Jamie Pearson is a writer, mother of two, and founder of Travel Savvy Mom. Her writing has appeared in Parenting magazine, the Utne Reader , and in the award-winning anthology Toddler: Real-life Stories of Those Fickle, Irrational, Urgent, Tiny People We Love . She has traveled extensively with and without her children …more »

Jane Rytina is a British expatriate mother of two. She grew up in London, and now lives with her family in Palo Alto, California. Like any self-respecting European, she has traveled to nineteen countries and lived in three.  Jane has made dozens of Atlantic crossings and once arrived at Heathrow so saturated with child vomit that her own mother opted to postpone hugging her until after she’d had a shower …more »

Kayt Sukel is an independent freelance writer and mother to a three-year-old son, Chet. Her articles and essays have appeared in publications like American Baby, Continental, Delta Sky, Parenting, the Christian Science Monitor and the Washington Post. Based in Germany, she cannot imagine a life without travel.  And that lack of imagination (or surplus, depending on your point of view)…more »

Rebecca Tompkins recently returned from a two-year expatriate stint in London to her “regular” life in suburban New Jersey. Determined to make the most of their European surroundings while abroad, she and her husband dragged their two young children on over a dozen trips in less than two years…more »

Sascha Zuger left behind her world wandering ways as a divemaster, dolphin trainer, skydiver, whitewater rafter and shark diver for the far more exciting and challenging role as ‘mama’ to now-seven-year-old Nakoa. As the doctors at the tiny Honduran hospital handed over his squirming 6.9 pounds, it occurred to her that he appeared to be mighty portable and has since become the world’s best traveling companion…more »

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