Little Nomad Due To Arrive In Brooklyn This Spring

With my wife's permission, I give to you baby nomad at week 12.

If you follow the tweets on my Twitter page, then you know by now that I am expecting a little airline miles collecting bundle of joy this spring. The baby is actually due the week of my 30th birthday (talk about leaving your care free 20s behind with a bang).

Oh my poor wife, yet another travel nut to deal with on a daily basis around the house. I am already planning on getting the little rug rat a passport and his or her own travel website. How does TheLittleNomad.com sound?

Now you may be asking yourself what exactly does this have to do with travel? Well I actually received the news less than five minutes after flying around Cheney, Washington this past August. I remember landing and telling the pilot that this was such a great experience and the highlight of my trip so far. Yeah, well that experience immediately dropped to second place and was a distant memory upon hearing what my wife had to tell me.

I was in the middle of a week long press trip to Idaho, Washington, and Colorado when my wife called me sounding extremely excited and nervous. I told her to calm down and tell me what’s up. She said you are going to be a daddy.

Now this definitely made for an awkward moment because I was actually driving with a woman from Spokane tourism at the time and was trying to play it cool while getting the best news of my life. I told my wife in code that I was so happy and that I would call her as soon as I got back to my hotel.

I was able to talk to my wife in great detail about this lovely addition to our young family about 30 minutes later (although it felt like three days). It really is a life changing experience…and the little guy or gal has not even arrived yet!

We are both very excited to start this journey into parenthood and this will undoubtedly be my best trip yet.

Tags: colorado, idaho, washington