Go you! I find that plans are a good thing, even if they result in smackdowns. Sometimes when we're lost, that smacking around is the only way we can find our way. The plan is never the problem. The refusal to regard the signposts along the way is usually what causes the pain.

Speaking of clothes, I saw this and thought of you.

Re: The Pacific NW. I've been dreaming about it, myself, and would like to spend more time there, explore the environment more deeply. Maybe we should get a cabin. You could live there and I would visit every now and then. (You'd also be welcome in my other home, probably in CO or the SW, or the beach house in Northern CA.)