"day excursions" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe outings that typically last a day, either near home or someplace farther away. For example, "My family and I enjoyed several day excursions to the beach this summer."
Durban is ideally placed for a number of very rewarding day excursions.
For a modest extra cost, day excursions to Granada, Leon, and the Pacific coast or Managua can be arranged.
No matter where I go, my subconscious provides a template, and what it shows is a configuration of Poole Bay and its rituals, of day excursions from my childhood Southampton home to that expanse of yellow sand by the green-blue-grey English Channel, between Hengistbury Head and Swanage, pivoted on Bournemouth.
Not-to-be-missed activities in Cartagena include the walled colonial city, the Spanish forts, and the many offshore islands good for day excursions.
And now, after these four years of Labor Day excursions to Boston to buy him supplies and move boxes into a new dorm and tour Fenway Park together, it's all over.
If you'd prefer to leave the driving to someone else, Delta Ecotours (916-775-4545; deltaecotours.com) offers guided day excursions with an emphasis on the history and ecology of the region.
"Every one of these cases is like taking a little day excursion into the twilight zone".
Desperate to justify himself, Hay organises a day excursion but gets mixed up with gun runners.
From the deck of the steamer, on a day excursion to Arran, Rose first saw Goatfell and said that he'd love to climb it.
Steve Kain, the superintendent of the Richland Bean Blossom Schools, told us that "because of the size of the senior class (200) and other reasons the senior trip is now a one day excursion to Holiday World at Santa Claus, Indiana".
I had actually been aboard "The American River Steamer Hendrick Hudson" once, on a day excursion up the Hudson, but never, worse luck, on the smoke-belching French Jules Michelet.
