TODDLER TRAVEL
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Fun things to do in NYC with your friends and your Friends kids
Let’s face it, becoming a parent is hard, becoming a parent before all your friends do is even harder. Since giving birth my friends have (quite shamelessly) replaced their love for me with the love of my daughter. In an effort to still get invited with them on outings I’ve pretty much scoured the NYC for fun things to do that I can entice both them and my daughter with. The following activities have kept a room full of toddlers thoroughly entertained as well as left parents raving. It’s so nice to know that there are fun things to do in NYC for both your adult best friends and the…
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How to Gate Check a Travel Stroller Bag
To be honest I’d always turned up my nose at people packing the large clunky stroller with them at the airport and swore by this stroller but I now fancy myself a jogger and travel with a much larger stroller when traveling domestically. Take these steps to gate check your travel stroller bag and ensure it gets to your destination in one piece, even if your sanity doesn’t. Reasons to use a stroller bag when you travel Protects Stroller from Damage from bag handlers | The number one reason strollers get broken in transit is that they pop open en route and a baggage handler has to try to fold it back down…
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Sustainable City | San Jose California
When I told people I was heading to San Jose California they smiled and nodded dismissively. When polled about where to go in San Jose no one I asked had a any recommendations about the city. So my expectations weren’t high when we touched down in this Bay Area city FAR from the bay. San Jose California feels like the golden girls met Better Call Saul. It’s a nostalgic tv throwback doing everything right. Palm tree fronds bow to meet oak leaves and provide shade for earth tone dwellings in the kind of color pallet my dreams are made of. It’s a city that feels like it lacks an underbelly.…
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Simple Ways to Help the Environment on your Next Family Trip
They say the most sustainable form of travel is scrolling your Instagram feed. The carbon emissions of jet fuel is the absolute worst. I don’t know about you, but I for one want to continue traveling the world, seeing new places and experiencing new cultures. As a mother ensuring Mother Nature in all her glory is there for my daughter to wander on her own when it’s time is of the utmost importance to me. The only way to preserve Mother Nature and all her glorious secrets for the future is to do what I can to save her now. If resisting the call of adventure isn’t in the cards…
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Traveling with Toddler | Bumbleride Jogging Stroller Travel System
It’s important to take time for yourself and if that means staying in shape with a morning jog, try the Bumbleride Jogging Stroller Travel System on your next trip. Previously I’ve always traveled with a collapsible stroller, but have recently tricked myself into believing I’m a jogger. For this reason, I really wanted to try out packing my gifted Bumbleride Jogging Stroller Travel System along, on my recent trip to Cali. To be honest I’d always turned up my nose at people packing the large clunky stroller with them at the airport but boy did I love traveling with my toddler and our Bumbleride Jogging stroller travel system. To be…
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I want to travel the world with my family
People ask me all the time why I want to travel the world with my family and if they have a moment, I tell them about my in-laws. They have the cutest relationship, my mother in law was raised in Benin, West Africa where the official language is French. My father in law, on the other hand, was raised in Nigeria, a neighboring country in West Africa where the official language is English. Neither of them speaks the other language, they converse solely in their tribal tongue of Yoruba. Their children speak a mixture of three languages to varying degrees in addition to all the other languages they know. My…
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Shopping in Cotonou Benin Republic
Among the many things the city of Cotonou, Benin Republic has to offer the shopping is by far one of the best. Benin is a shopping paradise of everything from fabrics to food. I travel for clothes. Five years ago I moved to Byron Bay, Australia because of a pair of leopard print bell bottoms, that spoke to my soul. Motherhood didn’t change my desire for fashion-centric travel, two years ago I dragged my family to Montreal for a mud cloth bathing suit from Nanawax and to worship at the altar of its globe-trotting founder Maureen. Maureen is from Cotonou, Benin Republic and I knew that if a powerhouse like…
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Travelling Essentials | Travel List For Women and Children
Consider this the ultimate travel list of packing essentials for travelling with kids. Ten Travel Moms, who have experience travelling with kids all over the world dish on what they wont leave home without. Travelling essentials, whats on your travel list? Sunshine Abou Bakar | jg Jasmine Crumby | Deodorant, Extra credit card, ID Daniela Kemeny | WIFI! I never step foot out of an airport without having purchased a SIM card first, mainly for security. Using a GPS, being able to google the nearest emergency center, and being able to call your hotel in case you get lost are fundamental things I need to be able to do. (And…
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Airplane Travel With A Toddler | Wear This
After flying on over 30 flights in the last two years with my daughter I’d like to think I’ve perfected the formula for what to wear during airplane travel with a toddler, enter, my travel uniform. Since I’ve discovered Little Gypsy Co I haven’t gotten on a plane, without throwing on one of their dresses, well I did once and I’m still regretting it. These dresses are cute and comfy and layer like a dream! They lack pockets, which means I never absentmindedly put something in them only to later forget said confiscated trinket in my pocket when going through TSA checkpoints So if you’re not going to heed my advise and live…
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Navigating the Batu Cave steps with Kids
Every time I travel to Kuala Lumpur I make a stop at the Batu Caves. There is something magical about getting to the very top and experiencing the Fern Gully type of hidden kingdom revealed at the precipice. My most recent trip to the Batu Caves was for my annual birthday trip and was the first time climbing the steps with a toddler in tow. Let me tell you, climbing the steps of the Batu Caves are a completely different beast while pregnant versus with a full grown human strapped to my back. Here are a few tips for your next family trip to the Batu Caves, including what to wear. Like…
