Travel Tip 1-Carry antiseptic hand gel and use it often

Even if you have the travel bug, you don’t have to exterminate it after you have kids. Flying across the country? Driving thousands of miles? Changing hotels every night? Traveling with kids? It is all overwhelming but traveling with babies, toddlers or even big kids can be done and can be enjoyable for not only the kids but for the adults on the trip. We have traveled through many airports pushing two strollers filled with 3 kids, pulling 3 car seats and lugging backpacks, diaper bags and suitcases.
The most common question that strangers in the airport ask us is “Are you crazy?” Maybe we are. Traveling with kids can be tough, tiring and at times it can even be torture. I have had a kid with the stomach bug at the Fort Worth Stockyards, stayed up all night with a colicky baby at the Yellowstone Lodge, and even changed a messy diaper on an airplane tray table on my way to LA. Sorry, but you have to do what you have to do! See Tip 1.
But we wouldn’t do it any other way. It can be hard, but more often than not the times we have spent in hotels, airports, museums, parks, subways and all the other places that traveling has taken us has been exciting, fun and full of memories.