Planning is Important.

I don't know how I can stress this enough, though whenever you are going out or going on vacation, you need to know where you are going to eat and you have to plan in advance. Tomorrow, I'm taking a trip upstate which was pretty much planned spontaneously, but I needed to make sure I planned out where I was going to eat. All I really care about right now is breakfast since we're driving up in the morning. Doing plenty of research about good breakfast places in towns along the way, I've come to the conclusion that there are no places good to eat period.

Plan B: every road trip that I go on has a universal backup plan for breakfast. I generally make the effort when I don't have any plans, where I'm going to Hilton Head Island or Quebec. That one place can be seen on the highway on the east coast from North to South and it is called: CRACKER BARREL! Not an out of the ordinary place, though I never, ever see people from New York going there, it's all locals. That was my first part of the plan that I incorporated into my Google Maps directions.

Even though I have Cracker Barrel to go to, my road trip isn't complete until I can satisfy all of my traditions. I also made sure that there was a Cinnabon on the way so that I can enjoy sugar and fat all in the same ride (I usually do that on road trips though). I plugged one of the locations into my map directions and low and behold, both the Cinnabon and the Cracker Barrel are on the same route that we are taking and every mark is about 50 minutes apart which is good for digesting.

Now, because of my diligence in mapping out the road and finding my staple food stops, it will make tomorrow's road trip much better. Keep note, that a little bit of researching restaurants, any trip can be made much better. Now I need to figure out lunch.