Mapping Your Adventures with an RV Trip Planner

Everybody has their favorite trip planning or trip routing software. I get mine from my wife. I get directions all the time. Some people like to use the GPS. There are a couple of programs I wanted to show you that are available on the internet. And the first one is we're gonna go to Google and I use this quite a bit. Just go to google.com and we're gonna go into basically Google Maps is where we're going to. Now a lot, some people used to use MapQuest in the old days. But let's say we want to go to Boulder, Colorado. So I just type in Boulder, let's see here. Boulder, Colorado. And it comes up right here on our Google Maps. I'm gonna put my cheaters on here. So it'll tell me a variety of different things. I can go in and search, you know, for campgrounds. We see various areas here. What I also like about this if I want to get directions and we're in Clear Lake, Iowa, let's have it come up here, Clear Lake. I click on that and get directions. And it's gonna tell me the best routes where I can take and go down to 80 and across or even down further into the Boulder area. I can get closer by going down into my areas here. And it shows me a variety of different spots. Now, if I really want to get into the RV activity, so we'll just go down here and bring up RV Trip Wizard. And this is rvtripwizard.com. And you can see here, this is we're on the demo page of this one right now. And it shows all the campgrounds, campsites, Pilots, Flying Js, even Big Creek Smoky Mountain. So it's got parks, state parks and everything. So we're just gonna do the tour here. We'll go through the next one, and it shows it's designed to work on laptops, tablets, smartphones, all that type of stuff. And several main areas. The top menu contains the buttons to create an open trip. We have up at the top here, new trips, you can have existing trips and everything in there. This area down here then shows you the stops on your way, associated costs, distance, travel. And then it goes into a little tighter view here and you can click on a stop and zoom in and it'll allow you to edit each one of these. Now, again, we're in the demo so it's not allowing us to do that, but it's just showing that where you could put a pencil or trash that icon. You can edit your trip, start date, camping totals. So it kind of gives you a log of everything that you've done. And then up in here and go to the next step. Here we click on the tools wrench, and it'll allow you to print the trip or export it, email it to some other place or send it to your GPS. So you get your trip all planned out the way you want it, the stops you want to go to, all this and then you can put it to a GPS and it will literally let you track as you go along. And the map area here is where you're viewing your stops. You can see the gas stations, Pilots, Flying Js, Good Sam's, points of interest. And up here, then account settings, view your profile, change your password, so forth. And click on the open and close area of the tab. So there, you can see that if you want to get very detailed in routing your trip, this RVtripwizard.com is one of the best programs out there. And we're getting a lot of feedback that people, RV owners, really like this program.