After Years of Family Travel, We’re Dreaming of a Cruise for Two

Charles and I started traveling together back in 2003, when it was just the two of us with backpacks, a loose itinerary, and a whole lot of enthusiasm for seeing the world. Since then, we’ve explored more than 40 countries together, built a travel business, and spent nearly 18 years traveling with our two kids.Of course, travel looks a little different when you have children. Over the years, we’ve worked around school schedules, packed more snacks than any family should reasonably need, and found creative ways to keep everyone happy on long travel days.While we’ve traveled extensively year round with the kids, we’ve also made the most of plenty of summer breaks and Christmas holidays, including more than a few impromptu spring break road trips when the kids were enrolled in school and we weren’t semi permanently on the road.While we love long travel, sometimes that meant fitting our adventures into a shorter window, but we always found ways to make it work.But our kids are older now, with one in college and the other getting close, and we’re finding ourselves in a new stage of life. For the first time in a long time, we’re starting to think about what travel might look like when it...