Jump in the car and go

The devil is in the details, but if you're going to obsess over the details before they even show up, you could be losing out on a whole lot of life.

I'm not knocking being prepared. but there are fewer steps to being prepared than some people believe.

A working car, a gps, enough money to eat on and pay for a place to sleep, the right clothes, and life's adventures are much more fun than frightening.

So you make a few mistakes!  Most of them are no more dangerous than going around the block an extra time or two as long as you don't panic.  They might even take you into more interesting places.

I find people pretty much the same everywhere I go.  Most of them are kind enough and glad to be helpful, but common sense says I need to trust my own instincts more than those of strangers.

If you can fill your car with gas, read the signs along the highway, and follow your gps: you are better equipped than most of the wagon trains that traveled across the country, you are safer than Johnny Appleseed was as he walked around sowing apple trees, and you are way ahead of Little Red Riding Hood when she went to see her grandmother.

Just pull yourself together and go while you are young enough to drive the car.