Trip planners?

[Ozz]

I just used AAA's planner, not bad. Which do 'y'all prefer?

[pineranch]

Microsoft Streets and Trips
Mike

[Ozz]

I had that, but don't now... I think.
Mike I was amazed at the detail of your planning, I am just too opposite of the planning deal. Probably need to work on that.
I guess I wanted free ones.

[H. John Kohl]

Delorme Maping
Now Street and Trips
Bing on line to look at camp sites
Passport America trip planning on line
Like Delorme or Street and trips because the low bridge application will work on them. Plan my trip then plug it into GPS with desired detours.

[Art-n-Marge]

I used to belong to AAA and used their clerks to create TripTiks. Then I started using Delorme MapnGo and some other thing years ago to start planning my own stuff. A few years after that then I starting using Streets and Trips which was then purchased by Microsoft for several years. Now I use Trailer Life Directory Campground Navigator. I use my Garmin plugged into the laptop running TLDCN, or the vehicle's GPS when traveling.

I am now a member of AAA once again because their membership fee is paid by their discounts for trips we've recently taken, but hadn't planned to use the TripTik trip planning.

What is the specific planner you are using from AAA? Please point me to it so I can check it out.

[Ozz]

I checked my old laptop, my streets and trips is a 2005 issue... Old as dirt..
The AAA is just the free, non-member AAA site trip planner. actually quite good.

[7.3Ford]

My trip planner is the DW. I get in the truck and say with way. Lately we have been using Google Maps on smart phone.

We have used AAA Street Atlas, but now just the smart phone.

Jim, if you ever fly and airplane, I have a great trip planer, moving maps, IFR Approach Plates, real time weather radar, all on you tablet computer.

[Ozz]

I worked with a Fitter friend of mine, he had a Cessna and we flew all the time, I almost went for a pilot's license, but opted for boating instead. At one time I had a 20' speedboat, a 28' wooden classic Owens cruiser, a 32' Carver fly bridge, and 2 wave-runners. Should have got the pilot's license....

[adelmoll]

Rand McNally Large Print.

Helen

[sola123]

Microsoft streets and trips, Good Sams Trailer Life DVD camgrd program, Delorme Topo USA...... and sometimes "dead reckoning"....

[7.3Ford]

quote:Originally posted by Ozz

I worked with a Fitter friend of mine, he had a Cessna and we flew all the time, I almost went for a pilot's license, but opted for boating instead. At one time I had a 20' speedboat, a 28' wooden classic Owens cruiser, a 32' Carver fly bridge, and 2 wave-runners. Should have got the pilot's license....

We had a popup and a 1969 Piper Cherokee 140. We were camping more than flying, and annual cost keep increasing (wife called it the money pit). It was getting hard to keep IFR current, because we were camping all the time. So we sold the plane and we got the Montana.

[Ozz]

Ahhh she's a beauty, bet it hurt to sell her. Do you get to go up any more with others?
Life is full of tough choices isn't it?

[sreigle]

I love small planes but never had one.

Jim, are you talking about route planning or looking for places to visit?

For route planning I often do my preliminary planning with streets and trips because it's so easy to use and easy to change my route to what I want rather than the roads it thinks I should take. I'll then export it to a gpx file and import that to Garmin's MapSource. Or maybe I'll just take a few notes from S&T and start it new in MapSource. From MapSource I can upload it to my Garmin. I prefer to upload from the Garmin because its map matches MapSource's map. That way everything is where it's supposed to be in the Garmin.

Sometimes there's no better place to start than a plain old fashioned paper map or atlas to pick out the primary highways I want to travel. Then I go onto the computer and set it up.

[Ozz]

Good tips, there are many choices, few wrong ones.