"Not that we know of," she said. "If someone's done that, we'd like to hear from them."

You could see the thought turned on a light bulb in her mind.

"I might like to do that," she said, already working on an itinerary.

"Let's see, you'd start at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, then hit the aquarium in Sandy, then go to The Gateway and see all that (children's museum and planetarium), then lunch at the Lion House, on to Tracy Aviary, the museums at the U., Red Butte Garden, This Is the Place and the zoo, Utah Olympic Park and Snowbird."

That would be some day, I suggested. A person might never have to take a tour again for the rest of his life. Or want to.

Laura agreed.

"It would take a lot of Red Bull and a full tank of gas," she said.

And when your $20 vacation was finished, you could sleep it off in your own bed.

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