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Veebyes
Explorer II
Mar 22, 2020

Multi month trip planning

Well, I fought the good fight to the bitter end but it looks like my use of Streets & Trips 2013 has finally been taken from me. I have not found a stand alone, no internet required, app to replace it. My 2009 Samsung laptop which has endured 3 bumpy trips on a table infront of the passenger seat to Alaska plus tens of thousands of miles all over the lower 48 & Canada, has finally died on me taking with it MS S&Ts to its grave.

So now I need to find something else that I can plan 100 day plus trips with.

I have tried the MAPS provided on Windows 10. Is it me or is it that cranky & frustrating to use?

I have a 3 year old Garmin 770RV which is fine for A to B trips but that is not how we travel. We avoid interstates like they have COVID 19. We do meandering day routes, often with changes on the fly when we don't like what the Garmin has come up with. The DW is a darned good navigator & given something with the details available of S&Ts she can navigate out of any wrong turn.

So, what else is there that I can use to plot away creating the next multi thousand mile trip, along with ideas on where to stay?
  • Road maps.

    Get something like a Rand McNally road atlas for an overview. Then get a road map for each state.

    Use a regular GPS (I do think Garmin is the best) to help you navigate. It's good to have the heads up for which lane to be in, etc.
  • The need to plan 100 day RV trips completely in advance escapes me.
  • You may want to try rvtripwizard.com. Though it is a subscription it is the most complete product I have seen. There is also an app, RV Life for your phone that copies the trips from RVTW to your phone.
  • How did we go anywhere when we only had paper maps :@