Our 2020 calendar included five out-of-state road trips, all cancelled with the onset of COVID- 19. During the winter of 2021 – 2022, seeing the growing percentage of the population achieving a level of immunity due either to vaccination or infection, reading about declining rates of hospitalizations and death, and trusting that the trajectory of the disease would continue in the right direction, Judy and I planned 2022 as the year of the road trip. We have six road trips on the calendar between the beginning of June and the middle of October, everything from an “over-nighter” in southern Wisconsin to a sixteen day “southwestern tour” including Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas.