Ok. It’s clearly preference. I don’t like driving North-South through central NY and PA. We try to always head west to Erie and then south through Butler and Pittsburgh. We prefer highways to county roads.
I haven’t ever drive East-West or vice versa through PA so I have no opinion there.
Your back way might be the key.
I think the trip to OBX one of the harder ones. Or I did from NY. The Delmarva peninsula and CBBT are beautiful, but the stop and go can take time.
This summer, we have been testing the kids out with short day trips, Philly & the DC area. About 2 hours one way. We have had no complaints from them. They seem to enjoy getting out after being stuck around the home area for so long. So here’s hoping we survive.
If ordering Magic Bands these days, do it well in advance.
We booked our Pop stay awhile back, but I didn’t order new bands Until I finally scored our CSR reservation - but still, I placed the order on July 8th for a July 29th check in.
Bands didn’t ship until the 13th, then the Post Office intermittently sat on them.
We’re leaving super early in the morning, but as of now they are listed as out for delivery, so looks like we might have lucked out! (Hope I didn’t jinx myself.)
I’ve also been waiting for a Sam’s Club Plus order for Nuun electrolyte powder. Ordered it way back, has been in “recently placed order” for more than a week, chat support kept saying it was waiting to be picked up - for 7 days!
Finally got a Fedex shipping notification 2 days ago, said it would be delivered today - then it sat in that location until today. So, guess I’ll be really hydrated after I get home.
(When Sam’s shipping works normally, it is great. When it doesn’t it is a pain and their support people are robots who have absolutely no useful info or get anything done.)
Yay! The ones we ordered for our April trip came after we had left home. We had a few nights at UOR ahead of our WDW stay. If the WDW had been first, they would have come on time. Oh well.
At our company, we keep having to deal with giant batches of lost mail when our accounts payable sends checks out.
Right now the checks they sent out over 6 weeks ago are just getting cashed by our utilities and vendors - my calling Verizon etc to tell them the check is in the mail has become a full time job on top of my regular job!
Oh yeah. Those grey bands. Lol. But they did have different colors behind the front desk. My DS lost his every time he went swimming. It was pink, his request, and the front desk gave him a new pink one every time
My husband also requests gray every time. I looked back on MDE at our past bands - DH is almost always gray, DS is almost always blue, I’m blue or purple, and DD has had like four colors. She is very proud of herself for this!