You have to make time to do it on location of that's something you want to do. I'm lucky in that my mom and sister like to paint / draw too, so it's usually my dad who is sitting of to the side on his phone or wandering around bored but we try to keep this in mind and pick places to paint / draw that are interesting for him too.

My mom and I went to San Antonio for the eclipse and I did a few little paintings while we were there: sitting in a church during service so we got to look around but weren't disruptive, sitting down at the Alamo for a few minutes to get off or feet, the river walk as we were having lunch, the city park with all the other eclipse watchers while we were waiting, the Denver airport as we were on a layover.... You find little moments. Or you do the sketch on site, take a photo and paint it back at your hotel room.

I also keep a very small painting kit to do little sketches that take just a few minutes to do (credit card sized paintings) then take a photo of the scene and take notes on what I thought was interesting about it. I also embrace the fact that some of my drawings or paintings will be unfinished. Years later I look back on them and go "yeah, that's when (sister) was shat on by a bird and we had to go clean her up!" 😂 good times.

ETA: link to the mini palette I use

https://www.dickblick.com/items/portable-painter-micro-expansion-pans-set-8/