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How did people plan road trips, vacations or get around before Microsoft’s MapPoint?
This piece of software is amazing!
You can plug in where you want to go and all the stops you want to make along the way and at the click of a button it will map your route for you, provide you with the fuel cost, driving distance and time and even plot out all the gas stations, restaurants, ATMS, bars, and landmarks along the way for you. Heck, you can even customize what TYPE of restaurants it should display. (Let’s eliminate all those nasty sushi places cluttering up my map!)
It is fully customizable in terms of dumping in the cost of fuel per litre (or gallon), providing highway routes or local roads to drive depending on your preferences and it even lets you add when you want to schedule a stop over.
So far, to get from Calgary, Alberta to Victoria, British Columbia and back to Calgary we will be driving for a total of about 24 hours and clock in over 2000km (or about 1280 miles). It’s a good thing we decided to fly out west and not drive. The total trip from Ontario to BC and back is over 8700km (5,405 miles) and over 85 hours of driving! YIKES! That is a heck of a lot of time to expect me to sit still.
Maybe I’ll run into good old Stephen Harper while we’re out west and have a little chat about his inability to sway Ontario to vote Conservative!
Speaking of Conservative, what a smart move Belinda made crossing over to the Liberal party. It’s too bad she didn’t beat Stephen Harper in the leadership election. It’s also too bad that no one checked out the .com version of her web address before buying the domain name (www.Belinda.ca). It appears if you enter www.Belinda.com you hit a porn site! Nice one Belinda!Labels: Vacation |
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We drove, but I'm not sure if I would be up to it again. You know, it takes three days (of sane driving and some siteseeing and regular stops) just to get out of Ontario. This is a massive province, especially from east to west. We really enjoyed the trip though. Our motive was to take our time and see the country. Of course, teacher vacations are longer than most, so it became do-able.
Sigh, I see that I'll have to purchase some more software. Do you know if it ties in with a GPS at all?
Yes -- good for you Belinda. Listening the Peter McKay last night, it seemed that he might be more a more attractive option than than Mr Self-Righteous.
Ummm, 8 or 5 hours is way too long for me! Yippee for flying!
See I would love to drive that. I love being able to look at everything along the way and stop whenever and where ever. But mind you that I don't think I could do those trips now with kids.
WTG, Belinda.
AC: It most certainly ties in with GPS.
I had to laugh that you added in the "sane" driving comment about getting out of Ontario. I think we had planned two nights in Ontario when we were thinking of driving, with our third night in Regina, Sask. The cost of hotels in Wawa and Kenora (where we planned to stop overnight) was ridiculously high considering there isn't much going on there. I guess they know they are about the only town available with a place to sleep for hundreds and hundreds of miles.
Nah, you're better to fly. Driving it is great if you can take the time to enjoy it but not worth it otherwise.
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