brainycrunchy
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Hi all! I am wanting to go on a little plane-then-road-trip with my 3.8 year-old in a few weeks (to Washington State) and I'm freaking out about the carseat part!! I'm a single mama with crazy-bad spatial-relationship skills and terrible manual dexterity. I have been lucky enough to have Ketchup Queen here to do my carseat installs, and we have only travelled by plane one time, when our friends picked us up with a carseat installed that they had borrowed! I know it's ridiculous and I know if we were in an accident, etc., I would have to install a carseat possibly on the fly, but I think if that were to happen, I would likely find someone to help me or call someone to pick us up in a carseat. Installing a carseat into a rental car is the single thing that has kept me from flying places with my child (well that and she is pretty darn spirited and independent, so until recently I don't think I could have handled a trip with just her anyway) . I have also heard that rental car carseats can be terrible, so that's another issue. In the future, we will transition to the Britax Frontier 90 and I'm thinking even I can probably (possibly?) learn this one, for other trips. For now, though, I'm trying to figure out what to do about this trip, and I'm literally paralyzed to buy tickets until I figure out the carseat thing! I had this crazy idea that perhaps a Seattle tech could meet us at the airport for the install (and maybe rent a carseat to us if s/he has an extra one), or maybe we'd take public transit in and meet the tech at an in-town car rental place. And, we could also fly into Bellingham. I wrote to one Seattle tech last week, but did not yet hear back -- maybe on vacation. I don't really have any other ideas. I would love any thoughts you might have. (And please don't tell me your seven-year-old can install a carseat. You're seven year old is awesome! I am a non-dexterous, visual-spatial-deficited adult, and I only wish I had the skills of your seven-year-old!) TIA, wonderful forum friends!