What if you get there… and it's a disaster?
I was a wreck before our first trip with our daughter at 3 months old too.
It's the thought of spending all that money, taking all that time off, dragging your kid across the world — and arriving somewhere you've dreamed about, only to spend the whole trip exhausted, stressed, and wondering why you thought this was a good idea.
So you don't book it.
And then you spend another year watching other families travel while you tell yourself "maybe when they're older."
But older never comes. And the trip you've been putting off keeps moving further away.
You're not crazy for wanting to take the trip with your family or travel like you used to pre-kids.
You're just the parent standing in the kitchen at 11 p.m., scrolling through flights, wondering if it's even possible with a toddler in tow.
Or you already booked the trip and now you're freaking out about what to pack, how to survive the flight, and imagining all the things that could do wrong while you're on vacation.
My name is Alex. My husband Frankie and I have been full-time travelers since 2019. When our daughter Everly arrived at the end of 2023, we didn't stop. We adapted. And by the time she was two, she'd already visited nine countries and we'd figured out how to enjoy the trip even with a kid.
This guide is everything I wish someone had handed me before that first trip.
This guide is for you if:
You have a baby or toddler and you're desperate to travel but terrified to try
You've googled "traveling with a toddler" and gotten nothing but vague listicles
You want real, field-tested advice from someone who actually does this — not a travel blogger who took one trip with a six-month-old and called themselves an expert
You're tired of people telling you to "just wait until they're older"
What's inside:
✈️ Flights — how to book them, when to board, how to survive them (including the bassinet truth nobody tells you)
🚗 Long car rides — our actual routine, what works at every age, and how to stop dreading them
🏨 Where to stay — what to look for, what to skip, the DIY blackout curtain hack that costs nothing
🍎 Snacks and food — what to pack, when to deploy the emergency treat, how travel actually made our daughter a better eater
😭 Meltdowns — what to do when it happens in public (spoiler: all kids freak out from time to time)
🧳 What to pack — and more importantly, what to leave home
📋 Paperwork and logistics — passports, borders, solo travel with kids, the things that trip people up
🧒 Age-by-age breakdown — newborns through teenagers, what changes and what stays the same
🌍 World schooling — an intro to long-term travel with school-age kids
Plus a full chapter on handling the critics — because someone is definitely going to have opinions about your choice to travel with your child.
What this guide is NOT:
A sanitized, everything-is-magical version of traveling with kids. There are hard days. There are also days so good you can't believe they're real.
Why trust me?
I'm not a parenting expert. I'm a mom who has changed beds 39 times in a single year, crossed international borders with a toddler and a dog, and figured out — through trial, error, and a lot of snacks — what actually works on the road with a small human.
Frankie and I have been living this life since 2019, and we document all of it on YouTube and Patreon at FnA Van Life. This guide is the unfiltered answer to every question we get asked about traveling with our daughter.
"Take the trip. Take it now. And enjoy the heck out of it."
Still on the fence?
The guide pays for itself the first time you avoid one rookie mistake — overpacking and lugging way too many bags down cobblestone streets, booking the wrong flight time and ending up with a cranky family, having a terrible night's sleep because your hotels blackout curtains were sheer.
Your dream vacation is out there, patiently waiting for you to finally book it.
What if you get there… and it's a disaster?
I was a wreck before our first trip with our daughter at 3 months old too.
It's the thought of spending all that money, taking all that time off, dragging your kid across the world — and arriving somewhere you've dreamed about, only to spend the whole trip exhausted, stressed, and wondering why you thought this was a good idea.
So you don't book it.
And then you spend another year watching other families travel while you tell yourself "maybe when they're older."
But older never comes. And the trip you've been putting off keeps moving further away.
You're not crazy for wanting to take the trip with your family or travel like you used to pre-kids.
You're just the parent standing in the kitchen at 11 p.m., scrolling through flights, wondering if it's even possible with a toddler in tow.
Or you already booked the trip and now you're freaking out about what to pack, how to survive the flight, and imagining all the things that could do wrong while you're on vacation.
My name is Alex. My husband Frankie and I have been full-time travelers since 2019. When our daughter Everly arrived at the end of 2023, we didn't stop. We adapted. And by the time she was two, she'd already visited nine countries and we'd figured out how to enjoy the trip even with a kid.
This guide is everything I wish someone had handed me before that first trip.
This guide is for you if:
You have a baby or toddler and you're desperate to travel but terrified to try
You've googled "traveling with a toddler" and gotten nothing but vague listicles
You want real, field-tested advice from someone who actually does this — not a travel blogger who took one trip with a six-month-old and called themselves an expert
You're tired of people telling you to "just wait until they're older"
What's inside:
✈️ Flights — how to book them, when to board, how to survive them (including the bassinet truth nobody tells you)
🚗 Long car rides — our actual routine, what works at every age, and how to stop dreading them
🏨 Where to stay — what to look for, what to skip, the DIY blackout curtain hack that costs nothing
🍎 Snacks and food — what to pack, when to deploy the emergency treat, how travel actually made our daughter a better eater
😭 Meltdowns — what to do when it happens in public (spoiler: all kids freak out from time to time)
🧳 What to pack — and more importantly, what to leave home
📋 Paperwork and logistics — passports, borders, solo travel with kids, the things that trip people up
🧒 Age-by-age breakdown — newborns through teenagers, what changes and what stays the same
🌍 World schooling — an intro to long-term travel with school-age kids
Plus a full chapter on handling the critics — because someone is definitely going to have opinions about your choice to travel with your child.
What this guide is NOT:
A sanitized, everything-is-magical version of traveling with kids. There are hard days. There are also days so good you can't believe they're real.
Why trust me?
I'm not a parenting expert. I'm a mom who has changed beds 39 times in a single year, crossed international borders with a toddler and a dog, and figured out — through trial, error, and a lot of snacks — what actually works on the road with a small human.
Frankie and I have been living this life since 2019, and we document all of it on YouTube and Patreon at FnA Van Life. This guide is the unfiltered answer to every question we get asked about traveling with our daughter.
"Take the trip. Take it now. And enjoy the heck out of it."
Still on the fence?
The guide pays for itself the first time you avoid one rookie mistake — overpacking and lugging way too many bags down cobblestone streets, booking the wrong flight time and ending up with a cranky family, having a terrible night's sleep because your hotels blackout curtains were sheer.
Your dream vacation is out there, patiently waiting for you to finally book it.
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