My youngest future man is Lincoln. Last month he traveled with Christie and me and the three girls in our school's senior class (I'm the principal) across New England, New York City and Philadelphia.
He was a valiant little traveler with narry a fuss…though there were some hard times as he started to teethe while we were away.
Traveling with an infant is a good way to get a lot better personal service from those in service positions. Waitresses, cashiers, managers, maids, and others put on their happy face and offer higher levels of service than when dealing with adults. We noticed this especially in Paris two years ago when Haddon went with us on the senior trip. There was a big difference when he was in my arms and when he wasn't. It kind of makes up for the difficulties of lugging an infant across the country/world…maybe I should borrow some infant TWINS next time.
I'll explain our theorums of child-naming rationale in an upcoming post.
