Tag: traveling with kids

  • Taking the Long Way

    Our road trip from California to Minnesota on the fringe of winter kneaded me like dough into an expanded version of myself. Travel has a way with transformation.  California has always been the promised land in my mind. I have traveled many places, but never taken a road trip across this many state lines before.  […]

  • Lessons from the Little Ones

    The first hour or two of a long road trip is really just your mind scanning to see what you forgot. The car potty. Not the car potty. The good thing about road-tripping during a pandemic is that peeing on the side of the road feels mostly acceptable.  Van patrol set off to Sacramento, CA, […]

  • The Time We Took Two Under 2 to Italy

    “Would you do it all over again?”, asked my youngest sister. My mind quickly recounted slamming my hands into the mattress in a sleepless fury, while yelling, “I can’t do it anymore!”. And then I flashed to our self-guided nighttime walking tour through Rome, gelato in hand, engulfed by the romantic magic of a brand […]