Susan Hodara stared at the latest photo of her granddaughter, Eden, a round-faced, dark-eyed beauty of a baby. More than 1,700 miles stretched between them; with Hodara living in New York, and little Eden, who just turned 1, growing up in Denver. Just that morning, Ariel, Hodara’s daughter, had texted that the baby was unwell, and she wished her mother were there to help.
“I’d love to be able to do that,” Hodara says. “And I thought, ‘I’m just going to go online, look at flights and see how much they are.’ But it’s not just the flights. I’d have to get to LaGuardia airport. Travel will take the whole day and I’m going to be tired. Traveling is getting worse and worse and more and more expensive. This is the constant dilemma.”