With the holidays quickly approaching, and traveling in its peak season, I decided to give you my five tips for traveling. As we all know, family vacations can be stressful, but so fun! We are currently on a ten day adventure as a family and I am so excited to see what the trip has to offer.

1. Pack Light!

We quickly realized that we did not do this. Between the three of us we have three large suitcases, three small bags, a whole bag of electronics, the list goes on and on. Our whole car, a large SUV, was filled to the brim with bags. We just packed too much. It looks as if we are going for three weeks rather than ten days. To be fair, we are going to cold weather so we need a lot of jackets, seeing as we're from Florida.

2. Be prepared for traffic (if you're driving).

We (silly us) decided to go through Tampa during rush hour. BIG MISTAKE. We ended up adding at least 45 minutes to our time by doing this. We definetly did not have this in mind before we left, but luckily, we don't really care because we're not on a time crunch what-so-ever.

3. Have a playlist ready!

If you are driving, or even if you're not, make sure you have a jamming playlist ready! My dad and I love to jam in the car, I feel it makes the time go by faster. You can bet we did that the nine hours we spent in the car, it's so fun!

4. Maybe plan a little bit of the trip...

I know, I know, you're on vacation. You shouldn't be planning anything, it should just be a "go with the flow" type of thing, and I get that. But if you don't have some things planned out, food, what to do, etc. then you may get bored. But, don't stress before you're trip to plan hour by hour what you're doing, that's too much (in my opinion)

5. Be prepared to have FUN!

Family vacations are so much fun, as long as you are ready for it. We make so many memories everywhere we go and they are memories I will cherish forever.