Plotting stops in the Road Trip Planner
Just starting to organize a trip from PA to Flagstaff AZ and on to Marina Del Rey CA. I'd like to use the planner and wish to select GoodSam campgrounds along the way. Is there a simple way to plot si...
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Paper map and a highlighter. :R
I discovered with my Tom Tom, about the only way to plot alternative routes that involve stops, is to simply load the destinations we want to stop at. Say in a 3 day travel time, we plan to stay at 2 different campgrounds over night, our final destination the 3rd night, and a specific site to visit each day. That's a total of 6 destinations.
Load each destination and save them. Then when leaving home, simply punch in the first destination, or first attraction on days one and follow Tom Tom. Once at the first point of interest, bring up the second destination, which is the campground for the first night. From home to point A is the first leg of the journey. At point A now bring up point B (the campground first night) and follow the directions. And just keep repeating. Basically, you reach the first destination and then punch in the next destination.
I've tried using the Good Sam trip planner with ZERO success. It seems to work OK from your start point to one destination point. But adding multiple destination points along a planned route, .... well ... I never figured it out. So maybe that is the secret to making it work. Home to point A and save that part of the trip. Point A to point B and save that part of the trip as new route, and so on. I don't know if Good Sam Trip planner will let you do that or not, I gave up using it some time ago. Especially now that I figured out my Tom Tom, I'm OK with this method.
I discovered with my Tom Tom, about the only way to plot alternative routes that involve stops, is to simply load the destinations we want to stop at. Say in a 3 day travel time, we plan to stay at 2 different campgrounds over night, our final destination the 3rd night, and a specific site to visit each day. That's a total of 6 destinations.
Load each destination and save them. Then when leaving home, simply punch in the first destination, or first attraction on days one and follow Tom Tom. Once at the first point of interest, bring up the second destination, which is the campground for the first night. From home to point A is the first leg of the journey. At point A now bring up point B (the campground first night) and follow the directions. And just keep repeating. Basically, you reach the first destination and then punch in the next destination.
I've tried using the Good Sam trip planner with ZERO success. It seems to work OK from your start point to one destination point. But adding multiple destination points along a planned route, .... well ... I never figured it out. So maybe that is the secret to making it work. Home to point A and save that part of the trip. Point A to point B and save that part of the trip as new route, and so on. I don't know if Good Sam Trip planner will let you do that or not, I gave up using it some time ago. Especially now that I figured out my Tom Tom, I'm OK with this method.
