Summer 2012

This map shows our summer travel route and the stops along the way.  As the numbers imply, we'll be doing the loop clockwise.  Most of the stops indicate overnights but some are just there to force the software (Streets & Trips) to take the route we prefer instead of the one it likes.

This will be our 3rd summer of travel in our EDGE travel trailer.  Last summer, doing the Canadian Maritimes, we logged 11263 miles in 80 days.  The summer of 2010 we went to Alaska: 14819 miles; 116 days.  This year we'll pull the trailer about 3500 miles and log an additional 1000 miles of side trips in the pickup over a period of 65-70 days.  So, we'll be spending a lot less time driving and setting up/breaking camp, a lot more time enjoying the scenery, hiking, and so on.   

The map itself was generated by the S&T software mentioned above.  I printed a copy of the map, then scanned it into the computer as a jpeg file.  There's probably a slick way of  grabbing  the map directly from the S&T itinerary and plopping it into the blog but I'll be damned if I can figure out how it's done.  Spent nearly 2 hours dicking around with copy/ paste, save to file, etc.  It's not the first time I've tried, either.  It is the last, though.  Piss on it.