Traveling with Kids...(Sample Chapter) from "Will I Ever Sleep Again?"

As a young boy, the mere thought of flying in a plane sounded exotic and glamorous. Sadly, however, by the time I got around to having kids myself, this so-called “golden age” of air travel had long since been replaced by something far less exotic - the mass transit of large numbers of families and their screaming kids on bucket flights and pay-as-you-go in-flight meals.