Michigan to Arizona route advice
Hi Everyone! Looking for some advice from some seasoned travelers regarding routes. My wife and I are on our first trip out west from Michigan in a 30ft Holiday Rambler with car in tow. We have...
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Dusty,
We live by:
Interstate:
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
Charles Kuralt
While our classic (antique) coach never has trouble keeping up with highways speeds, we chose to avoid them.
While the only thing we use that is common to you collection is the Road Atlas and a little Google Maps, we use what we have to target other than interstate highways. Per the above, we usually trying to enjoy the excursion. A few years back we went from SE MI to the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta on the route of Rt-66. RT66 has been decommissioned years ago but much is marked.
If you have AAA (or a friend that does) you can order up a USA map and individual maps of all the areas you might transit. You can also order up guide books. They do a lot of that on line now.
There is the bug. Unless you can create your own hotspot with a smart phone (most can do this), any on-line thing is useless most of the time. Even with your own smartphone tether, it can still be useless a great deal of the time. That means that both RV Trip Planer and Google Maps can be counted on to not work when you need them.
There is also the problem that most all GPS can't decide on a decent route. To them, there is the interstate or cow path and no logical mix. Then there is the problem that the tiny screen is a poor planning platform for much travel.
Unfortunately, the good stand-alone planning programs have died off.
So, we use every thing we can and all at once. After dinner is time for the next day's route to be planed and loaded into the driver's GPS. We do that one day at a time. If we have wire, we will take advantage of that fact, but we don't count on it.
When Starlink is fully operational, I may change my opinions.
Matt
We live by:
Interstate:
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
Charles Kuralt
While our classic (antique) coach never has trouble keeping up with highways speeds, we chose to avoid them.
While the only thing we use that is common to you collection is the Road Atlas and a little Google Maps, we use what we have to target other than interstate highways. Per the above, we usually trying to enjoy the excursion. A few years back we went from SE MI to the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta on the route of Rt-66. RT66 has been decommissioned years ago but much is marked.
If you have AAA (or a friend that does) you can order up a USA map and individual maps of all the areas you might transit. You can also order up guide books. They do a lot of that on line now.
There is the bug. Unless you can create your own hotspot with a smart phone (most can do this), any on-line thing is useless most of the time. Even with your own smartphone tether, it can still be useless a great deal of the time. That means that both RV Trip Planer and Google Maps can be counted on to not work when you need them.
There is also the problem that most all GPS can't decide on a decent route. To them, there is the interstate or cow path and no logical mix. Then there is the problem that the tiny screen is a poor planning platform for much travel.
Unfortunately, the good stand-alone planning programs have died off.
So, we use every thing we can and all at once. After dinner is time for the next day's route to be planed and loaded into the driver's GPS. We do that one day at a time. If we have wire, we will take advantage of that fact, but we don't count on it.
When Starlink is fully operational, I may change my opinions.
Matt
