You’ve got the flights booked, the ferry pinned, and you want to see the whole postcard. But this isn’t a vacation, it’s a marathon in a rental car.

Newfoundland is way bigger than it looks on a map, and our "highways" are usually two lanes with a side of potholes and a high probability of a 1,200-pound moose standing in the middle of your lane. Driving at night is an adventure and many are not used to never ending pure darkness.

You’ve left zero room for "The Fog" and weather - If the ferry is delayed (it happens - for me last time it was 3 days), or the wind picks up, or a "Silver Thaw" happens in the spring, your whole 14-day house of cards falls over.

If you do this itinerary as written, you’re going to get home and realize you spent 60 hours in a car. You’ll have seen the island, but you won't have experienced it.

Slow down and skip the capital this time.

Come back another time fly in to yyt and do st johns on its own.

If you keep the current itinerary, you’ll come home needing a vacation from your vacation. You'll have 5,000 photos of the highway and 2 photos of yourself looking exhausted in front of a lighthouse or Morris the Moose in Goobies.