We will always have Paris. 📸 🇫🇷 🥹
In January, we lost our home and our beautiful town in the Palisades Fire. Needless to say, it has been a rough road to travel these past few months. But I am so proud of these kids for dealing with the changes, working through the tough stuff and for keeping us laughing and smiling alongside them.
As we get ready to embark on some new travels, I’m aware that we will all have a different perspective of the world now that we lost everything at home. But we also learned that even though we lost our possessions and mementos, we did not lose our memories of places and trips that we’ve taken together. We’ve always traveled a lot but I think we will be traveling even more in the future.
Which brings me to the future of Trips+Giggles. I started this website in 2014, a hundred years ago in internet time. I wanted this to be a place where parents could find practical information about traveling with children and also help each other share information that they learned on their trips. I never wanted to be the sole authority voice on the site and I steered clear of any personal narratives.
But life got very busy with my other jobs and I could never give T+G the effort it needed in this content-heavy internet world. The site has been on pause since January and will be on pause now indefinitely. Unless someone wants to help out? I still think it has such potential. Let me know! 🙂
My ultimate hope is that my children will want to contribute their own travel thoughts and photos, but I’d love for them to do this in a thoughtful and safe way. Growing up is hard enough. Growing up through this tragedy is even harder. Putting themselves out there online just for likes and giggles doesn’t seem worth it.
Eventually, this may close entirely. But until then, we will keep traveling and I will keep sharing what is worthwhile when I can. Thank you all for reading, following and sending messages of support!
