Mr. Lyons and I drove over 500 miles Monday (had to be home in time to feed the menagerie! haha) amid cloudy skies and a cloudy forecast for, yep, you guessed it – more clouds.

About an hour before our intended destination, he was studying the current satellite feeds and shifted where he thought we should go – ending up toward the direction where I had been wanting to go all along, haha. Regardless, it became a race against the clock to see if we could make it to a spot that might allow for...