Lessons from travelers’ rocky road

Thank you for the amusing yet realistic and honest experience on traveling with very young ones by air [“N.Y. to L.A.: The Parents Trapped,” Nov. 23]. We had no idea what I’d be putting myself into traveling to Israel with my soon-to-be 3-year-old son . After reading the story, I changed my mind, and my husband postponed the trip until my son is old enough to keep his mouth shut and sit still for a long time.

I have always wondered how other parents handled traveling with their young ones on planes. Now I know. Those who have experienced it, I salute you because you are brave.

Libby L. Melamed

San Gabriel

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What makes author Carolyn Kimball and people like her think they are anointed to subject fellow passengers to the antics, including screaming and vomiting, of a 1-year-old and 3-year-old? I had two kids too, and for their first five or six years, we went on car vacations from Maine to Florida. I never inflicted their bratty behavior on innocent airline passengers.

John Newman

San Clemente

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Thank you for publishing Anne Etheridge’s “P.S. Don’t Ever Write Me Back” [Nov. 23]. Never have I laughed so much while reading the Travel section. The correspondence between a bedraggled Brit and a bewildered American is the stuff true travel stories are made of.

Julian Hooper

West Hollywood

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“A Tempest and a Teapot on a Whirlwind Trip” [Nov. 23] was amusing, but poor Jane Engle! Her stay in Hong Kong was marred by rain. At the climactic point in her story, she had to forgo a taxi and actually walk in that rain to her hotel “just a few blocks away.” To quote Joseph Conrad: “The horror! The horror!”

Ron Suppa

Westlake Village