Long Haul Travel With Kids

My NBC San Diego Kids Travel Segment

July 28, 2011

View more videos at: http://www.nbcsandiego.com. I had the pleasure of appearing on NBC San Diego’s California NonStop 7pm news last night to talk about flying with kids. The four items mentioned are all very helpful to me personally and there’s one we didn’t have time for. Basically, I’ll tell you a little more about each product, where to get them, and how much they cost.

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Travel Tuesday: Taking You to Asia (Kind of)

April 5, 2011
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In two weeks from today, La Jolla Girl and I will land in Hong Kong for three weeks, with a side trip to Singapore. For those of you who don’t know, we lived in Hong Kong for 5 years and La Jolla Girl was born there in the Year of the Golden Pig. I’m going to chronicle our adventure hopefully in a style that will be interesting to you, even if you never go. Here’s [...]

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9 Must Haves For Flying With Young Kids

December 22, 2010
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Many of you know that I was an expat and flew long haul with my infant and then toddler, by myself, from Hong Kong to San Diego more times than I can count. I thought I would sign off for the holidays with this advice, for those of you who are flying with kids over the holidays. I wish I would have posted this earlier so that you could prepare, but better late than never, [...]

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Long Haul Airplane Travel With Young Kids, Part 4: Packing List & Last Thoughts

August 3, 2009
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If you are just joining the Long Haul Airplane Travel With Young Kids series, please start at Part 1. This final installment will talk about my packing list, some random last thoughts and business class seating. We had the privilege of flying long haul in Cathay Pacific business class in February. This is a photo from that flight of La Jolla Girl in her “pod” complete with DVD player, half eaten cheese plate on tray, [...]

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Long Haul Airplane Travel With Young Kids, Part 3: Sleep on the Plane & Gear

July 26, 2009
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If you are new to the Long Haul Airplane Travel With Young Kids series, start first by reading Part 1 and Part 2. If your baby needs a bassinet, you’ll be in the bulkhead.  The bassinet unfortunately takes up quite a bit of your space, even in business class.  I’m sure it’s possible, but it doesn’t seem to be something that you can plop up and down or takeaway as you need or don’t need it.  [...]

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Long Haul Airplane Travel With Young Kids, Part 2: What to Bring

July 20, 2009
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This photo is of La Jolla Girl standing at the edge of her reclined seat watching Handy Manny on the airplane TV. She did this for hours on a long haul flight and was 17 months old.  To start from the beginning of this Long Haul Airplane Travel With Young Kids series, please see part 1. Cleaning: The first thing I do when I get to our airplane seats, is take an antibacterial wet wipe [...]

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