Epiphany

So, at our wedding, Mark and Erika were doing this crazy thing. They were sitting down with maps and planning out their route home. They highlighted things, figured out how far apart things were, and decided what they wanted to see in the time they had.

hm.

Up until now, we´ve been militantly anti-plan. We´re lucky if we skim the guidebook the day after we arrive in a country. And it´s been working out OK. But we´ve felt rushed the whole time, like we were supposed to be somewhere further south already.

So the other day, we did a revolutionary thing. We took out our maps (Harry and Doris sold us some buenissimo German maps, so now we have maps of places we haven´t been yet) and we planned out our trip.

wow.

It´s revolutionized everything. We feel like we know where we´re going. We know when we plan to get there. We´ve figured out what we want to see, and where we want to go. And we should, gods and roads willing, be able to see it all and still get to Brazil before money and time run out. And it´s amazingly relaxing!! We don´t feel like we´re supposed to be somewhere else anymore!!

wow.