must be true. This past summer we decided, since it was potentially B’s “last” chance to travel with us for awhile, to take a big, BIG trip to ITALY as a family. With backpacks. With a 4 1/2 yr old, and [...]

Travelling with Kids – ROADTRIP to Cali

“Are you INSANE?” Yep. Pretty much (I hear that a lot…). I must be, because that’s about all I heard when we drove to San Diego from Vancouver and back last – last summer (2007), in just under 2 weeks in our mini-van. I drove the 4 Kids (Boo was only 5 months) to San [...]