Last year my kids had a complicated schedule of vacations that didn't overlap with one with one another's, nor with my wife's, which gave me an opportunity to cook up a complicated tour that left very little flexibility about the timing. If the weather didn't cooperate, we had no wiggle room. All in all it was a success, but I'd rather not do it the same way again. In fact, that tour began exactly a year ago today, bringing my daughter and me to The Historian's house, where we spent the first night.

Anyway, this year is different. My daughter had to be satisfied with a 45 mile day trip, but that's not bad for a ten year old on a three speed bike, right? Next week and the week after that, my son has two weeks off, in which I plan to plan something, weather permitting. It's tempting to plan something now, but I'm going to wait until I see three or four days of good weather coming up on the forecast, and then work with it. So I look at the weather every day... but I don't see it yet!