Though a date hasn't been set, at least not in any permanent sense, there are already plana afoot that would make last year's Big Ass Road Trip seem almost small by comparison.

What's on the menu?

Well, as you can tell from the image above, Glacier National Park is one of the intended highlights. The "what else" is where things get fun. And a bit mad. We've already talked about spending a couple of nights in Las Vegas again, which would mean that a brief stop in Flagstaff, Arizona is likely to be included as well. That means the meteor crater near Winslow might be a fun sight to see along the way. There's also my wife's strong desire to revisit Grand Tetons National Park and spend a bit more time there than we did last year. There's talk of San Francisco, a drive up the California coast, and a stop at the Redwood National and State Parks. And since Glacier is one of the key points of interest and Yellowstone lies in between that and the Tetons, well ... it looks like a second trip to Yellowstone is in the works as well. 

Which is fine by me. Yellowstone is huge and we barely scratched the surface of what there is to see the first time around. 

Handling the logistics of a trip that size is where things get tricky. Where do we visit first? How long do we spend in each location? Will we break up some of the longer drives by stopping overnight in some town halfway in between? Will I screw up again like last year and convince everyone that our next drive is just four hours when it's *in rather startling reality* closer to eight?

Author's Note: that last conundrum was not entirely my fault. I had been looking at several different routes that morning, for all the varying legs of our journey, and managed to simply confuse one with the other. I told that to my passengers. They were unimpressed.