Category Archive: Flying

Before Baby Turns Two: Where to Go?

My baby is now 20 months, and somehow it’s nearly spring already! We’ve been very lucky to have had a busy year already with travel, ringing in the new year in Brazil and… Continue reading

Season’s Greetings – Holiday Travel with a Baby and Family Travel Gift Guide

Only a few weeks left in the year, and shocker, we’re too busy getting ready for another trip to write about all the places we’ve already been. In nine days, we’ll be off… Continue reading

Advanced Baby Travel: Flying with a toddler

After three long posts about flying with a baby, I thought I had pretty much exhausted all the advice I had. Then in August, just after Vera turned one year old, we flew to… Continue reading

Flying with a baby made fun and easy!* Part three: be vigilant

After a thousand words on timing and another thousand on packing and preparation, you’d think I’d have said it all about flying with a baby. But I haven’t gotten through 20+ flights with… Continue reading

Flying with a baby made fun and easy!* Part two: Be prepared

My last post on flying with a baby had to do with timing, both the age of the child and the time of the flight. This next article has to do with packing… Continue reading

Flying with a baby made fun and easy!* Part one: timing

*Okay, so every baby is different and I can’t guarantee that flying with a baby can be fun or easy, but the nightmare of spending hours trapped with a screaming, smelly infant on… Continue reading

Child-free flights: the debate goes on

Not long after the internet argued over babies in first class, now we’re squabbling again over the idea of child-free (or child-friendly, depending on how you look at it) sections of airplanes. After… Continue reading

Babies on a plane: the great debate

Recently, I wrote a column on Gadling about babies and first class on airplanes. This is a perennially hot topic in travel, one that everyone seems to feel vehemently about one way or the other. The… Continue reading