Joy’s grandmother made this recognition four years ago.
When Brad Ryan returned home after another year of study at a veterinary school, he hoped to simply be with his family and escape from constant stress related to study.
However, in a conversation with her grandmother, telling her about her travels and adventures, he was surprised to learn that she had never seen an ocean, a forest, a mountain, nor prairie – everything that America was so famous for. .
Joy’s grandmother made this recognition four years ago. And then Brad spontaneously invited her to go to the mountains together.
And the grandmother agreed!
All her life she lived in a small village in a private house in Ohio. Raising children, engaged in economy, she never had a chance to explore her homeland in her whole life.
At that time she was already 85 years old. She went with a cane, but she liked the idea of traveling around the country with her grandson.
“When we walked around the mountains, all the people we met were very impressed with my grandmother. Indeed, on such routes you rarely meet older people with grandchildren. And I do not like the very thought that you can live all forgotten, lonely, and there is nothing to remember – not adventure, nothing. Grandma has nothing to tell about her life, and I decided to give her topics for such stories. ”
For four years, Brad drove his grandmother to 29 national parks of America, which discovered completely different landscapes for her – from powerful forests with immense trees to sandy dunes, from a vast and noisy ocean against the background of high rocks to impressive canyons. And everywhere grandmother was glad to experience something new, try what she had never encountered before. Despite the quite venerable age, she stubbornly, albeit slowly, but still climbed to the tops of the mountains, and in the desert even dumped from the dunes on purpose – simply because she was interested in trying it.
“Look at the world through the eyes of her grandmother, who wakes up every morning and thanks God for being still alive, you know, it taught me a lot,” Brad admits.
“With her, I have to slow down and look at the world differently.”
Now Brad has already completed his studies and works in one of the national zoos. But he still continues to carry his grandmother according to the sights of America in his free time.
He also took her to the university, where he studied, showed where the veterinarians are now teaching and how it works. Brad drove Joy’s grandmother to geysers, dams, waterfalls and botanical gardens.
