A friend of mine was away in the South Rupununi for a couple weeks, doing some work and checking on some family, and was telling me about his travels – he was all over the map. I assumed he had flown to Lethem and motored from there. Turns out that the man drove all the way, solo, and he casually mentioned the return trip home was about 20 hours of non-stop driving. It hit me as the notion of the 20 hours sank in that I had reached the stage in my life where I was too old to take on a journey like that – it would wear me to a frazzle. Hard on that thought came a reminder that I had a note in my jottings to do a column about things we should plan to do before we’re too old to do them. So in no particular order of importance, here is the list as of today.
= Fly to Salt Lake City, Utah (the quickest route for us is via Miami) but don’t stay there. Rent a car and drive due south in the state, your destination being Bryce Canyon National Park and Zion National Park. They’re about 3 hours from Salt Lake City and less than an hour’s drive apart, and they are two of the most spectacular places on earth. Bryce is an unbelievable sandstone canyon with formations eroded over centuries into spectacular towers and valleys
