Up in the Ottawa Valley, the plan is complete. Laundry is churning even as I type, so we'll have something to wear when we get there, and the dreaded List (stuff not to forget) is under construction.

Cute as it is, the new car is smaller than the (much missed) indigo-blue station wagon, so the stowage geometry of instruments, bedding and baggage has yet to be worked out.

We leave after work on Thursday, flop for the night somewhere near Syracuse NY, and arrive on Friday.