Trip Tales | A Family Travel Podcast

Kelsey Graves is a mom of three and a travel content creator, and Trip Tales is the show she built around a simple format: one guest, one destination, one real trip broken down in detail. Each weekly episode walks through where the guest went, how they got there, where they slept, what they ate, which activities were worth the money, and crucially, what they'd change if they went back. It's the kind of granular recommendation you used to have to dig for on travel forums, delivered in a conversational half-hour instead. Kelsey is a strong host for this format because she asks the practical questions other travel podcasts skip: how bad was the drive actually, did the kids nap, was the hotel pool worth the upcharge, what broke the budget. Guests range from full-time travel families to once-a-year road trippers, so the show covers everything from Banff and the Outer Banks to theme park strategies and European city breaks with little kids. New episodes land weekly and the back catalog now runs well past 100 shows, which makes it a useful library to scan when you're planning a specific trip and want to hear from someone who has just done it. A good pick for the planning phase, when you want honest notes from parents who were on the road last month.