{"id":3831,"date":"2022-09-19T12:57:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T16:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/?p=3831"},"modified":"2022-09-19T13:07:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T17:07:37","slug":"92-year-old-grandma-grandson-on-mission-to-visit-every-us-national-park-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2022\/09\/19\/92-year-old-grandma-grandson-on-mission-to-visit-every-us-national-park-together\/","title":{"rendered":"92-year-old Grandma &#038; Grandson on Mission to Visit every US National Park Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Ryan, 41, and his 92-year-old grandmother, Joy Ryan, are nearing the finish line on a goal they once thought was impossible: visiting all 63 U.S. national parks together.<\/p>\n<p>The duo from Duncan Falls, Ohio, kicked off their adventure in October 2015, when Brad was looking for a way to spend a three-day weekend during veterinary school. He said the idea was sparked by a conversation he had with &#8220;Grandma Joy&#8221; about his past adventures on the Appalachian Trail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt bad that she was always living vicariously through my stories,&#8221; Brad told &#8220;GMA.&#8221; &#8220;And so just knowing that she had never seen deserts and mountains and the ocean and these incredible wild places on Earth, it just felt like a responsibility that I had to her to make sure that she had some memories to take away in her life story as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brad invited his grandma on a weekend trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, anticipating it would be their only excursion together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t assume going into that that your 85-year-old grandmother going with you on a camping trip is going to be anything less than challenging,&#8221; Brad said. &#8220;That was my fault. That was my misperception of what age means and more importantly, what her spirit would allow her to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Continue below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=12180605\" width=\"476\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Ryan, 41, and his 92-year-old grandmother, Joy Ryan, are nearing the finish line on a goal they once thought was impossible: visiting all 63 U.S. national parks together. The duo from Duncan Falls, Ohio, kicked off their adventure in October 2015, when Brad was looking for a way to spend a three-day weekend during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3831"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}