mommyoffive Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Where have your kids traveled to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 without us . . . 1dd has been to italy, at least twice. 2dd lived in chile for 18 months 1ds has been to istanbul (never again, won't go into why), and germany we've all been to various parts of canada and the US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 DD17 has spent at least a week in Oregon, California, Washington, Wyoming, Hawaii... and a couple of days in Canada. She would love to travel the world. DS21 has spent time in Washington, Oregon, California Hawaii and a couple of weeks in Haitii for a mission trip. He never plans on leaving the PNW again. DD9 has been in Oregon, California and Washington. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amira Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Oldest ds has done two cross country US trips. The other two have done one. IIRC, oldest had been to over thirty US states, but almost never from regular traveling. They've all been to Kyrgyzstan and Mexico. The older two have also been to China and Kazakhstan. They'll all add on at least three more countries next month and probably at least five more in the next couple of years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freelylearned Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 DC, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, and California. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 (edited) I assume I can include family trips, since my kids are still young to travel alone .... Let's see. At least: US states - Texas, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Arizona, Nevada, California. Also Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. Countries - Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, some Caribbean island countries, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, India, Greece, Italy, Vatican City, Austria, Switzerland, France, UK, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Morocco. Next week we will add Poland and Ukraine. When I was their age, I had never been outside my own state, never been on a plane or a train. :p Edited June 26, 2016 by SKL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenneinCA Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 My kids have been to California (live there now), Arizona (lived there too), New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Massachusetts, Maine, New York and Florida. My oldest has also been to Minnesota. My boys will see Minnesota this summer and then the states list will be the same. They haven't been outside the country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheReader Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Our kids have traveled with us on all our trips except the Buenos Aires one, so that is: Grants, NM St. Louis, MO Cruise to Cozumel and Progresso Moved to brazil, so extensive travel w/in Brazil, including the Amazon Sarasota, FL road trip from TX Cozumel, Mexico San Diego, CA Fort Collins area, Colorado (and by extension, also into Wyoming) (And I forgot, on one US. Visit, we went to Mt. Rushmore and surrounding area) Florida Keys Within TX we've done San Antonio, Austin, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston/Galveston, and Corpus Christi. Now that we are back in the US, we're trying to travel more here, but I am very grateful for all the travel we did while in Brazil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Oh gosh, well my kids are all older, so have had the opportunity to travel more. They're all in their 20's now. They've all been to a majority of US States, except the far north East Coast states, the deep South, Alaska and Hawaii. Been to the Toronto area of Canada. They've also all been to Costa Rica, Hungary, Austria, Croatia, Bosnia, and Germany as a family. Other than that: #1- I think every country in Western Europe except Greece; Turkey; most countries in Eastern Europe; Puerto Rico; Columbia; Azores Islands; Mexico; Quebec #2- Panama; Nicaragua; Italy; France; Spain #3- Ecuador; France; Germany; Italy; Spain; Sweden; Denmark; Switzerland; Ireland; England; Scotland; Turkey; Thailand; Malaysia; Senegal; Gambia #4- Greece; Turkey; England; France; Spain; Italy; Australia #5- Australia; Italy; Sweden; Denmark; Spain; France Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdj2027 Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 US (most states), Germany, Denmark, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Lithuania, Turkey, Mauritius, Morocco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 (edited) Eldest was born in London, youngest in Hong Kong. Eldest has been to Indonesia, Malaysia, New York and Singapore. Both have been to Hong Kong, China, Thailand, UK, US (Texas and Colorado), Italy, France, Spain and Greece, Australia and New Zealand.. Edited June 26, 2016 by Laura Corin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nd293 Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Dd has been to Australia, Greece, Jordan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Oman, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, UAE. Ds9 (although he won't remember all of them): Australia, Malaysia ("that place where I had that chocolate cereal"), New Zealand, Oman ("where I was born"), Philippines, Singapore ("where we went on the trains"), UAE ("where my sister let me fall off the bed when I was a baby"). It is his abiding dream to sleep on a plane, so he's very eager for our planned Europe trip! He's fun to travel with. He had the people in front of us on our last international trip a few years ago in fits of (nervous?) laughter with winners like "We're REALLY high up!" and "I think the pilot turned off the engine." 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawz4me Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Oldest DS is the only one who cares about traveling. He's been in all the east coast states, most of the midwest, coastal Canada, England, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Latvia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SemiSweet Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Mine are still little but they've been to about half of the states, including living in Hawaii for 3 years. They've lived in 5 states. They've also been to Thailand, Cambodia, and Korea. Next week they will go to Canada, in December we are going on a Caribbean cruise, and I think in May we will be traveling Europe for a 3-4 weeks (I'm not 100% on Europe yet because of some potential job changes for dh). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitestavern Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Both of mine have traveled extensively throughout the US. And they have both been to Mexico. Next year they are going to Europe for the first time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 NYC, Mass, CT, Germany This summer we are going to Germany and the Netherlands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 My 8 year old has been to 30 states, my 3 year old around 20. None of my kids have been outside the US yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 We've driven as a family pretty much coast to coast in both Canada and the US twice. The dc haven't been outside North America yet, but it's only a matter of time (and money). ;) Both dh and I have traveled extensively before kids, and dh still travels a bit with work, so there will be lots more traveling in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoCandJ Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 (edited) Let's see.... Dd1- Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, and Oklahoma Dd2- Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Oklahoma More extensive traveling is being planned as they get older/we have more money Edited June 26, 2016 by MomtoCandJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Stateside, we have taken them all over. We moved from CA to NC and did a lot of touring back and forth for a while before finally deciding. We have done the northern route and the southern route, so they have seen most of the national parks, etc.....and when we lived on the West coast, we drove up and down it since I have a lot of relatives in WA and we lived in SoCal. Here on the East Coast, we have driven all the way up to Montreal, Canada, and all the way South to Florida. We have gone into Canada twice, West and East Coasts, and to Mexico a couple of times, across the TX boarder and the CA boarder. Two have also been to China and Hong Kong. We hope they get to travel in college some, when they can really remember it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
historically accurate Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 None of mine have been out of the country. All have visited: South Dakota Minnesota Iowa Wisconsin Illinois Indiana Kentucky Ohio Pennsylvania Tennessee Georgia Florida Oldest also has visited Missouri and Kansas We drove through West Virginia, but I don't count that since we were there for all of 30 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommyoffive Posted June 26, 2016 Author Share Posted June 26, 2016 I assume I can include family trips, since my kids are still young to travel alone .... Let's see. At least: US states - Texas, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Arizona, Nevada, California. Also Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. Countries - Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, some Caribbean island countries, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, India, Greece, Italy, Vatican City, Austria, Switzerland, France, UK, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Morocco. Next week we will add Poland and Ukraine. When I was their age, I had never been outside my own state, never been on a plane or a train. :p Wow. you guys have traveled so much! Amazing. How did you fit in so much in 9 years? Do you do a few countries a year? When did you start taking them places? They are so lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassenach Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Dh has managed to take each kid on a big trip in their tween/teen years. My eldest went to India with him, Ds got to go to Israel, and youngest dd is going to go to India next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Wow. you guys have traveled so much! Amazing. How did you fit in so much in 9 years? Do you do a few countries a year? When did you start taking them places? They are so lucky. I'm an older mom, so I can't wait for my kids to grow up before I work on my bucket list. So I drag them along. Other than the plane tickets, they don't cost a ton. We try to consolidate trips so there are fewer plane tickets. :) We took our first international trip (Caribbean cruise) when they were 4/5. The next year we did Guatemala (winter), followed by India (summer). Then another winter cruise to hit Mexico, Honduras, Belize. We did most of the European countries in one whirlwind trip when they were 7 (mostly by train); Argentina/Chile/Uruguay when they were 8; Spain/Portugal/Morocco when they were 9 (one flight; then we rented a car). Canada was a summer road trip. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 The kids are proud of their travels. They've been to Canada, Costa Rica, France, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Also, stateside, up and down the east coast from Florida to Massachusetts and northern New York state and out west to Las Vegas (for an Elvis wedding!) and to Bryce and Zion in Utah. They get to add Mexico stamps to the passports in the fall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommyoffive Posted June 26, 2016 Author Share Posted June 26, 2016 I'm an older mom, so I can't wait for my kids to grow up before I work on my bucket list. So I drag them along. Other than the plane tickets, they don't cost a ton. We try to consolidate trips so there are fewer plane tickets. :) We took our first international trip (Caribbean cruise) when they were 4/5. The next year we did Guatemala (winter), followed by India (summer). Then another winter cruise to hit Mexico, Honduras, Belize. We did most of the European countries in one whirlwind trip when they were 7 (mostly by train); Argentina/Chile/Uruguay when they were 8; Spain/Portugal/Morocco when they were 9 (one flight; then we rented a car). Canada was a summer road trip. Do you have any other tips on traveling cheap? Do you guys camp or stay in hotels? I am always looking to make it cheaper so we can afford to go more places. Do you do travel hacking? Points and miles and stuff? How long was the European train trip? For us we just started traveling a year ago. But now I have been bitten and I want to just go to as may places as possible before they grow up. But traveling with 5 isn't cheap. We are headed to Canada for the first out of country trip this summer Arizona California Nevada Wisconsin IL We have been to some national parks Grand Canyon Painted Dessert Petrified Forest Death Valley Sequoia Kings Canyon Joshua Tree Cabrillo National Monument Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan in SC Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Mine have been to- South Carolina North Carolina Virginia Washington DC West Virginia Delaware Pennsylvania New York Alabama Georgia Florida Mississippi Maryland Wisconsin Tennessee Illinois Indiana Kentucky New Jersey Bahamas My oldest went to Italy when he was 12. (He also spent several hours in the Munich airport, but that doesn't really count.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckymama Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Ds23: about 30 states, Germany, Austria Dd21: about 30 states, Greece Dd16: about 30 states, China Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Do you have any other tips on traveling cheap? Do you guys camp or stay in hotels? I am always looking to make it cheaper so we can afford to go more places. Do you do travel hacking? Points and miles and stuff? How long was the European train trip? For us we just started traveling a year ago. But now I have been bitten and I want to just go to as may places as possible before they grow up. But traveling with 5 isn't cheap. We are headed to Canada for the first out of country trip this summer Arizona California Nevada Wisconsin IL We have been to some national parks Grand Canyon Painted Dessert Petrified Forest Death Valley Sequoia Kings Canyon Joshua Tree Cabrillo National Monument I can't honestly say we travel "cheap." We usually try to have 5 people share 1 room, so that helps. We try to do ground travel vs. flying when we can. Sometimes an "apartment" is a better deal than a hotel room for some reason. We usually stay only 1-2 days in each city so we can hit more places on each trip. Mostly we don't worry too much about the small expenditures; once you pay for a big fat plane ticket, scrimping on small stuff isn't going to matter much, and it's more important to find healthy food that everyone will eat, get some good exercise and fresh air, be safe, and make the trip worthwhile. :) I think the Europe trip was 2.5 weeks. It was hectic and a little too busy for my tastes. Rousting the kids out at 5 in the morning to drag the bags to the train station ... it gets old. :) The kids did love the trains though. And I got a lot of work done between stops. All of my vacations are "working vacations," so I can take a couple weeks without it being a big problem. My kids' school is often the bigger constraint. Traveling is my thing that I don't mind spending on. I have the money because my house is paid off. When I was younger, I stayed home when my friends traveled; that's why I haven't been to Hawaii yet - because all my travel buddies went when I was broke. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhanaBee Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 (edited) With us: Across the US in a car, twice. Too many states to type out. ;-) Winnipeg, Manitoba California [a lot] Colorado {a lot} Connecticut North Carolina Florida Israel England France Without us: California Colorado Connecticut Florida Israel Russia France Youngest is saving to go to Africa in a few years Edited June 26, 2016 by OhanaBee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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