Sentence examples for taking day trips from inspiring English sources

Here we witnessed this happening all the time, people taking day trips over from Kiev to visit the site of the nuclear explosion, even though it is a threat we all still live with.

Mr. Cardinale said the town envisions visitors staying at Riverhead hotels and taking day trips east to the beaches and wine country and enjoying Riverhead attractions like the aquarium and the theater.

Ms. Weaver said the experience has taught them patience: whether that meant waiting to use their single car while the other was out, or saving enough to buy a second car, or taking day trips instead of having out-of-town vacations, or chipping away at debt keeping them from buying a house.

From here, neither the highest Alpine peaks nor any of the towns on the coast -- Piran, with its labyrinthlike alleys, has the most Old World charm -- is more than a two-hour drive; staying in Ljubljana and taking day trips was a perfect way to keep from constantly packing and unpacking.

Many of the buildings are used by new businesses appealing to the million tourists a year who visit the Manassas National Battlefield five miles to the north or the Manassas Museum, to antiques collectors and to Washington-area residents taking day trips.

People were taking day trips and seeing parts of the country they had never seen before.

During his most recent expedition in August, he packed in "a liter of Jim Beam" and stayed an extra couple days at each camp to either relax or take day trips to remote areas "not even shown on trail maps".

Take day trips together to nearby museums, restaurants, or libraries.

Participants tour synagogues and Jewish cemeteries, and take day trips to ­nearby shtetls.

We also took day trips from Kep to a temple cave and to Bokor Mountain.

A retired waitress, she goes there to meet friends, play canasta and take day trips.