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Planning a vacation for a
weekend, two weeks or even a four-month adventure like ours can be a long and
tedious experience. Despite this, advanced planning is a MUST if you want yours
to be rewarding and almost problem free. Minor setbacks will certainly occur when you least expect
them while traveling, but you can avoid many major problems with advanced research. There are, of course, circumstances
beyond your control that planning cannot solve (there were two deaths in
our family during our adventure), but if you remain flexible they can be
addressed as well. The Internet was a very useful
resource for us while planning our adventure. Using the search engine at Excite,
we were able to browse web sites for planning our route, identifying places
to visit, avoiding pitfalls and purchasing discount camping memberships. We also used the Internet while
traveling for updating our personal web site, sending/receiving email
messages and even paying our monthly bills. Many of the links we used while researching are listed to
the right of this page. To use them, you must be connected to the
Internet first. Our original goals were to
travel throughout the United States and Canada, take our time, ride our
Harley Davidson, visit several friends/relatives and avoid snow in the Rocky
Mountains. Due to family
emergencies, we were unable to travel into Canada, but we did accomplish each
of our other goals and more. We
attribute this to the flexibility we built into our plans. We
used MapQuest for planning our route
and calculating mileage, several other links for locating National Parks,
State Parks, private campgrounds and 50states.com
for identifying places to visit along the way. Remember, to use
these yourself, you must be connected to the Internet first. |
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