THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH - these are wonderful ideas and caveats. I will check them out and then decide which it will be. Really appreciated and love this forum for this reason. Always helpful!

Here's a link to a thread about our 4-day road trip in the Hudson Valley in May 2012. We didn't get to see everything we wanted to see - 5 days would be better!

http://www.fodors.com/community/unit...y-262177-2.cfm