#1444 theoldmortuary ponders.

How do you plan the perfect road trip?

Writing this from a road trip seems the ideal location to ponder perfection.

In many respects this will be an anti-perfection ponder. A road trip needs just enough planning to provide a scaffold of ideas that serendipity can build upon. I realise that many people need certainty but we are not those people.

This was the sunset last night at a location we had not expected to visit this year. The Ice Saints brought inclement weather so we headed further south a little earlier than anticipated.

Before this road trip I was unaware of Ice Saints. More on them below.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2013/may/10/weatherwatch-cold-may-ice-saints?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

My rural childhood had a clothing/weather saying.

” Ne’re cast a clout, ’til May is out”

Don’t get rid of any clothing layers until June.

Last night in a moment of folklore defiance I gave up my socks for camping sleeping. Nothing bad happened.

And that is why perfection on a road trip is not about planning but a lot about Serendipity.