The Plan, 2/16.

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The plan?

No plan.

I had a good trip last time at Xmas, but I stage managed it a bit too much in retrospect. I looked back at my "The Plan" post before that trip and compared it to the Post Mortem, and damn if it isn't almost a perfect match.

I made 3 dinner reservations in 4 nights, added a movie and a myVegas redemption for a specific spot. It all added up to a good trip but there wasn't much in the way of spontaneity built in. It felt like I was following a script, and while the script was good, that's not always the best way to do Vegas.

So I did the script last time; this time there's not even a crib note. It's a quick 3-day trip, I'm (probably) not going to make any dinner reservations (TBH I usually just sit at the bar of any resto I go to anyway, so there's not much point) and I'm not going to plan anything outside of whatever myVegas redemption I cash in, which likely will be in NYNY anyway, so no big whoop.

My May trip will need to be a little more "planny" as I have the Cure show to go to, so I can get into some specifics for food and such on that one, but this one I'm going rogue.

"Oh that magic feeling, no where to go".

Less than a month now.

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