Today begins our first of several upcoming road trips. The Wife and I are going to Wisconsin this time, to visit family for Mother’s Day. We did Mother’s Day early with my mother; now it’s time for The Wife’s mother and my grandmother. We’ll be much farther away from them in a month than we are today. (And it gets us out of Tennessee.) It’s supposed to be a twelve-hour drive, which makes for a long day. So of course, The Wife is vacuuming the house before we leave. I’m sure there’s a good reason for that.