Trip planner, Good Sam or AAA, or?
I'm often obsessive about planning. This may be a no brainer but humor me please. We will likely be hitting the road soon for maybe 6 to 8 weeks at a clip. I like visual aids, trip planners, atlas, ec...
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I rather recently bought a copy of the latest large scale Rand-McNally road atlas from Wal-Mart (which has by far the best price on it). This is a spiral-bound atlas, and being large scale means that states are often split up on multiple pages, which makes for a bit more cumbersome planning but shows more detail and shows it more legibly than other road atlases. One noteworthy drawback is that it doesn't have Mexico or Canada maps. On the whole, I think it's the best deal on a road atlas these days, at least the best I've come across. The spiral binding is a definite advantage.
I also like the AAA regional US maps (Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest) for planning and longer-distance travel.
For online tools, I've generally defaulted to Google Maps, though their no longer available old interface was much superior to the current one. The propensity of the current interface, when adjusting routes manually, to snap to tiny local roads that are invisible at the current magnification rather than the visible major highway is highly infuriating.
I also like the AAA regional US maps (Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest) for planning and longer-distance travel.
For online tools, I've generally defaulted to Google Maps, though their no longer available old interface was much superior to the current one. The propensity of the current interface, when adjusting routes manually, to snap to tiny local roads that are invisible at the current magnification rather than the visible major highway is highly infuriating.
