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Road Trips

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Moms Talk: Road-trip Tips for Car Travel with Kids

We're heading off on our first road trip since we became a family of four, and I'm scared to death.

Memorial Day Weekend is almost here, the official launch of summer and weeks when the Land of 10,000 Lakes becomes the highway of 10,000 road trips. We're getting an early start on the family vacation this year with a long weekend in Omaha for my grandmother's 90th birthday, an event I'm both excited about and filled with dread over. I can't wait to finally greet my family, many of whom have never even seen our new son, except via Facebook pictures and YouTube videos. But the actual process of getting there? That is definitely not something I'm looking forward to. Night Driving "We learned pretty early on from our car trips to Omaha with Vi that our best bet for easy traveling was to take off shortly before she was ready to go to bed, and …

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Samara Postuma

8:18 pm on Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Ah! I just wrote about this today! :( Sorry I missed seeing this, would have loved to pass along my tips!! Hope it was a good trip!   more ›

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