We made the right choice to cancel today.
The plan was to leave at 5 am. For those of you not from Long Island: there are a limited number of ways off this island. And this summer has been dubbed " The Summer of Hell" because of the work being done to Penn STation in NYC and the resulting ripples to all commuters. If we had hoped to make the 4 hour drive upstate in time for an 11:15 tour, I wanted us to be on the road by 5:15.)
I woke her up at 4:45, we spoke for a few minutes, and I told her to go back to sleep.
IT’s now 12:30 pm, and she’s still asleep. While she could easily have slept through the 6 hour drive, she would have needed to be awake an hour and a half ago.