The best line from that movie, atmo. My wife and I say it to each other all the time.
I forgot to add:
To all the points about the bathrooms being an inflection point in the OP's plan ... good point, though I see workarounds. You can get portapots for camper vans that don't have a head and a tank, nbd. She wouldn't care, so I'll tell: after our second was born this year, my madre, godblessher, peed by the side of a road in WV on her way down here to see the new baby.*
And if a campout in the driveway is too much to stomach, you can also split the baby by counting out an agreed-upon number of days in the driveway since their last honest to goodness time being near another person (which could well be avoided on their trip - we just pulled off a 1,900 mile round trip to Michigan for my mom's 60th in my bigass Ford Econoline a couple weeks ago and managed not to make actual contact with anybody outside of our intended family contacts). I.e., your Dad goes to the eye doctor on the first of the month, they leave the third and it takes three days... voila they're on your doorstep five days (the median onset of symptons) after last contact, or two weeks or whatever you decide sounds like a safe span to become close contacts.
*babies are hard; kids are hard; families need family. That should be enough to close the risk vs. reward shop, now that I think of it... almost every family I know with a child under three traveled to be with family for an extended time just to get some help. One family left to do a month in FL; another a month in TX (that's a helluva story); another a month in IA; another had a sister come to town from NY for a month. It's bloody hard when parents are supposed to work whilst handling home duties, too. I do a mix of stay at home dad and work from home/work out in the world, irrespective of pandemics. Shite's a lot to handle! If it were ebola and tanks were in the streets that's one thing, but with most people's obligations continuing, in spite of the childcare rug swept out from under them (or just the fact of having a new baby), that would seal the deal for moi, ymmv, etc.
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