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 Trust, sharing, caring and laughing are just a
few of these. Our great family vacations tailor a wilderness world into
a place perfectly suited for nurturing all of those virtues, regardless
of your child's age.
Just ask someone who's been along for one of our
great family vacations.
“Our white-water rafting trip on the
Lower Salmon River had as much to do with old-fashioned family fun as
it did with running rapids,” wrote L.A. Times
travel reporter and father-of-one John Muncie. “It was the
warm and fuzzy things — singing around the campfire, eating
meals together, inventing games, telling bad jokes, debating big issues
with know-it-all adolescents — we remembered long after the
white-water thrills faded.”
The benefits of our great family vacations are
two-fold.
There's the kind you experience with your senses: The visual rush of
whitewater and ridge-top romps. The smell of morning river mist on an
evergreen forest's edge. The taste of a hearty, healthy dinner
— and a delicious desert shared with the kids. The sound of
silence. The feel of chilly little feet beneath your hands, warmed by a
crackling campfire.
“Aside from the occasional white
water,” Muncie recalled, “river days were soothing
stretches of lazy rocking and leisure, framed by spectacular scenery of
golden hills and deep gorges. At the start, our trip leader suggested
we leave our watches behind. The sun became our clock, and the
plaintive note the guide blew on his conch shell our call to
meals.”
O.A.R.S great family vacations offer other
benefits, which include the kind you and your family feel in your minds
and souls, and the kind you might see in your child, maybe for a first
time: New self confidence after a adrenaline-charged tumble into
mountain-fresh waters. Knowledge, following a guided trip into the
preserved dwellings of an ancient tribe. A sincere respect for all
living things after watching a foal and doe deer at river's edge. And
after a break from the big city, a shared experience with family, a new
understanding for what is truly important in life.
During our toasts and testimonials, our trip leader rose and spoke for
the guides, saying, “We hope the river spoke to you and gave
you a special gift.” “Because it does to
us.”
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