Travel Plans

Yesterday was supposed to be our last day in Philadelphia. Our travel plans had us driving back to Buffalo this morning. Then yesterday we checked our weather apps and also saw the national news which was broadcasting travel warnings on the East Coast and particularly New York and Pennsylvania concerning a storm coming through the area on Monday night and all day Tuesday that would dump 3 to 6 inches of snow in it's path. That path included, according to my weather app, Scranton, Binghamton, Syracuse and Rochester. There would also be some snow in Buffalo but not as much. I posted the map from my phone weather app which shows the storm in the morning. As the day goes on it shifts west along our travel route and the Syracuse to Rochester to Buffalo thruway fills in with snow.

Needless to say we changed our travel plans and decided to drive back to Buffalo on Wednesday when it the forecast for our entire travel route is sunny and temperatures in the 50's. Big difference. 

We began this trip on April 7th when we drove to Sean and Ashley's house for Andrew's first birthday. We stayed there for four days and left for Philadelphia on the 11th for Easter Week. We then planned to leave for home after Easter but the Monday after Easter is one of the busiest travel days of the year and we really didn't want to drive for nearly eight hours at that time. So we made plans to drive back home on Tuesday and now we have changed those plans to go home on Wednesday. It really doesn't matter to us as we luckily are retired with no special reason to be in Buffalo any time other than when we want to be there. We had so much wonderful weather on the Philly part of our trip. It felt like summer. It's too bad that storm came along. It's been cold in Philly the past couple of days but nothing like what we would have seen in NY State and upper PA.

We will now have an extra day with our grandchildren and we will drive back home on a beautiful sunny spring day rather than the previous day of a cold wintery snow storm.