Sort of agree with Ray but you're wrong about the open carrier being the safe bet in "good weather." Denver winters are the problem, and the reason to book enclosed isn't the car's value, it's the road junk. Mag chloride and road salt spray gets kicked up by the truck in front and coats the whole car, and that stuff sits on the paint and undercarriage for the whole trip. An older daily driver with 140k still rusts, and a wash at the end doesn't undo a week of salt sitting on it. Ray was right that you don't need to pay for a garage, but the open vs enclosed call should be about the season and the route, not the car's age or mileage.

I read somewhere that writing stuff down by hand makes your brain hold onto it better than typing, and your whiteboard thing kind of proves that. Something about the act of writing it out and seeing it in your own handwriting makes it stick more than a phone buzz you swipe away. Maybe it's the whole reason boring old paper lists still work for people.