Traveling with kids is often fraught with both excitement and anxiety. You can’t wait to go somewhere (finally!), but you also know that the potential for meltdowns lurks around pretty much any corner ...

As a travel writer, I’m on the road quite a bit. Last year I took 22 trips and I brought one — or both — of my kids on 17 of them. Granted some trips were short — long weekends — but others, like ...