A look into the future ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An elderly Australian couple evaded police on a 1,400 mile journey by car and bus after setting off in protest when the wife was denied an extension of her driving license because of old age.

Tom and Marian Foulkes, both in their 80s, drove from their Melbourne home in the southern state of Victoria to the north of New South Wales state and halfway back again, avoiding police searching for them. [...]

Paul Foulkes, who reported his parents missing, said they were afraid of losing their independence as his father had earlier lost his driving license.

Foulkes said his parents, married for 38 years and both with varying degrees of dementia, enjoyed their escapade.

"They said they had had a good time, they described it as a holiday, they weren't very happy to have been caught at all, they wanted to keep going," he said.

OK, I *LOVE* this. When I hit my 80s and am suffering from dementia, I am TOTALLY going on a cross-country joy ride with the husband. Live large, grandma. Live large.