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Roy_Lynne
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Nov 19, 2013

Trip planning

OMG, sometimes I just get to the point that going fulltime sounds like the only logical conclusion. I had this trip to NM all planned,I wanted to see it all and make the loop from Farmington to Silver City to Santa Fe/Taos, stopping to see it all, bird, Native American sites/towns and shopping, geology, etc. Then someone mentioned how wonderful Big Bend NP was and I thought, we should check that out. Family in Laredo, if we are that close...,then what about going to bird the Rio Grand Valley.. and if we drive through Utah can we pass up all that? Is there ever a stopping point.
Maybe it's better not to plan, but just to go.

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  • or paraphrasing,

    No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

    As quoted in Donnybrook : The Battle of Bull Run, 1861 (2005) by David Detzer, p. 233
  • LOL, We haven't been on a long trip yet, but just looking at what we want to see and do around the country is making the list of future trips awfully long! Plus, we are always seeing something on television or in a magazine that has to go into the "folder" for future trips.
  • You need to become a full-timer...16 years of constant travel and we still haven't seen it all!
  • Hummmm Out deffinition of "trip planning" is the last hour before we leave on a trip :)
  • No matter how long I intend to be gone, I plan my trips down to the day. Generally, by the third or fourth day, I'm off the plan. I'm like a kid in a candy store. "That's only a couple hundred miles from my route." or "I'm so close to ________ that I might as well stop."
  • Roy&Lynne wrote:


    Maybe it's better not to plan, but just to go.


    Sometimes that is best, for any trip. :)
  • And don't forget that on the last day almost anyplace, you'll find out about something you didn't see and then you just have to come back.

    6+ Years FT and counting- and so much left to see . . .

    al

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