@1stjohn0666 My oldest is almost 7. Both our families live out of state. I'm struggling to come up with any examples of vacations that didn't involve visiting some family in that time.
We've been to a few destination friend weddings (3 in 7 years I think), but that's a long weekend here or there.
Up until this past summer we lived in Texas and would alternate summers for our big road trip: one year drive to his brother in Denver, the opposite year drive to my parents in NC. We'd make a vacation of it (both are 16+ hour drives so we'd stop along the way and do stuff, and also play tourist while we were there). In 2021 we camped overnight on our way to Denver and then rented a house in the mountains with brother's family and toured Rocky Mountain National Park. In 2022 on our way back from NC we stopped at this awesome B&B in Arkansas to sleep in a one room log cabin- honestly one of my favorite stops. Twice we used that Denver trip to visit other friends in CO while we were out there.
Now that we moved back east, I'm tentatively planning this summer's road trip to be to Chicago where like half my husband's extended family lives.
Idk, we do a good mix of using the vacations for fun as well as visiting family, but I can't come up with a single vacation since my oldest was born where the destination wasn't chosen based on visiting someone.