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Travel Stories

While the main goal of this blog is to give actionable and practical tips to other traveling families (YOU!), the site has also served as a log of my family's own travel memories over the years. I've rounded up the best of the best stories from our family's travel adventures, from the practical to the inspiring to the reflective, with a few near-epic disasters and some comic relief thrown into the mix!

Family Travel Meltdowns & Near Misses

Traveling with kids is hard. Sometimes it all falls apart and you wonder if it's really all worth it (it is). Here are a few stories about our family's less successful travel experiences to show you that you aren't alone!

Pentagon Damage from 9/11

My 9/11 Story in Washington DC

For anyone of my generation who loves air travel, September 11 was a life-changing moment that forever reshaped the way we travel. In the early days of this blog, I recorded my own 9/11 story in Washington, DC so I and others would #NeverForget.

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How Trips With Tykes Started & How It Kept Going

Wondering how this blog came to be and what continued to motivate and intrigue me along the way? These are the stories that give you a peek behind the curtain at our family's travel and blogging journeys.

For Posterity: What Happened to Travel and the World During the 2020 Pandemic

I've hidden and no-indexed most of the articles I wrote in 2020 about the stopping of travel during the Covid-19 lockdowns because they are no longer relevant to readers today as they plan future travels. I strongly believe, however, that those articles are an incredibly important contemporary record of the events unfolding in real time, so I haven't deleted them entirely! If you want to dive into these archives, here goes nothing (honestly, I found these really fascinating revisiting them all 5 years later):

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