stackyFACTSYou might think your meticulously color-coded spreadsheet is cutting-edge, but 'itinerary' comes straight from the Latin 'iter', meaning a path or road. The ancient Romans were essentially doing the same aggressive trip-planning, minus the digital shared documents.
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