And now we have a schedule

So we finally finalized our route the other day. Here’s the recap of that:

But when last we left off, we still weren’t sure about the schedule. There were two competing options which boiled down to “the original plan” and “move it up half a week” so that some weekday/weekend logistics would be easier. Selfishly, that was difficult for a number of reasons, mostly because of how busy we all are in August.

The solution, gracefully obvious but entirely illusive, was simple: push it out half a week instead. And here we have it:

We’ll probably swap out a few of these stopovers as we figure out where to actually do things and what we want to see. Between books and maps to pore over and a few locals to talk to who’ve made the trip.

A thing I said to George that freaked us both out when he dropped me at the airport on Tuesday:

See you in Seattle!