Nothing derails my plans faster than making them public

Explore the entire length of US-191! Yeah! It’s a plan! It’s an adventure! I got all the way from Douglas to Safford, a mere 125 miles, a third of a tank of gas when, whee, here came a monkey wrench. A very pleasant one, but a monkey wrench nonetheless.

I got a message from a friend/former coworker in Santa Ana, California. He’s retiring. There’s going to be a party. In Santa Ana. A lot of people I haven’t seen in a while will be there. In Santa Ana. Five-hundred-something miles away.

I don’t want to miss it.

So either a trip to the Coast and back becomes a really long “rib” in my original plan, or I make a new plan.