We have just returned from a road trip with friends which took in Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam, the Grand Canyon, and Yosemite National Park, as well as various other sites and towns along the way. We used all of the superlatives we knew to try to express our awe, filled up our eyes with wonderment, and took over 600 photos in 5 days; but despite the grandeur of nature and the incredulity of more man-made establishments, the real magnificence was the steadfast, unwavering perseverance of our designated driver Nav.
Super-Nav drove in excess of 1300 miles (roughly half the way from San Francisco to New York) over four days in the heat and monotony of the desert, the confusion of the city, the terrifying pitch black windy-next-to-a-sheer-cliff roads of Yosemite, with a mostly terrible soundtrack, probably not enough sleep and having to tackle appalling drivers on rule-less freeways, and a distinct lack of signage. He was truly marvellous and didn't complain once, and before I get around to sharing the photos and stories from the trip, I wanted to pen this small tribute to him.
Thank you Nav. You are more magnificent than the Grand Canyon. Fact.
* credit for pun goes to Helen.
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