CONGRATULATIONS on your new machine, hope the 2 of you have many happy hours together. Enjoy the leaf-peeping, I've heard that it's at peak, but the trees are just beginning to change here in MA. When my daughter lived in TX she requested that my DH and I go leaf-peeping and take lots and lots of pictures, seems she was homesick for NH and all the trees, since she was living in Lubbock, TX at the time and there were few trees. Her GF was attending Texas A & M at the same time and had the same request of her parents. Enjoy and maybe find a couple quilt shops along the way.