235 Unforgettable FAMILY TRIP CAPTIONS and QUOTES (Perfect for Vacation Photos)

Looking for some awesome captions or quotes for your family vacation photos? You are at the right place!

Here are 235 funny, short, inspirational, beach, or winter family trip captions and quotes that are just perfect for all the photos you will post on Facebook or Instagram.

1. “Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.” — Ezra Taft Benson

2. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” — Og Mandino

3. “I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.” — Walt Whitman

4. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” — Bob Talbert

5. “There is no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.”

6. “Travel makes one modest. you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustav Flaubert

7. “Children will not remember you for the vacation you provided, but for the way you made them feel during that vacation.” — Allen Richardson

8. “We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.” — A.A. Milne 

9. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey

10. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain

11. “Making memories with my family is my favorite thing to do.”

12. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali

13. “Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.”

14. “Remember the small things, because one day you will look back and realise they were big things.” — Kurt Vonnegut

15. “In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.” — Kevin Heath

16. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” — Albert Einstein

17. “The most beautiful things in life are not things. They’re people and places and memories and pictures. They’re feelings and moments and smiles and laughter.”

18. “If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure, and wonder of life never end.” — Akiane Kramarik

19. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footsteps on the moon.” — Paul Brandt

20. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” — Hodding Carter

21. “Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” — Charles R Swindoll

22. “Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” — Harvey Lloyd

23. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” — Dr. Seuss

24. “Once the travel bug bites there is no antidote. And I know that I will be happily infected until the end of my life.” — Michael Palin

25. “Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell.” — Paula Bendfeldt

26. “The best memories are those of people you love, the places you have seen together, and the experiences you have shared with one another.”

27. “Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.” — David Bly

28. “Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.” — Roald Dahl

29. “A family is like a puzzle. The pieces may split and break, but once collected and assembled, they fit together perfectly.”

30. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

31. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” — Anna Quindlen

32. “When preparing to travel, lay out all of your clothes and all of your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” — Susan Heller

33. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Andre Gide

34. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” — Ibn Battuta

35. “You call it chaos. We call it a family vacation.”

36. “Warning: Dad jokes ahead.”

37. “Jet lag is for amateurs.” — Dick Clark

38. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” — George Burns

39. “How about all the FUN in the DYSFUNCTIONAL family!”

40. “Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.”

41. “There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.” — Robert Benchley

42. “When all else fails, take a vacation.” — Betty Williams

43. “Family: We came. We saw. We conquered.”

44. “And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel. It provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.” — Dave Berry

45. “People will stare anyway, so make it worth their while.”

46. “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” — Franklin P. Jones

47. “My family got a bad case of wanderlust.”

48. “How about this temperamental family? And by temperamental, I mean half-temper and half-mental.”

49. “A family that travels together stays together.”

50. “People forget the years and remember moments.” — Ann Beattie

51. “On the road again!”

52. “Travel to unravel.” — Richie Norton

53. “Always take the scenic route”

54. “Having fun till we all drop.”

55. “Always say yes to new adventures.”

56. “Give your kids memories, not things.”

57. “Are we there yet?”

58. “Best. Family. Trip. Ever.”

59. “Life is not meant to be in one place.”

60. “To travel is to live.” — Hans Christian Anderson

61. “Let’s always vacay together.”

62. “If you don’t try new things, you stay stupid.” — Alexander Watson

63. “It is never too early to begin exploring the world.”

64. “Fully charged with happy family energy.”

65. “Little by little, one travels far.” — J. R. R. Tolkien

66. “Here’s to a vacation of no regrets!” — Joan Rylen

67. “We ain’t tourists! We are travelers!”

68. “Time is precious. Waste it wisely.”

69. “Tans and jetlag fade, but memories last forever.”

70. “Not all classrooms have walls.”

71. “Together is our favorite place to be.”

72. “To travel is to live. Life’s a trip.” — Richie Norton

73. “If only we could stay like this forever.”

74. “It’s all about the memories…”

75. “Traveling is learning.” — Kiyuyu Wisdom

76. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” — Chief Seattle

77. “Oh the places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss

78. “Being happy never goes out of style.”

79. “Adventure awaits.”

80. “Shout-out to my beautiful family.”

81. “In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.” — Charles Schultz

82. “Any day spent with you is my favorite day.” — A.A. Milne

83. “I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once to see the world. Twice, to see the way you see the world.” — Anon

84. “It’s not what we have in life that is important, but who we have in life that matters.” – J.M. Laurence

85. “People forget the years and remember moments.” — Ann Beattie

86. “Smile, shine, and take it one day at a time.” — Christina Smallwood

87. “Dear family vacations, old and new, thank you for the memories.”

88. “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” — Leigh Hunt

89. “I could sit and watch you all day. Sometimes I do.” — Stuart Heritage

90. “We have each other, don’t we? Therefore, we have everything.”

91. “Family is where life beings and never ends.”

92. “Happiness is only real when shared.” — Jon Krakauer

93. “No WiFi out here, but we found a better connection.”

94. “I know you’ll be kind… and clever… and bold. And the bigger your heart, the more it will hold.” — Emily Winfield Martin

95. “We were simply having fun; we didn’t know we were actually making memories.” — A.A. Milne

96. “You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — A.A. Milne

97. “I’m here for family hugs and kisses.”

98. “Happiness is planning a trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.” — Marty Rubin

99. “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” — George Bernard Shaw

100. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” — Sandra Lake

101. “You will always be my greatest adventure.” — Ellie (Disney’s Up)

102. “A family adventure a day keeps the family doctor away.”

103. “There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” — Dave Willis

104. “It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… Let’s go exploring!” — Bill Watterson

105. “Here’s to all the places we went, and here’s to all the places we’ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again: I love you.” — John Green

106. “Memories made together last a lifetime.”

107. “Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” — Saber Ben Hassen

108. “When we have each other we have everything.”

109. “The best beach activities involve sand, sun, and family.”

110. “Good family vibes happen on the tides.”

111. “With the sun on our face and the sand between our toes, these memories with the family will last forever.”

112. “High tides, good vibes, and the family-building memories.”

113. “We need Vitamin Sea.”

114. “Life’s a beach, the kids are a mess, the family’s alive watching the sunset.”

115. “Family. Beach. Paradise Found!”

116. “When we build a sandcastle with our kids, we build memories that will last a lifetime.”

117. “Life is better when we are all wearing flip-flops.”

118. “Our family says hello to the tropics.”

119. “You’ll go home with a tan, an experience, and the best memories spent with your family.”

120. “Love you, my family… to the beach and back.”

121. “Aloe you vera much.”

122. “Grateful for good vibes, good tides, and you.”

123. “Palm trees, ocean breeze, salty air, sun-kissed hair, endless summer, take us there.”

124. “We are a family of adventurers.”

125. “The views were beautiful, but the connections were the best part!”

126. “Surprisingly, the most beautiful things in life are not actually things.”

127. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes memory.” — Dr. Seuss

128. “Our hands and cheeks are cold, but our hearts are warm.”

129. “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” — Trenton Lee Stewart

130. “Days, weeks, months, and years from now, we will be looking back at these moments and thinking about how much fun we had.”

131. “Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”

132. “The best moments made are the ones made in the snow.”

133. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” — Anita Desai

134. “Creating the best memories, with snow, sleds, and laughter.”

135. “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” — Alan Keightley

136. “And so, for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to an end; but that was not to be.” — C.S. Lewis

137. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” — Paulo Coelho

138. “You are my home and my adventure all at once.”

139. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” — Marty Rubin

140. “Adventures are the best gift you could ever give to your kids.”

141. “Don’t wait to retire, pack up your family, and go on adventures.”

142. “It is never too early to begin exploring the world.”

143. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch

144. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” — Lewis Carroll

145. “Life is short and the world is wide. The sooner you start exploring it, the better.” — Simon Raven

146. “I want adventure in the great wide somewhere. I want it more than I can tell.” — Belle (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast)

147. “Then I realized adventures are the best way to learn.”

148. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust

149. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

150. “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.”

151. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” — Jaime Lyn Beatty

152. “Life is about the adventures you take and the memories you make. So travel often and live life with open eyes and an open heart.” — Katie Grissom

153. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” — John Hope Franklin

154. “Today is a good day for a family adventure.”

155. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Hellen Keller

156. “Not all those who wander are lost.”

157. “The best things in life are the people you love, the places you have seen, and the memories you have made along the way.”

158. “Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.” — Lovelle Drachman

159. “There is no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.”

160. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddam mountain.” — Jack Kerouac

161. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” — Confucius

162. “The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.” — Mark Paterson

163. “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” — Dolly Parton

164. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”

165. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” — Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

166. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”

167. “Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.” — Anthony Bourdain

168. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” — Saint Augustine

169. “Traveling is like going to the library! The more you travel, the more you will feel as if reading books!” — Mehmet Murat ildan

170. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” — Bob Talbert

171. “We were together. I forgot the rest.” — Walt Whitman

172. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” — Oscar Wilde

173. “In family relationships love is really spelled T.I.M.E.” — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

174. “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” — Doug Ivester

175. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

176. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” — Aristotle

177. “Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

178. “One’s destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things.”

179. “Where you live shapes how you see the whole world, but when you see the world it shapes how you see yourself.” — Richie Norton

180. “At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, a parent.” — Barbara Bush

181. “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” — Shanti

182. “When you travel with your children you are giving them something that can never be taken away – experience, exposure, and a way of life.” — Pamela T. Chandler

183. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” — African Proverb

184. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” — Anita Desai

185. “We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children’s memories, the adventures we’ve had together in nature will always exist.” — Richard Louv

186. “Traveling’s not something you’re good at. it’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman

187. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s OK. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” — Anthony Bourdain

188. “Travel: the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” — Brenna Smith

189. “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” — Alexander Sattler

190. “Of all the paths you take in life make sure a few of them are sandy.”

191. “The best education you will ever get is traveling.” — Mark Patterson

192. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” — Robert Louis Steveson

193. “I’d rather have a passport full of stamps than a house full of stuff.” 

194. “Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed about coming here, but then I did it.” —  Roald Dahl

195. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” — Albert Einstein

196. “What you have to decide… is how you want your life to be. If your ending was ending tomorrow, would this be how you’d want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. So don’t be afraid, be alive.” — Sarah Dessen

197. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” — Bill Bryson

198. “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” — Leigh Hunt

199. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” — Roy M. Goodman

200. “My ideal travel companions are my family.” — Pharrell Williams

201. “A family that travels together stays together.”

202. “Fully unplugged. Now it’s time for some fellowship with the family.”

203. “Travel, because money returns. Time doesn’t.”

204. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” — Izaak Walton

205. “Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left behind.” — Lilo and Stitch

206. “Family traveling together means a little bit of crazy, a little bit of loud. A whole lot of love.”

207. “Unwinding with the best people in the world.”

208. “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.” — Penelope Riley

209. “Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” — Francis Bacon

210. “Living life to the fullest right now and I could not be happier.”

211. “Life is short and the world is wide. The sooner you start exploring it, the better.” — Simon Raven

212. “No road trip is long with good company.”

213. “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” — Tom Lichtenheld

214. “Not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

215. “Life is too short to not go on that spontaneous road trip with your family.” — Fred Connors

216. “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” — Angela N. Blount

217. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” — Roy M. Goodman

218. “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.” — John Green

219. “The journey, not the arrival matters.” — T.S. Eliot

220. “The best part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination; it’s the memories you make with the people you created.”

221. “Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers but by moments.”

222. “Always take the scenic route.”

223. “You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” — William Hazlitt

224. “This is my road. I’m so happy you came and traveled with me.” — Rachel Hartman

225. “In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!” — Mehmet Murat ildan

226. “Vacations don’t exist so that we could escape life. They exist so that life does not escape us.”

227. “Everything about this vacation makes our souls glow in happiness.”

228. “There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” — Dave Willis

229. “Vacations are all the better when we do them together.”

230. “Vacations are meant to be shared with the people we love the most.”

231. “Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.”

232. “You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination.”

233. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” — Irving Wallace

234. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” — Henry Miller

235. “I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” — Bill Bryson