ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors set aside various theoretical concerns and focus instead upon what enjoyment of the countryside might involve as a practical matter that takes work and organization. They focus upon the observation of families and individuals undertaking trips into the countryside, notably to national parks and nature reserves, to pursue a range of different leisure activities. Something that quickly becomes apparent when one looks at the overall organizational features of family days out like this, is that they are possessed of an extremely tightly interwoven order, with each part riding somehow upon the accomplishment of the preceding part. The authors track this order through, from beginning to end, in order to explicate in more detail each of the constitutive parts. It is the ensemble of these parts and their accomplishment that together amounts to how this particular 'day out in the country' was made.
