Planning for a Trip: Getting Organized the Week Before A Trip

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Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this post we share our approach to getting ourselves, our families, and our homes organized ahead of a trip.

Juggling the hum of normal life with travel-related preparation with all of the errands, tasks and to-dos before departure can easily become overwhelming.

To set you up for success ahead of travel day, we recommend creating a list of everything you need to do to prepare, and then sort the items on a day-by-day basis, starting 1-2 weeks before departure. We have found that taking this approach allows us to feel stress-free, giving us the a a positive start to a trip.

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Family Travel: Lessons Learned from 10 Flights with Baby

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Reading Time: 5 minutesIn this post we explore lessons learned having taken ten flights with our baby before she turned one years old.

Note that we the reflections listed below are based upon travel as a couple that sat in economy with a lap-seat ticket for our infant.

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Family Travel: 8 Ways Travel Changes with a Child

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Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this post we explore eight areas that changed when we included a baby in our travel plans.

We checked in with other parents and they shared similar themes in their experiences. While travel is inherently personal based upon choices in length of trip, speed of travel, reason, financial ability, (dis)comfort tolerance etc., our points below are a reflection of our individual observations and validated by a broader parent community.

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Packing: Six Essentials for Meal-Time with Infant

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Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this post we share the items that helped create better dining experiences when traveling with an infant.

Note that this is not a comprehensive list of all items one should pack, particularly due to the individualized nature of feeding. This post assumes that an infant is eating food outside of breastmilk or formula.

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Packing: In-Flight Essentials for Infant

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Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this post we share the items that helped ease an infant during a flight.

Note that this is not a comprehensive list of all items one should pack for a flight with an infant, particularly due to the individualized nature of feeding and diapering.

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Travel Tips: Best Practices around Gathering Car Rental Quotes

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Reading Time: 4 minutesOpting to travel by private car can be a more time and cost-efficient way of moving throughout a country. It also gives you greater access to hard-to-reach, off-the-beaten track towns that may provide insight into a country’s character beyond the major cities.

Below we share our process for gathering car rental quotes and how we organized our findings for later reference.

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Preparing a Medical Plan & Document Kit Ahead of Your Travels

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Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen preparing for a trip, it’s not our first instinct to consider that a medical emergency may arise. But spending some moments ahead of a trip preparing a medical records kit and overarching plan may help your travel companions, loved ones at home and medical providers better care for you in the event of emergency.

In this post we outline what resources we used during a medical emergency, one that required surgery abroad.

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An Overview of One-Bag Travel

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Reading Time: 5 minutesThis post describes the benefits of one-bag travel and explores some of the initial questions that people have as they shift to this style of packing.

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