With the Internet how do you plan you trip?
In the old days, you could break out you Rand McNally or you AAA maps and plan a trip. Obviously, this is still an option. Years ago I had a Microsoft application, Trips and Streets, that was a pr...
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We start out with Google Maps and enter our start and end destination. I usually write down the route.
Depending on how far the trip is, we plan on actual drive time to be 6 hours, so approximately 300 miles actual driving a day. Taking that distance, we estimate where we'll be at on each day.
This allows for side trips, road stop strips, points of interest, and those unexpected ... "YARD SALE! Turn around!" stops too.
Looking at the over-all route, and then breaking it down into the distance each day, we then search the internet for campgrounds to spend the night.
We also search our stop points for other points of interest, and also decide if we'd really like to spend some extra time in that area by doing Google Searchs of attractions in the area.
So, once we identify the attraction we might be interested in, then the actual driving distance, then the campground, we make reservations at all the campgrounds. We verify their GSP and physical address.
Then we simply use our Tom Tom and put all these different address in our Tom Tom. When leaving home, we hit the first campground address, and let Tom Tom guide us.Second day, we enter the second campground address and let Tom Tom guide us, and so on.
If there are any side trips, diversions, or anything, we don't care. If we get off course, we just re-enter the campground and keep heading there.
Yes, it takes paper, pencil, Google Maps, a paper map, and a Tom Tom. But once you do it all, it makes the journey a bit more enjoyable not having to figure out how to navigate on the fly.
(FYI, we don't plan diesel stops... we fillup at half a tank, no matter where we are!)
Depending on how far the trip is, we plan on actual drive time to be 6 hours, so approximately 300 miles actual driving a day. Taking that distance, we estimate where we'll be at on each day.
This allows for side trips, road stop strips, points of interest, and those unexpected ... "YARD SALE! Turn around!" stops too.
Looking at the over-all route, and then breaking it down into the distance each day, we then search the internet for campgrounds to spend the night.
We also search our stop points for other points of interest, and also decide if we'd really like to spend some extra time in that area by doing Google Searchs of attractions in the area.
So, once we identify the attraction we might be interested in, then the actual driving distance, then the campground, we make reservations at all the campgrounds. We verify their GSP and physical address.
Then we simply use our Tom Tom and put all these different address in our Tom Tom. When leaving home, we hit the first campground address, and let Tom Tom guide us.Second day, we enter the second campground address and let Tom Tom guide us, and so on.
If there are any side trips, diversions, or anything, we don't care. If we get off course, we just re-enter the campground and keep heading there.
Yes, it takes paper, pencil, Google Maps, a paper map, and a Tom Tom. But once you do it all, it makes the journey a bit more enjoyable not having to figure out how to navigate on the fly.
(FYI, we don't plan diesel stops... we fillup at half a tank, no matter where we are!)
