I tend to do a heck of a lot of planning before trips, I use Garmin mapping software to plan routes, identify all the possible interesting places to see that are not too far off the logical route, allocate time to visit them, work out possible overnight stops, blah, blah.
And then when I'm on the road I change my mind and my trip ends up looking nothing like the plan.
The main thing is to spend time researching overnight stops and interesting places you could visit—there's nothing worse than finding out there was a fabulous place you could have seen which was only five minutes off your route.
Have a very, very rough idea of what your trip might look like and then only plan in detail one or two days ahead, then it can change with weather conditions, how you feel, etc. I once planned to stop in one place two nights and ended up staying for eleven. So much for my plans!
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