Thought I Married a "Planner"

So, I guess it's time to answer the first question that everybody asks, which is "So where are you going on your road trip?" Our usual answer is "Uh, kind of everywhere in the U.S. and Canada." That answer, I've been sensing, isn't very satisfying to most people, but it's kind of hard to explain where we're going without getting out a map or atlas or something, and you'd be surprised, but usually when people ask that question, there never seems to be a good North America map around.

But thanks to the miracle of modern technology, I now present to you a map that kinda sorta shows where we're thinkin of going on this trip:


Man, that there's a big freaking country.

Anyway, Kathy has mocked me endlessly for mapping this trip in such detail. She wants to keep the trip spontaneous and go wherever the wind blows us on any particular day. So, actually, she has yet to completely see the map shown above. Translation: our actual route may not bear any resemblance to the map shown above.

Anyway, I'm all for spontaneity, freedom of the road, yadda yadda, but my anal sensibilities refuse to let me go on this kind of trip without researching it to death. And at least figuring out ahead of time all the must-go places. After all, if I hadn't bought all these books to research this trip, I might never have known about Carhenge. Or Wisconsin's House on the Rock, which has it's very own "Infinity Room":


I don't know under what logic 218 feet equals "infinity", but how sad would it be to miss seeing infinity in person just due to bad planning?