Family Travel
Family Trips
Dive into real-life itineraries, cost breakdowns, and honest notes from the road — because adventure doesn’t have to cost a fortune.
How We Do It
Big family. Real budget. Unlimited adventure.
We aren’t a family with a travel budget that makes this easy. We are a family that plans hard, stretches dollars, and says yes anyway. Every trip here comes with the real numbers and the real mess.
Traveling with Big Kids
The sweet spot: trips they’ll actually remember
Ages 7–14 are the magic years: they can help plan, roll with the weirdness, and remember the moments for life. These four tiny shifts make the most of that window.
01
Let them own one decision per trip
The restaurant, the museum, the afternoon activity — give it to them entirely. No vetoing. You’ll be surprised what they pick, and they’ll talk about it for years.
02
Build in boredom on purpose
Not every hour needs to be scheduled. Tweens who are bored on vacation will find something — a local kid, a weird shop, a game that becomes a trip tradition.
03
Debrief at dinner
One high, one low, one thing they learned. Simple, consistent, and it turns a meal into something you’ll remember long after you forget the flight delay.
04
The struggle is part of the story
Missed trains, wrong turns, rained-out days — don’t hide your frustration, work through it out loud. You’re teaching them how to handle things not going to plan.
