Stroller Travel System

Wherever you travel, whether you travel by car or by air, travelling all by yourself poses more than enough challenges.  Travelling with an infant or small child threatens to overwhelm.  Travelling with a kid among your carry-ons taxes body, mind, and spirit to the limits of their tolerance.  Add a sibling or two, a thousand miles or so, an overnight or a lay-over, a change of planes or a flat tire, you get the stuff of which epic poets write. Arma virumque cano translates “that guy’s definitely got his hands full.”   Nothing will make it simple.  A little experience and a few good tricks may make it manageable.  Before you even get out of your own driveway, a stroller travel system reduces your difficulty about fifty percent.

Stroller travel system carries the kid and all his gear.

Lightweight and easy to manage, your  travel system combines an infant, toddler  or baby seat with a stroller chassis.  It is just that simple.  What used to require two big and bulky pieces now combines more or less seamlessly into one.  Travelling by car, you roll the stroller to the back door, unhook the car seat, strap it and the child inside into the full and upright position, and head on down the road.  The chassis folds so slim it takes less trunk space than your teen-aged daughter’s make-up.  Travelling by air, roll the system along the jet-way and up the center aisle, clicking baby and seat into their spot, collapse and stow the chassis beneath the seat, and prepare for take off.  Of course, describing the procedure is still a little bit easier than doing it, but not much.  They are so light, so maneuverable, and equipped with so much roll-along storage that you can go from driveway or boarding area to the take-off position without breaking a sweat or using colorful language.  Your mileage with older children may vary.

The kid travels comfortably in his stroller travel system.

In the old days when strollers and car seats remained separate, and when leg-warmers and mini-vans were all the rage, the kid usually fidgeted and sweated and generally got cranky in the car seat.  You would too if you were locked into some contraption with plastic vinyl upholstery and practically no padding, hardly any room to stretch your legs and shoulders to confined you barely could stretch.  Ad the disgrace of some big plastic locking plate over your belly and you would just as soon stay home—even if the parentals made you eat strained peas.  Now, however, light, breathable, rip-stop fabrics and lots of comfortable padding make the car seat as comfortable as your recliner.  Minor design adjustments give your child more room to stretch-out, and a new, stronger and more secure safety system has replaced the clumsy, bulky restraining device.  The new style system makes the eighties and nineties models look positively medieval.

You and the kid travel in style with your stroller travel system.

Above and beyond spectacular safety and comfort features, they come fully appointed and nicely equipped.  Old strollers had hard plastic wheels with solid metal centers.  Those evil little kiddy-car wheels frequently caught or got stuck on practically everything they touched.  Escalators and moving sidewalks inspired more dread than poisonous snakes, infant-sized rodents, and customs inspection.  Now, however, you roll along on puncture-proof soft rubber tires; designers thoughtfully have enlarged your spoke wheels to approximately ten times the size of those on old umbrella strollers, so that your baby travel system rolls further and faster with less effort.  The kid enjoys the luxury of a cup-holder for his bottle and a little tray for his snacks; some systems even have conveniently placed pockets for iPods or other high-tech amusements.  Meanwhile, you enjoy similar luxury with two cup-holders and a tray built-into the handle, which still weighs less than your entire old stroller.  You have convenient pockets for your iPod and cell-phone, too.

Travel with children always will be the stuff of family legend and epic lore.  A stroller travel system, however, will help you focus your tall tales on miraculous sights and sounds rather than navigating the hazards of truck stop aisles or airport crowds.