Trip planning guide/programs...
Newbie trying to quasy plan our 2+ month first trip with the RV... Here's what I do know, just haven't figured out how to plug it into a plan.... Leaving and returning to Florida.. Would like to me...
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We're excessive planners. There's just no way around it.
Generally my trip planning goes as such:
Generally my trip planning goes as such:
- Start an editable Google Map
- On the Google map, I add pins to the map and color code them by:
- The major locations that we want to hit
- Surrounding attractions that we want to see (including roadside attractions that we want to stop and see)
- Campgrounds in the areas that we're going/stopping over at (for me- I color code these between Thousand Trails parks vs. Encore parks vs. all other parks)
- The major locations that we want to hit
- Start an Excel sheet that works as a calendar
- 7 columns wide (for Sun-Sat)
- I give myself 6-7 rows between each week where I include, where we'll be that evening, where we're departing from (if in transit), number of miles between each location (if in transit), cost of the night's stay (for totaling up costs), address (for mapping + GPS) and then a cell for random other comments
- I have a set of rows for each week that we'll be gone
- 7 columns wide (for Sun-Sat)
- I think start route planning to get a feel for each leg of the trip. I have learned, we average about 45-50mph while traveling regardless of what roadway speeds are by the time we factor in our stops. My preferred day of travel is 200 miles but schedule often dictates up to about 425 as our maximum.
- Where possible, if I see a longer leg of travel between locations, I'll go back to the map and try to find a stopping point- be it simply a stop off of the highway or near an attraction that we'd like to see.
