Hi everyone! I am so excited to have discovered the couch surfing website. I have a very active two year old, and I love to travel … we have traveled and stayed with family and friends over the last two years. We are planning a trip in June … and more so than figuring out couch surfing with a two year old I’m trying to figure out how to make it a worthwhile trip. We are thinking about moving to the place we’re traveling, so it’s important to be able to get out and see the town and really see things.

When we used to travel alone, we were high-impact travelers – we pack a lot into each day, we hit the tourist high-points, we try to find the cool non-touristy landmarks, we do our best to meet locals, we try to find the hole-in-the-wall restaurants. We even spend a day looking at real estate, just for fun.

Enter Hunter, the two-year-old. Life at home revolves around meals, naps, pottying, diaper changes, occasional tantrums, and an early bedtime. So … how do y’all do it when you are traveling? We seem to never manage to actually DO anything between meals and naps when we are out of town. Plus our little guy HATES the car, so driving with him basically sucks.

I want to find out what YOU do, how you change your plans and maintain a routine and still have a good trip.

-Ingrid