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    pendola      

    This is a complete post and run.

    I know we have lives after we have kids and all but are there trips that you def want to make sure you take before you start having kids?  What are they?

     
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    Ms. Caniche    September 18, 2010   Orange County, CA

    I will take my kids everywhere.  But I would like to get Morocco in before we get preggo.

     
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    missjyc    September 18, 2010   macomb, michigan

    we gave up our dream honeymoon of tahiti and bora bora because it was out of our budget and will be going to riviera maya.

    we will be doing that as our pre-baby trip... and also 2 weeks in europe if time/money allows. :)

     
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    bruintx    September 12, 2010   Orange County

    Peru. I want to do the three-day Inca trail to get to Machu Picchu, and I think by the time any children can handle it, I may not. Tongue out

     
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    jilian    April 28, 2007   Blacksburg, VA

    We spent 3 weeks in Thailand as our big 'pre-responsibliity' trip in 2009.

    And just cause we'll have more responsibility in 5 weeks doesn't mean we'll stop traveling.  Just may take us a little longer to save.  Grammy will either travel with us (so we get some free time on trips) or be watching the kiddos at home :)  I see some long weekends away this year - but maybe not a full week trip for a while yet.

     
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    mssushi    March 2009   Hershey, PA / Kaneohe, HI

    @Ms. Caniche: My 'rents took me everywhere! We went on vacation every year. Looooved it!

     
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    egb    January 2010  

    Because DH is a bit older than I am and we want to have babies before a certain age but I still have things that I want to do (he's done lots of travelling), we agreed that we'd start our family 2 years after the wedding - which means getting pregnant about 15 months after...

    Anyway, those 2 years are travel filled, we just put all our money into this. We're going to Europe (Spain and France), then Costa Rica, then Japan... Maybe Mexico or Cuba as well, we just got an invite for that so we'll see..

    Then when the kids are there, we'll continue travelling, but at a slower pace, and we'll bring them every second time.

     
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    cannotwait    February 1, 2009   TX

    My family didn't really travel growin up, so I've tried to make up for it some on my own.  That being said, we did get pregnant 10 mos after getting married, so our only int'l trip as a couple was to Italy a couple mos earlier...it was great, though!

    Luckily, there are a lot of places in the US I've never been, so we can do that with kiddos until they are old enough to do international and ease them into that...now if only funds were unlimited!

     
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    gabrielleelise1981    August 28, 2010   Portland, Maine

    Two weeks of eating and drinking our way through Tuscany will be our last big hurrah before TTC. We plan to take our child on vacations (especially once they get older), but we couldn’t really vacation the way we do now with a child in tow.

     
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    Monkeygirl    September 5, 2010   Philadelphia

    This is why we are going to Europe for our honeymoon. And we are going to try to do Hawaii on our one year anniversary- before babies come into the mix and we aren't able to go on vacations like that.

     
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    blondeeebuckeye    February 2011   Austin, TX

    we want to spend 2 weeks in europe before we TTC...in fact, once IN europe we may stop not trying Laughing

    that's really it..we've both been fortunate to travel a lot, plus we have grandparents who will encourage us to take vacations WITHOUT kids (mostly because they want to watch them).

     
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    colors    February 28, 2010  

    we want to take a mini vacation pre baby, just b/c we've been going through a lot with my husband (he's having to go through crohns related surgery). it's a little late now to do a crazy huge vacation since i'm preggo already.... but luckily my siblings gave me a free weekend at a b&b so we'll be going there.

    my parents traveled all over the place with me, so i'm hoping we can do the same with our children.

     
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    bree72    December 31, 2008  

    This is really funny...I started planning an African Safari this morning for next year because I know we'll want to start trying after then. I'd like to go a bunch of places, but safari costs a lot, so we'll just save up for that. Maybe I'll be able to squeeze Ireland in, too. :)

     
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    septcabride    September 2010  

    FH and I do plan to travel a lot with our kids (travel is a huge part of our lives), but we have two big trips planned between the honeymoon and TTC - one to China and one to India.  We want to go NOW, and it may be awhile before we have kids that are old enough to handle that type of travel.

    This is a really fun post, btw.

     
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    I'm not sure what trips we would want to take before TTC.  But I do want to travel with our kids.  Most of our vacations were in the same state to visit family when I was growing up so that was pretty boring.

    This sounds horrible but I want to save the trips where you learn a lot for when we have grade school age kids.  Certain ones stand out in my mind, like the Grand Canyon, but beyond that I'm going blank!

     
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    MsMamaBear       Atlanta

    When a baby comes, he/she is coming with us wherever we go. Unless they are under the age of 1. Over 1? They're in the back seat, on the flight or at Camp Carnival.LOL

     
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    Lindsy    October 16, 2009   California

    There are a lot of different places that we would like to go, but we definitely plan on going to europe for a few weeks before we have kids. I think we're going to try and go next fall, just in time for our two year anniversary.

     
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    jedcaj    January 2, 2012  

    My FH and I have made a pact to go on atleast one vacation a year when we have kids that is kids free. Even if it is just going up to our camp for a weekend. We decided that our kids are def. going to be our number one focus when we have them, but we are still going to take at least one romantic solo trip a year to keep the love going!

     
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    bohemianbailie    January 15, 2011   Huntington Beach, California

    Mine is Australia, since Fi are from different countries our kids will travel a lot but for some reason I want to do Australia just me and my FI. 

     
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    yrret107    November 28, 2009   Seattle, WA; Married in West Chester, PA

    Since we are going to start TTC this time next year, we are planning on making a trip to London before then. 

     
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    Blondiebee    October 9, 2009  

    We just took our last vacation before TTC to Cancun, Mexico! I just got off the pill 2 days ago. Next month we are starting! I wanted to make sure we got that Cancun trip in before kids cause I know our next one wont be for another 1.5- 2 years if everything goes as planned!

     
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    Erindesmar    October 17, 2009   Boston, MA

    I really want to go to Italy/Paris/Spain with my husband before TTC...but time is running out!  We probably won't get to do it before then.  I have been to Europe before but he never has.

     

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