Vacation travel during the pandemic era

A conversation between "Lauren DeCarlo, director of strategic projects at Condé Nast Traveler and mother to my four-year-old son...Monet Hambrick of The Traveling Child blog, which chronicles Monet's travels around the world with her two daughters and husband, and Liz Speichinger, a travel industry veteran who currently serves as the senior global sales director for Auberge Resorts and single mom to her eight-year-old son" provided foot for thought about travel for vacations.

Bottom line: they talked about how "to get a handle on how they're traveling this summer, what questions they're asking ahead of trips, and how—with not a minute to spare each day—they're finding time for themselves."

Points:

• "...the bigger question is, 'How are you going?'"
• For vacation homes, "making sure 100 percent that it has a washer dryer...able to have the option for delivery for groceries."
• When driving, "thinking about how far we're willing to drive, can we drive that far without having to stop for gas multiple times? Without the kids needing a lot of bathroom breaks where we're going to be going in and out of stores?"
• "...it's a different mentality of, do we need the trip? Do we need it for our mental sanity or emotional safety or health?"
• "...how do we do the trip in a new way that maybe isn't in the same budget that it was in the past, but also offers a lot of stimulation?"
• "...our national parks system, our state park system has just, I feel, done an amazing job of providing the tools for kids to be able to engage."

Read the rest of the interview to see what else they do for travel.