My husband and I had reservations a year in advance to go down into the canyon on mules and spend the night at the phantom ranch THREE different times.
We never got to go because the first two years my Mom went into a hospital the day before we were scheduled to leave.
My sister planned to fly out to care for Mom and the livestock the third year so NOTHING could stop us and I would finally get to go.
That year 9-11 happened and she couldn't fly out during the two weeks of no commercial aircraft flights.
Guess we both need to add to our "Bucket " lists