40 www. ReadMPM. com | www. VOICE forRea l Es tate. com | www.MountPl easantBu i lder s . com BY R I CHARD TODD Road Trip One Local Reflects on the Power of the Open Road It’s a ritual that you were likely subjected to as a child and now want to try out with your own offspring. No matter how it turned out, it ended up being one of the best memories you could ever make. For my son and me, our road trip was much more than a rite of passage. It was a journey of grieving and healing that started as a quest to fulfill part of a life cut way too short. When my lovely wife, Mary, found out she had breast cancer, she fought it like a champ. It shouldn’t take a lifethreatening disease to remind anyone that tomorrow is not guaranteed, but when we realized time was not on our side, we started planning the trip of a lifetime that might well be her last. New York City and Boston were on her “bucket list.” Unfortunately, she never got to see them. When my then-9-year-old son, who looked to me for, well, everything, and I were staring down the prospect of The Family
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