{"id":20,"date":"2008-06-06T22:41:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T04:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tom-nan.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2023-12-31T00:35:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T06:35:59","slug":"trip-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/06\/trip-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been planning for the LONG trip.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s only two weeks before we leave.\u00a0 Our younger son graduated High School tonight. We can&#8217;t believe where the time has gone.<br \/>\nWe have a copy of Delorme Street Atlas 2008.\u00a0 Bought it so we wouldn&#8217;t have to rely on an Internet connection and I can generate maps.\u00a0 Maps are always good to have because you never know if electronic equipment, like GPS units, will fail.\u00a0 I have generated trip packets containing the following for each day of driving:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An overview map<\/li>\n<li>A set of directions<\/li>\n<li>A set of strip maps (200 miles in each strip)<\/li>\n<li>Turn-by-turn maps of each intersection where we make a turn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also called ahead and made reservations for the entire trip.\u00a0 It will take 8 days to get there and 9 days to get back. The trip will take us from Florida, through Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota.\u00a0 In Canada we will drive through Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the Yukon Territory.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll cross into Alaska 8 days after leaving.<br \/>\nWill post a route map on the next post, I need to build a route map to upload to Geocaching.com to make a find caches along route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been planning for the LONG trip.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s only two weeks before we leave.\u00a0 Our younger son graduated High School tonight. We can&#8217;t believe where the time has gone. We have a copy of Delorme Street Atlas 2008.\u00a0 Bought it so we wouldn&#8217;t have to rely on an Internet connection and I can &#8230; <a title=\"Trip Planning\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/06\/trip-planning\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trip Planning\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-trips"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4828,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/4828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}