This is going to bug me... now I have to remember all our trips! A good "problem" to have.
We took our kids to Plymouth Village, Mayflower, and Plymouth Rock. Gettysburg Battlefield was much more impressive that I would have thought. I took my son up to Fort Ticonderoga at the northern end of Lake George, New York. We went to Disney World (still think a camper at Fort Wilderness is the best way to do it!). Acadia National Park is a favorite. We had a great trip to Niagara Falls with two other families that is the type of trip I don't think can ever be repeated. There's got to be a few other "big" trips I'm forgetting... but mostly, just GOING CAMPING as a family is something I'll always be grateful we have been able to do.
"Kids" are now both in college, and realistically don't camp with us anymore. They will still stop by to visit us at campsites, but it is nice with just the wife and I.
What we missed that I really regret, is going to Washington D.C. - before 9/11, all the local schools had trips to DC... now they don't (in talking to teachers, they are kind of relieved - those trips were always huge undertakings). So my kids have never been to our nation's capitol - we just couldn't get the trips arranged.
I also wish we had gotten to Concord / Lexington to see the place where the revolutionary war began. Wife and I are planning a trip there this summer, but kid's schedules probably won't let them come with us.
I would have loved to get "out West" with the family, but it just didn't work out. Wife and I are semi-planning to head out there after the kids are out of college - a LOT of things are waiting until after those graduations!
Meanwhile, we still seems to find great places to explore nearby (within an hour or two).
