For a few months, Jim and I have been talking about a trip across country. I’m pretty sure it was really me that wanted to do it and he was just going along with it. He finds it much easier that way. He kept telling me to plan it out. So, for three weeks, every night, I went to Google Maps and started plotting and planning. I was being really careful to make sure that we drove no more than 7 hours in any one day, that there was a hotel somewhere close to where that 7 hours ended, and that there was something I really wanted to see near the end of the 7 hours or at least something I wanted to pay at least a passing glance to along the way. In the case of this trip, it was adding new states to the ones I’d already seen which were pretty much just the eastern seaboard states and we’ve both seen those too many times.
Now the main problem in the planning was that most of the stuff I really wanted to see was in the western states. What’s more, they were pretty much laid out in big zigzagging paths…lots of back tracking. It was really frustrating me but I finally got what I thought was a really EXCELLENTLY GOOD PLAN.
The EXCELLENTLY GOOD PLAN sort of ended the first day. We only made it as far as Batavia, NY….what can I say, there was a casino there. After that Jim took over the plan. It didn’t look anything like mine and he carefully pretended to be totally deaf whenever I pointed out a casino sign. Did you know that there are probably 20 casinos just off every interstate in every state? We didn’t stop at any of them… after saying “huh?” a couple of times He’d say “Casino or Canyon? Take your choice” usually just AFTER he *missed* the exit for the casino.
I really liked my plan. I worked hard on it…*sigh*