Road Trip w/ 5 Kids Under 5 & The Truth About Traveling With Friends

This week, we’re recapping our road trip with five kids under five — from $30 apple juice and restaurant chaos to everything we learned about traveling with friends. We’re also sharing our biggest tips for finding compatible travel buddies, navigating different parenting styles, and making trips with kids actually enjoyable.

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Always Hungry

Abby: Tomato Cucumber Salad
Ingredients:
1 pack Flavor bomb tomatoes
1-2 English cucumbers depending on if you use big Costco pack of tomatoes or small one
1 bell pepper (optional, I don’t always add this in)
1 package of mint
Olive oil
Red wine vinegar
Salt & pepper
Instructions:
Cut tomatoes in half, skin cucumber cut in quarters, dice the bell pepper and remove mint from stems and finely chop the leaves. Combine it all and top with a good amount of olive oil and red wine vinegar to taste and add salt and pepper.
Abigail: Homemade Taco Seasoning
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Chapters:
1:19 - Pregnancy/Postpartum catch up
4:10 - The Hope the Hard
16:06 - Newport family trip
28:09 - Balboa Island
41:14 - Audience poll
47:50 - Tips for traveling with friends
54:27 - Travel compatibility
59:39 - Ask Abbys
1:11:28 - Always Hungry

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