Regular “Under The Wire” readers will have noticed several of my recent columns have mentioned vacations. That is not because Sue and I have been going on so many. In fact, just the opposite is true. We hardly ever find time to travel for fun. Since we seem to be surrounded by folks who do, we have been working on a way we just might be able to pull one off.

So far, as close as we have come was a trip to Sue’s hometown of Riverton, Kan., where I got lost on my way to a convenience store and wound up just outside of Tulsa, Okla., and another drive, this time pulling a large flatbed trailer to r...