Planning our trip

Our trip has been a dream for nearly 25 years.  Planning the itinerary alone, took almost a year.  Each member of our family picked one "must see" place and a number of "like to see" places.  So our planned itinerary is a combinations of the dreams and desires of each of us.  Then we sat down to the task of seeing how, or even if, these lists of places would fit into the trip.  Some did not, but most did.  We plan to take a northern route on our westward journey, drive south through much of CA, and then take a southern route on our eastward journey.   We have great plans, and yet we know that nothing ever goes the way it is planned, so we know the trip itself might not look much like (or even anything, like) the plan.  Regardless, we know it will be an adveture and we are all very excited to get it underway.