Bumfuzzled

Exactly! Couldn't have put it better!

Montreal is about 2 hours from Ottawa, when you count in the heavy traffic at all of the many bridges you have to cross to get to her house on the other side of Montreal.

But we travel a lot. Most of our family visits entail anywhere from 6 to 15 hour drives. We travel well together, with good music and easy-going conversations to fill in the hours. The journeying is usually an enjoyable part of the vacation.

Part of the bumfuzzlement could have come from inhaling all that plaster dust. But then that doesn't explain the other too-numerous-to-mention-here-even-if-I-am-notoriously-long-winded episodes of bumfuzzlement.