Find babysitters you trust. Thankfully my mom has been around for us and we've trained some local babysitters along the way. While they are infants, getting out is really a challenge. Especially if your wife is nursing. I won't go into the details but doing normal stuff is a challenge while nursing let alone riding. Once they are a little older, it's easier to get away. Once they are sleeping well and not getting up during the night, it gets even better. My husband and I do overnight trips and pack on the miles instead of the more frequent Saturday and Sunday rides we used to do. In the season, we typically do one overnight trip a month and one 3 day trip (2 nights) a season. Our overnighters are usually down to Athens/Hocking area and we stay in Marietta. We usually do around 250 miles each day. We consider them our date nights where we find a nice hotel and nice dinner. Then get back up and ride again the next day and then head home. Now that both kids are older (6 and 9), we have several babysitters who will watch them while we do 5 or 6 hour rides to Coschocton. Having said that, we still don't get out as often we'd like. We try to balance home time, kid time and motorcycle time and it's always hard and usually you feel guilty at some point to one or all of the above.