About Backpack to Buggy
Backpack to buggy aims to give new parents, or prospective parents, help with the transition from traveling to traveling with kids. From sharing reviews of destinations, great gear, hard-learned tips & tricks, or just philosophy, I hope to inspire more parents to recommit to their love of travel and to inspire their next generation of travelers.
About Me
I am an late 30-something mother who spent 30-something years traveling the world to 19 countries on 4 1⁄2 continents. Only 10 years ago, I was traveling Asia with only a bookbag size backpack. Having my first baby a year and half ago almost put an end to my travels. After our first “test” trip to Hawaii, another parent summed it up accurately as “it’s no longer a vacation, it’s now a trip.”
Travel is in my blood. It feeds my soul. There are so many places I haven’t seen yet! This last Christmas, while sharing a horrible cold with my daughter, (oh you know who shared with whom), and probably under the influence of a fever and drugs, I decided that we had to take a travel vacation. That meant no relatives involved, over an ocean, to a country where English is not the first language, a tropical climate and an exciting culture. We went to Bali & Hong Kong and I recovered my travel mojo. My husband had a wonderful, memorable vacation. My daughter added a stamp to her passport, made new acquaintances from around the world, learned new animal names & sounds, ate many new foods and was a rock star.
There are lots more “trips” in our future and if all goes well, even raising our little girl outside of the USA for a while.
Contact
Feel free to email me at meg@backpacktobuggy.com or twitter backpacktobuggy.
2 responses so far ↓
1 OHmommy // Oct 24, 2008 at 7:24 pm
I love your about me. I too love to travel and it is totally possible w/kids. My 3 kids have passports full of stamps. The latest trip this summer was Paris. Not quite Bali. Would love to do that too!
2 Phillippa // Dec 31, 2008 at 5:09 am
I just stumbled upon your site from a link and this sings to me! I was an avid “packback - only-a-quarter-full-and-one-bar-of-soap-for-body-and-hair” kind of traveler as well, before my elder son was born 22 months ago. Like you say, we’ve taken trips since then, but he’s already got 5 foreign stamps from these vacations. Am looking forward to breaking in ourselves as a traveling family.
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