I’m planning on starting the Olympic Grand Circle on July 16th in Olympia. That’s 120 days from today, and it seems like I haven’t really done much to prepare. Then again, maybe I have. I have certainly gone over the route in my mind (almost every day since I first came up with the plan), and I’ve paddled at least half of the course already, in separate pieces. Still, there are always things that slip through the cracks in the planning process, perhaps with consequences later on, once the trip is underway.
For the next 120 days, my job is to find those elusive items and ensure that I have as many of the cracks filled in as I possibly can.