The adventure begins!  We left  home on a  beautiful morning, only 20 minutes behind schedule!  Luckily, I had built a buffer into the schedule!  The dogs were sad….  Louis and Sally (Bobo and Gramma) drove us to DFW, and after some teary goodbyes, we were through Security (hurray for PreCheck!  – at least for ME) and on our way to JFK.