https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 04 May 2026 03:15:16 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120862 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 07:49:20 +0000 JerricaBenton 2120862@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Before LO I always went with my DH when he traveled for business. I'd bring a ton of books, hang at the pool and spa, shop, then we'd meet up at night. Now with LO we've only gone with him a few times and we extended it to a real vacation. It was definitely not as relaxing to be with LO all day by myself on vacation - but still fun if it's a good location and there's stuff to do. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120832 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 07:38:32 +0000 bushelandapeck 2120832@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Before we had LO's I traveled with DH to Spain, Germany, SFran, NYC....but now it's just too much. I'm hoping once they are a little older I will be able to tag along sometimes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120746 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 00:27:46 +0000 shellio 2120746@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I work FT and DH is a SAHD, we like to make family vacations out of the conferences I attend when they are in good places. In January we all went to Hawaii, I went to 5 days of meetings and we were there for 10 days. It was awesome. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120702 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:16:50 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2120702@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If he's somewhere cool to visit he'll stay over the weekend and I'll meet him. My travel may overlap a day/time he's still working, but that's the extent of tagging along. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120700 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:02:50 +0000 PawPrints 2120700@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My job has me traveling with some frequency, but I don't think I would ever bring DH along even if it were somewhere awesome. I don't see it as worth it for him to use his vacation days when we wouldn't be able to spend hardly any time together. I work LONG days when I travel. It might be different if he SAH though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120696 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:54:35 +0000 youboots 2120696@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. But usually when it can be extended into a long weekend. We went to Vegas for 4 days for my birthday and drove one way to LA and stayed there for another couple days for Ms work. We went to Disneyland one night and I mostly hung out poolside. </p> <p>My family has a beach house. So we go down, he will see his customer then we will already be there for the weekend.</p> <p>So if it makes sense and I can make it into a mini vacation great. If not he goes on his own. I would never want to overdo it or distract him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120565 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 19:43:34 +0000 catomd00 2120565@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I only go if it's somewhere interesting or warm! I don't mind hanging alone, so I try and go as often as possible just to switch it up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120496 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 19:03:23 +0000 ElbieKay 2120496@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I dunno, I usually work a lot harder on biz trips, so I don't think I would want my husband to tag along! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120490 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:58:32 +0000 BSB 2120490@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I travel for work and DH's schedule is flexible so he usually comes along if I will be away for more than a day and we can lengthen the trip to make a weekend or trip out of it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120186 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:50:19 +0000 looch 2120186@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: yeah, not like me at all not to go! I don't remember if I had deadlines or what the issue was. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120173 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:46:54 +0000 Anagram 2120173@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think this depends so much on the atmosphere your husband will be working in (nonstop work with work dinners? Or more relaxed schedule?).</p> <p>My husband doesn't travel for work but I had a conference last May in New Orleans and DH took some vacation days and came along with LO because my schedule was very relaxed--I just had 1 meeting and 1 conference session a day that were required--so we had a lot of time together to hang out. I was still pumping, so that took some time as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120155 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:39:35 +0000 sandy 2120155@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband travels about 2-4 times a month but he's usually only gone 2-3 days at a time. And he is nonstop busy often driving between meetings and flying out of a different city. So we don't tag along. He also does a lot of red eye flights which I am not a fan of with a young child. BUT a few times a year he has a conference somewhere cool. This year we are tagging along with him to go to Vegas and staying 5 days. Anything shorter than that it's not really worth it to me to disrupt our schedule. I did tell him I want to tag along the next time he has conferences in Dallas, Phoenix, San Diego or Boston </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120149 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:35:16 +0000 catlady 2120149@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I used to love tagging along since my work is pretty flexible and I'm usually allowed to do some work remotely while he is busy. I haven't done any of those trips since LO was born though. It is harder now since I wouldn't be able to get work done so I'd have to use my vacation days. Next year DH may be going to Ireland for a conference so we may try to tag along to that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120148 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:34:59 +0000 daniellemybelle 2120148@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have done it pre-kids and it was a lot of fun and a more affordable way to travel. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120138 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:28:04 +0000 Shutterbug 2120138@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DH travels fairly often, but usually to boring places, or only for a couple days, so I have never tagged along. He's got a convention coming up in southern California though, so I think I'm going to tag along for that one. No LOs though, so I'll gladly spend my days on the beach reading/sleeping! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120126 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:23:08 +0000 blackbird 2120126@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: I would have totally been down with a solo me trip to the bahamas!!! All the books please and thank you!</p> <p>Dh has been to Seattle (i used to live there, big whoop) and Philadelphia (also whoop) this year </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120102 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:14:07 +0000 looch 2120102@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband went to the Bahamas on his most recent trip, but he was travelling with a coworker, and I knew if I tagged along, I'd be having dinner with them both and they'd be talking shop. Now, granted, I could have handled laying by the pool all day, but for whatever reason, I didn't go. I should have, though, sans child! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120093 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:06:22 +0000 merriment 2120093@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It probably depends on the type of trip. We did it all the time when LO was under 2 (and didn't require a plane ticket) since my work days always had a set end time and there was never the expectation of socializing after work. DH has a really flexible job and was keen to go. It was super fun. Even destinations that initially didn't seem so exciting ended up being really great (I had low expectations for Omaha, but they found an AMAZING children's museum and train museum and it was an awesome trip). If nothing else, it was great to have a change of scene. DD reverted to two naps a day after discovering a love for doing stairs at a hotel in Charlotte, we had beach picnics in Palm Beach, it was great. Dinners could be a little stressful, since we would pretty much have to go the moment I finished work, but a little planning made that a non-issue. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120092 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:05:40 +0000 PurplePumps 2120092@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No LOs yet, but if DH went anywhere cool, I'd just take PTO and tag along unless he was expecting 12+ hr work days. He went to Taipei last year and I tagged along for 9 days and his work put us up in the Westin right in the city. He'd be back in time for dinner, had the weekend free, and even got out of work early one or 2 days so we still got to spend some time together. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120077 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:58:05 +0000 mrsjyw 2120077@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We could tag along on DH's trip to Boston every couple of months, but we haven't yet. He is going to South Beach for an awards convention and they're flying me out with him in May :D We're turning it into a "babymoon" before DS#2 arrives! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120075 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:57:03 +0000 avivoca 2120075@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've done it a couple of times, once with the baby and it was fun. I don't get to do it often because I work full time as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120063 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:51:59 +0000 Foodnerd81 2120063@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: yeah that's the other thing I worry about. Most of the time he has work dinners or people go for drinks after work, but he says the more often he goes, the less that will be an issue. </p> <p>I used to travel a lot for my old job and it was always to cities, so he tagged along a couple of times and spent the weekend or whatever. It was fun, but obviously very different without a toddler. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120057 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:50:24 +0000 Smurfette 2120057@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: DH works like 10 hour days when he travels, so it doesn't appeal to me at all.</p> <p>Before LO I flew to FL where he was instead of coming home for the weekend, and that was fun. Since work paid the extra hotel and car rental for the weekend. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120055 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:49:19 +0000 Foodnerd81 2120055@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@illumina: no dates set, but he was just there last week and they were saying he should come out again and stay longer (it's another office location for his company). I actually would have considered going last week but we had just gotten back from vacation. </p> <p>@sunny: if it was SF I would definitely go, since mil lives in the area too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120052 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:48:48 +0000 blackbird 2120052@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH has never gone anywhere cool enough for me to tag along to! The one awesome work trip I went on (Palm Springs), he had *just* started a new job, so he couldn't come. I usually end up at remote, dusty, gross military bases in the boonies. But Palm Springs would've been a good work trip, because it was a conference and everything ended at 4:00 every day and everybody else brought their families, too. </p> <p>Otherwise, our work trips aren't family friendly. I end up working MORE on my work trips than I do when I'm in the office. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120047 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:47:12 +0000 yoursilverlining 2120047@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I work full time, and my husband doesn’t travel often (3-5 times a year), but we’ve tagged along a couple times and then tacked on a few extra days to make it a family vacation too. I just do a lot of research before we go, since I’ll need to spend the day with LO by myself. Last summer we went to DC and the conference hotel was about 3 blocks from the zoo, so we walked there and spent most of the day there, and then walking around to area attractions. Next month he has a conference in Vegas, which we are not coming with, and this summer he has a conference in San Francisco that we will come out for. I think it’s worth it since hotel and his flight is covered. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120046 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:46:13 +0000 sunny 2120046@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I went with DH when he had a week long trip to SF and I was SAHM. Even though we were by ourselves for the week, it was still really fun. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120038 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:42:49 +0000 illumina 2120038@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well as you know I am definitely considering it! Usually he doesn't go anywhere super interesting, so we haven't done it yet...but otherwise I would. Being on my own all day wouldn't bother me at all. If we go to SD we will rent a house/condo by the beach so it's more convienient for me and LO...and also we don't have to go out for all meals etc. When would you be going? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120034 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:41:30 +0000 lamariniere 2120034@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I did it a lot when DS was under 1 because DH traveled frequently for work. I even did it before we had LOs. :happy: DH doesn't travel much anymore, but we did tag along on a trip to Barcelona last fall, which ended up being really fun. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tagging-along-on-sos-work-trips#post-2120029 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:37:58 +0000 Foodnerd81 2120029@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Illumina's thread got me thinking more about this. If you SAH, or have a really flexible schedule, how often to you tag along when you SO travels for work? </p> <p>DH travels a moderate amount, but it's usually short 2-3 day trips to not very interesting places, so I don't even consider those. But he potentially has some longer trips to the LA area and could stay in a suite hotel or rental condo, so we are considering all going. C is still under 2 so we'd only have to pay for my flight. But I'd be on my own during the day, so we haven't decided if it's worth it yet. </p>