NZ Planning Done! Kind Of.
Mar. 25th, 2024 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerYesterday we spent a lot of time planning our upcoming trip to New Zealand. It took longer than I thought, and still we weren't done. Sometimes, though, a goal seems so far away for so long you don't realize how close you're getting. I know that's true when hiking a mountain. Like at Flag Hill the weekend before last, the summit towers above and gets closer so gradually that it's hard to tell you're even halfway up until you're 90% of the way up. This evening it struck me with planning this trip that we only had to book 5 more nights of hotels and make a few decisions on tour tickets— and we had leads on both. "We can finish this tonight, after dinner," I told Hawk. "I think we can knock it out in 45 minutes."
Well, like everything else in planning this trip, it took more than the 45 minutes I forecast. There was some re-planning of stuff we already thought was done. Three steps forward, two steps back. But now we're done! ...Well, kind of. Like my grandfather's "completed" crossword puzzles, there's a letter in every box. They may even be the right letters. 😅
What I mean by that is that though all our flights, cars, and hotel nights are booked, and we have short-lists of things to do every day— there's "a letter in every box"— we'll almost certainly end up re-planning things. But it feels good to know that we're done enough with the planning we could pretty much just stop here and wait to start enjoying the trip. Only 12 more days until we leave!
Well, like everything else in planning this trip, it took more than the 45 minutes I forecast. There was some re-planning of stuff we already thought was done. Three steps forward, two steps back. But now we're done! ...Well, kind of. Like my grandfather's "completed" crossword puzzles, there's a letter in every box. They may even be the right letters. 😅
What I mean by that is that though all our flights, cars, and hotel nights are booked, and we have short-lists of things to do every day— there's "a letter in every box"— we'll almost certainly end up re-planning things. But it feels good to know that we're done enough with the planning we could pretty much just stop here and wait to start enjoying the trip. Only 12 more days until we leave!
