... and Work your Plan

Two worrisome aspects of this trip in planning loomed over me, each offering a bone juicier than the last to my inner OCD.

Unable to gather enough energy (and awake time, if truth be known) to obsessively over-analyze both of them in tandem to my usually proficient level of zeal, vigor, and bullet-pointed list-making, I decided to harness the power of compulsion first in planning the trip to the nth degree.

I will save the panic over traveling alone for a time closer to the date of departure, confident that once I book flights, accommodations, cars, etc., there is no way my ego would allow me to cancel.

Divide and conquer I always say.