The big summer trip is getting harder to pull off. What families are doing instead.

The big summer trip is getting harder to pull off. What families are doing instead. Ask most Americans about their favorite summer memory, and water shows up somewhere — a lake at dusk, a boat rocking gently, quiet mornings with nowhere else to be. For a lot of them, that feeling has been easier to remember than recreate. As travel costs climb and traditional vacations feel increasingly complicate...