9 ways to bring every generation but leave the family drama at home

Three generations packed in a van, navigating winding roads and family dramas: It sounds like a scene from Season 2 of "The White Lotus." But the show's fictional Di Grasso clan isn't the only extended family hitting the road together as Covid retreats. Real-life parents, grandparents and grandchildren are packing their bags for long-delayed multigenerational trips.

Audrey Fine, a consultant in Seattle with children in their 20s, couldn't have been happier to revive her clan's tradition of traveling together to places like Hawaii, Cuba and Spain after a pandemic pause. Late last year, one octogenarian grandparent, eight parents, and 14 grandchildren and a few of their partners converged in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, from eight US cities. They spent time hiking, playing family card games and catching up in a gathering that Fine said she had been looking forward to all year.

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