Time Travel: Family Travel Podcast

Augusta Sharp hosts this show with a clever framing device: each episode pairs a guest's travel life before kids with their travel life after kids, so the conversation ends up being as much about how parenthood changes a person as it is about destinations. Guests tend to be interesting travelers, not celebrities, so the stories run from backpacking through Patagonia in their twenties to wrestling a car seat through a Rome taxi rank in their thirties. Augusta is a good interviewer for this format because she pushes past the polished version of a trip and asks what it felt like to be the person in the middle of it. The result is a show that works on two levels. Practically, you pick up real destination ideas and a running tally of what travel with small kids actually requires. Emotionally, it captures the specific bittersweet feeling of realizing that the travel you used to do and the travel you do now are two different things, and both can be worth something. The catalog is still small, but the episodes that exist set a consistent tone. Good road trip company when you want a travel show with a little more heart than the standard tips-and-tricks fare.