Different Personalitites

So Mich and I survived our trip together, though we have different personalities and ways of handling stress. Mich likes to casually get the lay of the land and explore. She also suffers from a severe case of SOS (Shiny Object Syndrome). Whereas I'm a planner. Planning allows you to be prepared and not waste time in my opinion. Thanks to Mich's insistence that we not plan everything, So Mich and I survived our trip together, though we have different personalities and ways of handling stress. Mich likes to casually get the lay of the land and explore. She also suffers from a severe case of SOS (Shiny Object Syndrome). Whereas I'm a planner. I have so much time planned for this locale and onto the next. Planning allows you to be prepared and not waste time in my opinion. Thanks to Mich's insistence that we not plan everything, we have some funny stories and adventures. One of the pitfalls of not planning on a road trip such as ours is realizing the lack of places to stop for refreshments or a restroom. We had days where the game plan was to do the quick drive-thru and move on, but when you're on a two lane road in the mountains, there isn't anything.

Because we decided to go off the beaten track with our jaunt along the lighthouse sightseeing tour, we discovered some quaint towns with cute museums and Fort Henry, except if we'd planned in advance, we would have known these places were closed. Fort Henry was the worst offender though due to the desperate need for a restroom. The fort, museum, and restaurant were all closed, but there were outside restrooms. The women's door was locked, so we made use of the men's room, which received my vote for worst facilities of our trip. The running cesspool in the middle of the floor was revolting and in second place with the port-a-potty I had to use in New Hampshire, where there were no public restrooms.

But planning had it's pitfalls as well. We arranged our hotel rooms for Bar Harbor well in advance, planning to stay at the Holiday Inn the first night and a swanky resort the second night. Turns out the Holiday Inn was nicer and an overall better experience than the overpriced resort, where the only perk I saw was easy parking while in the harbor area. Our third night in Bar Harbor we returned to the Holiday Inn, wishing we could have stayed there the whole time rather than bouncing hotels.

Though I'm a type-A personality and Mich is more a fly by the seat of her pants type of gal, we seemed to get along really well the whole trip. We both had to be flexible and adapt with all the changes that arose. And Mich was a bit shocked that I didn't stop her SOS moments, but rather participated in extending our activities and drives, so we were never on time to anything. Overall, a wonderful trip where Mich and I didn't get tired of being together for 24 hours a day/ 11 days and actually kept each other quite entertained.