Taking the Kids: Lessons Learned When Traveling With Grown (Or Nearly Grown) Kids

It’s likely everyone will need to compromise on a trip with grown kids.

Sunrise on mount Kilimanjaro. Kenya. Amboseli national park. Dreamstime/TCA

I realized travel with my older daughter had changed irrevocably when we were hiking up Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania with Thomson Safaris.

For the uninitiated, it’s no easy trek to the roof of Africa—some 19,431 feet at the summit. While it doesn’t require technical climbing skills or gear, the altitude certainly is a challenge when climbing uphill six to eight miles a day through five climate zones, including a rain forest and ultimately an arctic zone, getting dustier and dirtier as the days go on.