How the planners plan

I've been painstakingly "updating" my CV (and by updating I mean the following: 1) creating a CV from scratch, with all of the entries from my resume, and 2) constantly rearranging for hierarchy by a) dates b) name c) location). When I get distracted from this task, I check out the contents of my zip drive. What did I so recently find in a file marked "others"? My Road Trip 2006 Itinerary. Special. Why, here's a snippet to explain to you the lengths I went to ensure my safe arrival to each destination city on my solo cross-country road trip to school.

Day 6 Sun. 7/23
Chamberlain > Badlands, Wall, Black Hills, Mt. Rushmore > Custer, SD
Total Distance today: 240mi
Route: I-90 to Rapid City, Rt. 16? to Custer

Leave 6am, Arrive 10am (9am there) Badlands Nat’l Park
Distance to Badlands, Wall: 155mi

1. Oacoma on I-90, Exit 170
Sights: 1880 Town and Longhorn Ranch, 6am-dusk

2. Badlands Nat’l Park:
Sights: Visitor’s Center, $10/car, 9am to 4pm
West on Rte240/Loop Rd. in NE portion of park, pass Pinnacles Overlook, N on 1-90 to exit.
Ranch Store, off exit 131 on E. entrance to loop, WL prairie dog, 7:30am – 8pm
Exit 90 right at Wall, SD
Arrive 11am

3. Wall Drug
Sights: Wall Drug, 510 Main St., 6am-10pm
Distance to Rapid City: 50mi
Arrive 1pm

4. Rapid City:
Sights: WL seal, Dino Park, Quincy St and Skyline Drive, free
Reptile Gardens, 8955 S. Highway 16, 5 mi S of town, 8am – 7pm, $11
Journey Museum, 322 New York St., 9am-5pm
Distance to Mt. Rushmore:
30mi
Arrive: 4pm

5. Mt Rushmore
Sights: Rushmore Borglum Story, Alt rt. 16 in Keystone, 8am-7pm, $7
National Memorial, tours every hour on the half-hour, 8am-10pm,
Presidential’s Trail to Borglum’s Studio, 9am -6pm, ranger talk at 5pm
9pm – 11pm is lightup of Amphitheatre
Distance to Custer: 15mi, taking Alt US 16
south to Custer State Park

Custer:
Lodging: Days Inn, 519 Crook St.
Custer, SD, $100, CALL, LATE
CHECK-IN!
OR check in, return to Mt. Rushmore for evening show

Awww, I miss that. This year I'll be packing up the kitty cat, three plants, Trav(!) and make our way in some fashion to Chicago. I'm sure all of my plans will be obliterated by that point. No chance to see "WL" anything (that's "World Largest" in LEW-speak) or remembering to "CALL, LATE CHECK-IN!".