I have two distinct plans in my head right now.
first, I picked up some info from the Butt LIte Grand Tour:
https://www.teamstrange.com/2021/grandtour/index.htm
I looked through the bonus locations. the Butt Lite IX details happen to be close to home for me, so I mapped out a route to 13 of the bonus locations that equate into about a 24 hour route. I won't be surprised that it'll probably take me longer than that. The point to this exercise is to understand the information provided, get a bit of experience at points and setting up a route to follow.
Second, I've registered for the Void rally:
https://rallythevoid.org/pb/wp_b5d32459/wp_b5d32459.html
This one is in October and I'm just doing the 10 hour rally. Again, experience in getting the packet and planning a route, but this time, within the timeframe that would occur in an actual rally.
After that, I have BBG and CC50 bucket list items to attend to, but will also start looking into a few rallies for next year to continue to build experience.
at that point, I'll do an assessment of how my enthusiasm is for further pursuit of this insanity!
Thanks everyone for your input. it's greatly appreciated.