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Trip Planning Software Reviews: Microsoft, Trailer Life, and National Geographic Planners

Apr 3, 2000

Planning the particulars of a camping trip—your route, driving distances and camp-overs—is the fun part of trip preparation. There are a number of excellent software programs on the market to help with this process.

Expedia Streets and Trips 2000

Expedia Streets and Trips 2000 is very easy to use. With 20 million miles of North American roads, addresses and places are easy to locate. The program provides options to customize and change your route, stop-overs and preferred roads (freeway or scenic roads). Streets and Trips will figure out gasoline costs, time of arrival at stops, and more.

Expedia Streets and Trips 2000 contains 9,500 Woodall campground listings, 12,000 articles, and 14,000 restaurant listings. The program provides a detailed itinerary, a trip summary, and excellent maps.

2000 Trailer Life RV Campground Finder

The 2000 Trailer Life RV Campground Finder is a new CD version of Trailer Life's bound directory, a highly respected RV publication (the official directory of the Good Sam Club). You can print listings and maps to take along on your trip.

National Geographic Trip Planner

The National Geographic Trip Planner Deluxe Special Edition offers a trip wizard, 100,000 points of interest, hikes, scenic drives, and restaurant listings. Included are detailed maps, itineraries, campgrounds, park maps, and trip customizing tools. With its online travel resource center, this trip planner will help with any camping trip.

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7. Jun 19, 2000 10:28 PM
Thanks for the tips on GPS. In fact, MS Streets and Trips allows you to use GPS if you have it. I understand that cell phones will soon have the ability to provide your location. That will really be a ...

-- posted by Tom_Stephens

6. Jun 19, 2000 7:07 PM
If you really want to make navigation a bit easier, buy a program that not only supports trip planning/routing (to tell you which way to go), but look for one that incorporates using a GPS device so t ...

-- posted by Roger_S

5. Apr 13, 2000 9:28 PM
Yep, I guess they all have a few bugs in them, but they do have a lot of time and add a lot of info. to a trip. We just received our new version of Expedia Streets and Trips, 2001 version. I was just ...

-- posted by Tom_Stephens

4. Apr 13, 2000 7:56 AM
I use AAA Map-n-Go and really like it. I used it to completely plan our 7 week trip to Alaska last summer. Using computer software is much easier (and faster) than going through the AAA camp & ...

-- posted by twarfiel

3. Apr 8, 2000 5:02 PM
and when it had one of the BC Provincial parks in a totally wrong location we started to wonder about the whole thing.

-- posted by annej

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