About SheRoamsMiles

Big Trips. Little Traveler.

SheRoamsMiles helps parents plan ambitious trips with young kids using firsthand family travel experience.

We started close to home with road trips, Texas state parks and national parks. As our daughter grew, the trips grew with her.

We rode with sled dogs in Alaska. We started visiting UNESCO World Heritage Sites. We took longer international trips. And eventually, we found ourselves sleeping in a tent inside a Great Wall of China watchtower with our six-year-old.

We didn’t start out thinking, How far can we take a kid?

We just kept learning what she could handle—and how we needed to travel differently when something was too much.

What You’ll Find Here

You’ll find firsthand guides to family travel with young kids, national parks, UNESCO World Heritage Sites and ambitious international trips.

But we don’t just tell you where to go.

We tell you what it was actually like with a child:

• how much walking or physical effort was involved
• what our daughter could realistically handle
• where we stayed and why
• transportation and logistics
• what we spent when it’s useful
• what worked
• what didn’t
• what we missed
• what we’d change if we did the trip again

If we recommend or mention something we didn’t personally experience, we’ll tell you that too.

We Actually Went There

That’s an important part of SheRoamsMiles.

Our firsthand guides come from places we’ve actually visited.

We won’t pretend we saw everything. We won’t turn a difficult day into a perfect one after the fact. And having visited a destination once doesn’t make us experts on an entire country.

What we can tell you is what happened when our family went—and the details we would want to know before taking our own child.

That might mean explaining what July heat really did to our Great Wall hike, how we handled internet and payments in China, whether a hotel kitchen actually saved us money in Washington DC, or why an ambitious itinerary had to be cut short.

You can then decide whether it works for your family.

How Our Travels Changed

Our daughter has been traveling since before she could walk.

The early years were road trips, parks and destinations closer to home. Those trips taught us how she traveled before we started asking more of her.

Over time, that became longer hikes, longer flights, UNESCO sites and international trips.

We’ve learned that age alone doesn’t tell you whether a child can handle a trip. Walking ability, sleep, food, weather, temperament, waiting, transportation and the itinerary itself can matter just as much.

That’s why we don’t believe every trip needs to be built around children’s attractions.

Sometimes our daughter gets the playground.

Sometimes she gets the Great Wall.

And sometimes she thinks the elevator was the best part.

How We Travel

We don’t travel slowly all the time, and we don’t build every day around kid attractions.

We usually have a lot we want to see. The difference is that we’ve learned to adjust the trip around what our daughter can realistically handle.

That might mean starting early and calling it a day sooner. Taking a chairlift instead of adding another climb. Using a private guide when complicated transportation would eat up too much of the day. Staying near public transportation. Paying more for convenience when it genuinely makes the trip easier—or saving somewhere else when it doesn’t.

We use miles and points when they make sense, but we don’t plan an entire trip around them. Sometimes the better choice is simply paying for the flight, hotel or experience that works best for our family.

And we don’t try to see everything.

We’ve missed attractions, changed plans, taken breaks and learned that an itinerary that looks reasonable on paper can feel very different with a young child in the heat after several days of travel.

Our approach is pretty simple:

Keep the big trip. Adjust the way you do it.

That could mean hiking the Great Wall—but bringing plenty of water and a portable fan. Visiting major historical sites—but leaving room to slow down. Taking an ambitious international trip—but accepting that you may not see every attraction you planned.

That’s the kind of travel you’ll find on SheRoamsMiles.

Who SheRoamsMiles Is For

This site is for parents who still look at the map after having kids.

Maybe you want to take your child to a national park. Maybe it’s Japan, China, India or a UNESCO site you’ve wanted to see for years.

And maybe you’re wondering:

Should we wait until they’re older?

Sometimes, yes.

But sometimes you don’t need to wait.

The trip just needs to be planned differently.

That’s what we’re here to help you figure out.

We Roam First. You Travel Smarter.

We make the trip, test the logistics, carry the snacks, deal with the missed connections, find out how hard the stairs really are—and write down what we learned.

Not because our way is the only way to travel with kids.

So you have better information to plan yours.

Big trips. Little traveler.

We Roam First. You Travel Smarter.