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[quote=Anonymous]My dad is now more than happy to use a wheelchair, but some years ago when he was in the same position as your mom and didn't want the wheelchair, we planned a couple of trips and day trips around finding him a "camping spot".  For example, we were going to the National Aquarium in Baltimore.  We stopped off at Phillip's Harborplace and we parked him at the Oyster bar.  He had Oysters. clams and beer (for lunch!) and then took a newspaper over to the windows and sat there people watching, looking out into the harbor and then reading his paper (and taking a short nap in his chair).  We went to the Aquarium and came back and then we had dinner at Phillips and came back.  We had another trip where we were going somewhere for active daytrips and we arranged for a bus tour of the area for my parents.  So we dropped them off at the start of their tour, went off to our day trip.  When the finished their bustour, they went to a nice coffee shop, had a cup of coffee and relaxed.  They had about an hour or hour and a half before we got back.  But we enjoyed the drive out and then back home with them. The trip home was nice because we could tell them about our hike and they could tell us about the  bus tour.

It takes some planning, but you can sometimes work out things so that you can still share a vacation together even if you don't spend every moment together.  But it takes some research to find age-appropriate events for both the old and the young and work to schedule them so that everyone can do everything.  Usually the in-between (the parents) vacation gets sacrificed a bit for the sake of the grandparents and kids.[/quote]

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