Pops wrote:
i lay out my entire trip on my laptop with "microsoft streets & trips-2011", before i begin the trip. then each day i load the rand mcnally gps for the day sometimes a 2 or 3 day route. i also make notes on paper from "street/trip" of the hwys i'll be traveling that day or 2. with that and following road signs and common sense/feel, i've managed pretty good
I have managed real well for the last 50 years without any of that stuff. But I do have a GPS for use in towns to find places not for open roads or coast to coast travel. Just the way I am.