Travel with Grandkids

  If you’re traveling with your grandchildren’s parents, you don’t need to worry about packing or special documentation for the kids. If you’re traveling solo with the young ones, though, you may need to take special actions. Passport? Birth Certificate? Letter of Permission? As long as you are traveling by car or train, you shouldn’t need any special documentation. However, if you are traveling by plane, especially internationally, a few things may be necessary. If you are traveling outside of the U.S. (by any mode of transport) every person, regardless of age, will need a passport valid for at least six more months. People under the age of 18 won’t need identification traveling in the U.S., but it’s not a bad idea to take passports if you have them (especially if your last name is the same as theirs). You also won’t need birth certificates unless you are traveling with an infant-in-arms. Nothing special should be required when traveling solo with kids, but getting a lette...

  In a previous issue of Christian Living in the Mature Years Magazine, our travel story features one of the most popular tourist destinations in the United States: Orlando. We give tips and tricks on how to survive Orlando (and its theme parks) while traveling with grandkids. If you have extra time in Florida, Orlando is only an hour and a half away from the sites and beaches near Tampa. The area in and around Tampa offers visitors wonderful ways to entertain kids and their grandparents alike. When I visited with my family, we were so excited to visit the beaches of St. Pete and Clearwater. These beaches are famed for their sparkling water and powder fine sand. We woke up early on our first day there and all trekked out to the beach only to be met with the effects of red tide. Dead fish lined the shore, the smell was awful, and the water was murky. Drats!   Not to be deterred, we decided to see what else the Tampa area had to offer. We each purchased a  Tampa...