Entry 2 - The Plan

Once Mom and I committed to taking the trip it was time to come up with a plan. One of my favorite parts about traveling is the preparation and research you do before the trip. A trip might only be a couple weeks long, but if you put in weeks or even months of research and planning it extends the trip and makes it that much more fun and fulfilling.

First was to pick the dates. We settled on the Christmas and New Year's break - Dec. 25- Jan. 7. Second, was to pick the major destination cities. We live in Los Angeles so driving to the midwest was a trek. None the less, we knew we had to hit Kansas City and Memphis as those are two of the best known BBQ cities (North Carolina is a bit far and all those TV shows say they have so much BBQ it warrants its own trip). Because of time restraints we decided Memphis was as far east as we could go.

We'll be hitting (start in Los Angeles):
* Santa Fe
* Amarillo
* Oklahoma City
* Wichita
* Kansas City
* St. Louis
* Memphis
* Little Rock
* Dallas
* Austin
* El Paso
* Phoenix

I mapped it out so you can see the route we'll be taking.