Fun fact: the route split doesn’t actually happen until day 4!
I admit, the pacing is a little quick at the beginning, but the breadth of options across the first 3 days is part of what makes that happen. I’ll blame my lack of writing experience at the time, haha! If you experiment around making different choices you’ll see that there’s actually a lot of variation. And you don’t necessarily have to end up with the person you pick day 1.
I will add, there’s a reason that I wrote it the way I did initially, and that was to set up for a route idea I’ve been waffling back and forth on. Regardless, thanks for the constructive criticism. I always appreciate hearing thoughts on the project!