Knowing that all plans are flexible, it is our goal to leave the day after Labor Day. We will spend a little time in Yosemite, visiting the high country this time after a visit to the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias. This will also give us a quick look at the Mono Lake area before we head over to Utah. In Utah we plan to spend a week in the Zion, Bryce, Cedar Breaks area, then head up to the Park City area driving through the northern part of the Grand Staircase-Escalante area, and a quick stop in the Capitol Reef area. In Park City we will visit my daughter, then head over to Moab for Arches and Canyonlands. That should take us up to the 26th of September, and we will have 20 days to drive through Southern Colorado, through Southern Kansas and into Northwest Arkansas. After visiting family, friends and my doctor, we will start winding our way to Florida…perhaps with a visit to the Smoky Mountains, perhaps just a straight shot back home…time will tell.
Now that mom and dad seem to back to normal, as normal as any mid-80s couple can be, we feel good about leaving. Doctor told mom that she could “Do anything she wanted to do”, so her clean bill of health with her hip (outside of all the other problems she has) is good news. In fact, they are planning a plane trip to the Kansas City area where they moved to back in the early 1990’s, and moved back from there to California in 2011. They miss their friends and family in that area, so this will be a good visit. Not only that, buy my youngest son Ryan starts his graduate work at Cleveland Chiropractic College in Overland Park later this month, so mom and dad get to see him too.
Ok, so our family is more like this above than the old couple fighting, but it sure got your attention, didn’t it? It might get me some time in the corner from mom, but it is worth the giggle….
