Here is a ques­tion for all you par­ents: When do you start prepar­ing for the release? That time when your kids make the jump from your home to a home of their own, to a col­lege cam­pus, or (in the case of my son Dylan) a six­teen hour flight away on the east coast of Australia.

Our fam­ily has spent the past week at a remote surf spot in main­land Mex­ico. Trav­el­ing with just the 6 of us is not the norm, as we usu­ally end up bring­ing other fam­ily or friends. But this vaca­tion had to be different.

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