I learned at a young age that plans don't work out.
A friend and myself did some years of hitchhiking around the country back in the late 70's, early 80's.
We pretty much threw a dart to decide where we were going to go. It was the PLAN. We were headed for Freedom, CA.
We were picked up by a trucker and he said to us, "There's nothing in Freedom for you girls. You should go to Santa Cruz."
That's only the beginning of the story. That was the end of making PLANS.