What’s Your Road Trip? by Mary Ellen and Garry McDonald, 2nd V-P CSA Board of Directors Don’t we all have a favourite drive? Or perhaps a few places you would like to join together for a short or even a long road trip? For a few years, ours has been to tour the southernU.S. coast to Las Vegas and then back home to southern Ontario, Canada. Mary Ellen and I attended a Canadian Snowbird Association Board of Directors meeting in midJune and mentioned to Ross Quigley, CSANews magazine editor, that we took our road trip this spring on our way home from Florida. Ross said that I should tell CSANews readers. “Write an article about the trip!” he said. So here begins our article. While we closed up our home inNorth Fort Myers and left Florida onMarch 21, the planning for the trip began months earlier. Our route was designed to take us through cities including New Orleans, San Antonio, El Paso, Tucson and Flagstaff to the Grand Canyon, Sedona and Las Vegas. Friends would say to us, “too bad about the timing…gas is really expensive!” Mary Ellen would reply, “If we don’t take this trip now, wemay not have any personal “gas” to do so later!” So off we went. Welcome to Las Vegas sign, Garry and Mary Ellen 22 | www.snowbirds.org Travel
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