PoS will take off this Thursday for her first solo trip ever, after receiving an all expenses paid trip to visit one of the many schools on her list. We're no strangers to the friendly skies, but she's never traveled alone. Is she a little anxious about it? That would be an understatement.
When she was first learning how to drive, she had to ask me how to get everywhere, including the same school she's attended for 5 years. How do you just ride in a car and never pay attention to the route? How do you just wander through airports across the country and never pay attention to where you're going? Her answer is, "That's what I have a mom for." So in addition to everything else, I'm her navigator?
We're an iPhone household so, to put her mind at ease, I started looking for apps that would make her trip a little easier. Her airline has an app that allows her to check-in and use her phone as a boarding pass. How jealous am I about that? I've yet to travel to a market that allows phone scanning for boarding. I also found an app that maps 68 of the largest airports in the country. Tomorrow night we'll work on mapping her route from the gate to baggage claim, where a university rep will meet her.
She was just as apprehensive about taking the metro at the beginning of the school year and she now navigates it like a pro. I have no doubt that she'll master solo travel as well. She'll have to, right?
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