Mara Gorman

I don’t know when or where I got bit by the travel bug – perhaps it was in Italy when I was nine? In France when I was nineteen? Or India when I was twenty nine? But having children has done nothing to cure me of it. In fact between June of 2003 and July of 2004, my husband Matt and I took our (then 1-year-old) son Tommy on an odyssey across six states, three countries, and two continents. And the arrival of our second son, Teddy in 2005 hasn’t done much to slow us down. Whether it’s to Wisconsin or Arizona, Paris or Vermont, we all love to hop on a plane or hit the road.

I travel with my kids because I believe that the more I take them into the world, the more they will be able to experience both the reality and the possibility that lies around them. I think it prepares them to be global citizens and perhaps one day to work to shape the world to be a better one. And I write about traveling with my kids because I love to write.