Plans often change

We had a family vacation planned for this last weekend to go up to New Hampshire to see the leaves changing colors and do some hiking. It was Columbus Day weekend and the kids had Monday off from school. Our plan was to leave when they got home on Friday and make the 4 hour drive north to arrive around 7pm.

Well the plan did not work out as expected. We hit traffic the entire way up including a road closure, other people heading there for the weekend and the baseball playoffs in Boston. In the end, it took us nearly 7 hours to make the drive up and we were exhausted when we arrived.

As with our work, we can have good estimates and plans but there will always be unexpected issues which need to be resolved. And sometimes you just have to sit there and wait for them to pass