I agree on bikes, it’s oddly hard to keep track of. We went on holidays to a caravan park and took the kids bikes and I asked the youngest why he always used his foot to stop. It turns out the bike had no brakes, it had been handed down many times! I felt pretty bad about that one, ended up buying him a brand new bike.

I think it’s one of those things that the more you do it the faster the prep gets.

Three different universities in three different towns!

@Seppie – oh dear – sorry you guys had so many bikes stolen, and yes, that suggests that they not take a nice one somewhere!

@Lori C- so the Burley just goes in the back of one of the cars (seats down). It does not fold up like a stroller as far as I can tell, though the wheels do come off so it is somewhat more compact than in its full form. For this trip we put 4 bikes on the bike rack that goes on my car’s hitch. Then the Burley and one other bike went in my husband’s car with the back seat folded down. Of course this meant that car could only accommodate two people, so everyone else goes in my car. I thought the bike rack can hold 5 bikes but now I am not 100 percent sure on that. I know we have transported 7 people…

@Sophie – there are a lot of bikes! And we have a reasonable number of smaller bikes, they are just too small at this point, so…

@Jennifer – thanks! I have that poem going through my head every time I see the tiger lilies, which are the only kinds of “tygers” around here…