- to document my activities as I plan for this trip, which is unlikely to take place in my immediate future; and
- to keep the Viewers At Home, however many I may have acquired by the time of my departure, up-to-date and informed about my progress throughout the year.
As I see it, determining the route I will follow on my voyage is one of the things that need to be done before I even load the car. Luckily enough, I was able to accomplish this in a couple lunch breaks:
Giving credit where it is due, I hereby award a Gold Star to Microsoft's MapPoint 2006 for calculating what seems to be an acceptable solution to a 48-node Traveling Salesman Problem.
I did tweak the path myself a bit, just to add a couple of sightseeing opportunities and whatnot.
