17:23 here You rent a house and a car close to the beach or with a pool and visit from there.

Any thing with a beach is your friend... especially if in you are in a country with interesting sites close by:
spain, greece, turkey, morocco, southwest france, sicily,...

That's the age span of my kids and I've traveled tons with them - Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion, Denali, cruises, etc. My best friend up until age three was the baby backpack. After that, I used the stroller when possible (obviously not for hiking) because the older ones would get frustrated with my youngest not keepin

We travel a lot with our kids (9 and 5), and are about to have a third. I'm hoping this doesn't mean the end of family adventures as we know it. Please recommend your three-kid, wide-age-range trips. Money is something of an object - vacation days and sense of adventure are not. We like nature stuff and city stuff, domestic stuff and international stuff, and are very happy staying in Air BnBs, house swaps, etc. In recent years, we've had great family trips to Tulum, New Orleans, Santa Fe, and Maine.

Inspire and reassure me - or give me a hard dose of reality.