When it's May....we're chasing!

Things look like they've crystallized for our May chasing trip to the Plains. I'll be meeting my brother (who is driving up from Austin) at the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport the morning of May 7th, meaning I get my rear end out of bed at oh-dark-thirty that day to catch my flight. Hopefully there will be something worth chasing that day, and we'll have several hours to drive in the appropriate direction to set up for the chase. Then, it's o'er the Plains we go for nine days, culminating in my flight back East on the 16th. Given that (a) we're spending a week and a half this time and (b) it's an odd-numbered year (even-numbered years haven't been kind to us) we're hoping that we can catch some action. We haven't been totally shut out the past couple of trips, but it says something when I've seen more tornadoes back here than I have out west.
I will miss having my son and daughter-in-law along this year, but with a new baby boy coupled with a change in job and a resulting relocation a chase trip is not in the cards for them this time.