My grandmother was not an emotionally expressive person but she cared deeply about family, and the way that she showed it was by bringing her three children and their children together once a year for a family adventure. She didn’t start this tradition until after my grandfather died (she was in her early 60s), but once she did it was a command performance for sixteen of us. The trips ranged from a few days on the beach in Florida or Thanksgiving at the Greenbrier in West Virginia to a cruise ar...