When the kids were first born we thought that the easiest thing to do would be to buy a triplet stroller. Now you have to imagine a three seated baby transport that is a cross between a stroller and a mountain bike. Fenders and a hand break even intertube tires for off road travel. The thing is so big that we got a carrier that attached to the trailer hitch on the back of the minivan to get it around town. It had a detachable canopy and a basket on the back for necessities. It was about ten feet long and only had three wheels. And it in and of it's self drew a lot of attention. Now add the trips.
The trips loved their stroller and always thought it was great fun to be driven around the town in it. The problem was it drew people like flies. People would always have to run up and ask a million questions about it then about the kids. Old women wanted to touch the kids. People would ask us to stop so that they could take photos. Now I don't know about you, but I think it's a little weird to want to photograph someone else's children. It was also hard to navigate in tight corners. Like trying to get to the kiddie rides at the State Fair or to get around the Zoo. You can totally forget about any Mall during the height of Christmas Shopping season with that thing.
We used this monstrosity for the first year or so as our primary form of travel with the kids. After awhile the Wife and I got real tired of the pseudo celebrity status because of the stroller. I was shocked how people have no compunction to walking up and getting in your face you children's face and just making themselves a general nuisance, as if having or being triplets is an invite to all manner of banal comments or questions. Here is the triplet stroller called the runabout. http://www.bergdesign.net/triple.htm
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