The blank canvas is the most difficult to draw upon. My experiences with drawing and designing have taught me this, but it also seems to apply to planning. When you have to fill 48 days with meaningful work, and an entire city to work with, where do you start?
If all else fails grab your paper and pencil, pick some random object nearby, and just start scribbling. Once you've made that first mark all you can really do is keep improving on it. After staring at maps and calendars for far too long, with a lack of anything better to do I drew a long line to mark out every day I'll be abroad. Then I added my flights in and out. So I made myself a happy little container to fill up-- still empty, but at least there was more or less something of a picture frame. I then haphazardly began throwing ideas onto the calendar, getting the first scribbles out there before realizing such things as "it really doesn't make sense to go from Barcelona to Madrid, to Cordoba, and then to Bilbao." So rules of real life began to shape the blind guesses I first made, and voila! in no time at all I had a rough outline of the schedule.
It still needs lots of work, but it's a beginning. For all of you planning-types out there, think about taking a drawing class the next time you feel stuck.
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