trip planning tools/applications
trip planning tools/applications
planning a two week trip (leaving June 11th) from Alberta to Las Vegas via the PCH and I am wondering if there are any suggestions for good online trip planning tools/applications?
Thanks!
Thanks!
Tourer
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 449
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From: Auburn, Georgia
I use Street Atlas. Set up the start and finish and select the shortest route. I plan my trip using that tool and then use Mapsource to make the route and load it into my GPS. You can also create waypoints with Mapsource and access it in the GPS. I use a Garmin but I think Tom/Tom does it as well.
Road Master
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 916
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From: NoVA
What you are doing is planning a road trip. Nothing wrong with that except that it will always be a road trip and not an adventure.
Turn off the computer, unbolt the GPS and get a good atlas. If you know when you leave and when you have to get back, that's OK. That's all the planning you need.
From the start decide where you go depending on weather or whim. If camping plan the next day around the campfire, if motelling plan it around the beers. Be open to roads or places you hear about from other motorcyclists. See a cool place, stop and camp there. See a interesting museum, take a tour even if it means not ending up where you had "planned" the day before.
A road trip you will remember bits of when looking at photos. An adventure you will remember in your heart until your dieing day.
Turn off the computer, unbolt the GPS and get a good atlas. If you know when you leave and when you have to get back, that's OK. That's all the planning you need.
From the start decide where you go depending on weather or whim. If camping plan the next day around the campfire, if motelling plan it around the beers. Be open to roads or places you hear about from other motorcyclists. See a cool place, stop and camp there. See a interesting museum, take a tour even if it means not ending up where you had "planned" the day before.
A road trip you will remember bits of when looking at photos. An adventure you will remember in your heart until your dieing day.
Tourer
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 390
Likes: 0
From: coral springs
What you are doing is planning a road trip. Nothing wrong with that except that it will always be a road trip and not an adventure.
Turn off the computer, unbolt the GPS and get a good atlas. If you know when you leave and when you have to get back, that's OK. That's all the planning you need.
From the start decide where you go depending on weather or whim. If camping plan the next day around the campfire, if motelling plan it around the beers. Be open to roads or places you hear about from other motorcyclists. See a cool place, stop and camp there. See a interesting museum, take a tour even if it means not ending up where you had "planned" the day before.
A road trip you will remember bits of when looking at photos. An adventure you will remember in your heart until your dieing day.
Turn off the computer, unbolt the GPS and get a good atlas. If you know when you leave and when you have to get back, that's OK. That's all the planning you need.
From the start decide where you go depending on weather or whim. If camping plan the next day around the campfire, if motelling plan it around the beers. Be open to roads or places you hear about from other motorcyclists. See a cool place, stop and camp there. See a interesting museum, take a tour even if it means not ending up where you had "planned" the day before.
A road trip you will remember bits of when looking at photos. An adventure you will remember in your heart until your dieing day.
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