After the long journey ... thoughts

I am wrestling with the idea that a family takes a vacation together for 3 weeks and then when we come home ... life goes back to normal.  Actually ...  I should change my wording.  When a family goes on a TRIP (not as relaxing as a vacation!) together.  When we were on the road, we worked together daily ...  Oscar set up the tent - every time.  Milo and Tuesday unfolded the chairs around the fire.  We all worked to make sure that Casper was comfortable.  Brian and I talked and planned and worked together to get to the next destination while ensuring we could see the sights along the way. Then, when we came home it went back to the "every man for himself" way of living.  Each of us on our own path, intersecting briefly throughout the day.  It seems that this is a "modern" way of raising a family, doesn't it?  That we all "do our own thing".  The pioneers were more of an all for one and one for all mindset.  I believe that there is still time left that we have together as a family to try to get back some of that closeness. Is it just a matter of "gathering around the fire" every night?  Or perhaps we need more travel time together?  Once a month should we just take off in our little camper and sleep away from home together?  There's a way ...  and I will find it.