She also finds in vacationing a way to model life-long learning. My children have learned from watching the way I travel that you're never too old to learn. At Club Med, I tried the trapeze and when we went on a ski vacation, my older daughter and my husband took snow boarding lessons together. Loomis pauses to ponder when I ask her to name a favorite family vacation. There was wilderness and lots to learn and we played games and cards at night.
Bad trips make for the great memories.
Loomis still remembers a trip she took at nine. The next day, the highway still smelled. We drove home, repacked, my parents went through all the insurance stuff and then we loaded up the car and left again the next day. It was terrible experience that became one of the great family stories. We were driving through West Virginia farm country and everyone was hacking and throwing up.