Deciding where to stay and how to get there required the fine hand of Bonnie, the logistics' expert. Finding attractions, lodging, and the fastest routes required precision and accuracy, and took hours, days, weeks of planning. Finding that we would get a Significant Organizational Discount at Choice Hotels made the hotel choices easy. We booked 11 months ahead; again, she who hesitates loses the special rates. Bonnie wasn't satisfied to let the reservations collect dust over the long months of waiting. Every month, starting six months prior to blastoff, she would check the hotel prices, and if there was a decrease, we would book at the lower rate, then cancel the previous reservation. Some might find it tedious to check 22 hotel rates every month, but Bonnie (and the rest of us) thought it was worth the savings of over $100. That does not include the Las Vegas and Laughlin NV savings, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
We had the car, we had the rooms, we knew the attractions and routes to get us there, and that left a vital part unfinished - where would we eat our 72 meals?
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