Excellent everyone. I really appreciate all the input.
Plan now is for everyone but me to fly round trip so we won’t spend so much time getting there and back. I can only cover about 200 miles a day before everyone is ready to stop, so it makes the long hauls take awhile. I have looked into reservations. Many of the national parks are blocked out and you can’t reserve until the week of Dec 18th, some until Feb. So I have some busy weeks coming up trying to win the proverbial lottery so we can stay in some hot spots. If not, we will go for plan b and then plan c.