Our drive from Google Map. We drove through the southern path and returned through the Northern one.

One of the days during the 2nd week in April, I happened to walk into a conversation between our elder son and my wife. Our son was going to get his second dose of vaccination and was planning on a  long road trip to visit some national parks. At the end of it all, the trip turned into one that my wife and I would also accompany him. Our younger one had work to do so he couldn’t. All three were fully vaccinated by then and we were excited. Our son had it all planned and it was supposed to be for a couple of weeks, so there was not much for me to do.

We love such road trips and visits to the parks. We have done them a few times. In 1983 my wife and I (poor grad students) drove from NY City down to Florida and back, stopping on the way at all sorts of interesting places and staying with friends or Motel 6! Similarly, we did a trip in 1984 going from NY City to California and back over 5 weeks. We saw a few events at the LA Olympics that year. Subsequently, we had flown to Denver with the kids and drove around some of the parks in Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota etc. and a few times to California and drove around in CA, AZ, NV etc. They are just a lot of fun.

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