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🎙️TMIT 22: Turning Family Vacations into Family Adventures
Packing everything except expectations 🧳
Danielle & Greg Neufeld
August 04, 2025
Hi friends,
What if your next family trip could be more than just a change of scenery?
Most of us pack the car, board the plane, and tell ourselves we’re going on “vacation” — only to come home feeling like we need another week just to recover. But what if it could also feel like an adventure that the whole family talks about for years?
As this newsletter ships, we are embarking on our own two-week trip (across the Pacific Northwest — Olympic National Park, Mount Rainier, and Seattle), and this time we’re doing things a little differently.
We researched easy, actionable ways to turn this trip into a family adventure—one that builds connection, creates memories, and leaves us (mostly) smiling even when the wheels fall off.
What you’ll hear:
Why most vacations with kids feel like “just a trip” (and how to change that).
Our CREATE framework for making any family travel more meaningful.
The role of boredom, “adventure jars,” and letting kids take the lead.
How embracing the Peak-End Rule can change how everyone remembers the trip.
And of course, how creature comforts like blackout curtains, Kindles, and Amazon lockers can keep us sane amidst the adventure.
If you’ve ever returned from a family trip feeling like you need a vacation from your vacation, this conversation will help you reframe travel as a shared adventure worth remembering.
We can’t promise perfection, but at least our intentions are perfectly packed. 😉
Adventure awaits,
Danielle & Greg
P.S. Thanks for tuning in for the final episode of the Wholehearted Parenting Manifesto series, Episode 21 on "Seeing and Being Seen," and for sticking with us along the journey!
