Good Sam Trip Planner 25 Stop Limitation

How do you users of on-line systems deal with changes when there is no internet available?

We even carry wire, it is a Verizon smart phone tether with a 3watt repeater and during the first excursion this year, we were down to phone only or 1X for two days and about 400 miles.

As I can still work SA15 on the laptop, we weren't lost. I may write a very complete plan, but I have never had it last more than two days before it needs to be revised.

Matt

gregoryd73 wrote:
Thanks for the input. The GS Trip Planner has a couple really cool features that you might be missing. First, if you put the entire trip into the plan, it calculates the total mileage and expected cost of gas/fuel based on that mileage and the average gas/fuel price found along your route. This is a great tool for budgeting the trip. Secondly, you can print a complete list of all the "planned" stops with name, address and phone number which makes it easy to call ahead and reserve, should you want to. And, of course, you can always change your itinerary and stop at a Walmart or other overnight spot instead.

RV Parky will also report the total mileage for the trip (at the bottom of the trip listing) and you can calculate the cost if you like but I have found that info almost useless as there is no "average" cost per gallon when it varies almost a dollar/gallon across the country. I guess I am a little OCD as I construct my own itinerary in Word which includes a line for each stop with the dates of stay, that trips mileage, the name of the city and campground, whether it is reserved, the cost/day, and the DirectTV satellite settings in case I need to use the tripod. That is a one page document easily kept with us all the time. The name of the campground is also input as a link to the campgrounds website in case I need more info. I have included a picture of that itinerary for a portion of last year's trip. You can also look at our 2016 RV Parky Trip if you wish.

DownTheAvenue wrote:
Why can't you just plan your entire trip in segments to accommodate the 25 stop limitation?

Yep that is exactly what I did on my trip to the west coast

Why can't you just plan your entire trip in segments to accommodate the 25 stop limitation?

Thanks for the input. The GS Trip Planner has a couple really cool features that you might be missing. First, if you put the entire trip into the plan, it calculates the total mileage and expected cost of gas/fuel based on that mileage and the average gas/fuel price found along your route. This is a great tool for budgeting the trip. Secondly, you can print a complete list of all the "planned" stops with name, address and phone number which makes it easy to call ahead and reserve, should you want to. And, of course, you can always change your itinerary and stop at a Walmart or other overnight spot instead.

Perhaps I'm the oddball, but I never load more than the next day's travel into my RM 7720. That way I can verify it's taking me the way I want it to and add waypoints to make it do so. I can see no advantage to putting a whole cross country trip in it at once.

I use RVParky's trip planner to plan each summer's trip and refer to it when necessary but it has nothing to do with what I put into the GPS other than finding the name of the next campground so I can let the GPS find and route to it for the next day.