I have just seen a great list of tools that you can use on your computer to plan and have your next road trip.
The site Mashable is all about the cutting edge of high tech but today there is this article that list 20 tools that Mashable thinks are the great online tools for your family vacation.
Most of the article is including sites to book hotels, cars and other stuff as well as journalling your vacation experiences online.
The first tech stuff I used on a vacation was back in 1999 when I brought a laptop along on a long 16 day road trip. I used the program Map Point that is really the old version of Microsoft Streets and Trips and was able to map our vacation as well as get myself out of trouble whenever we got lost.
The newer versions of streets and trips actually come with a GPS unit that you can plug into your laptop so that you can find out where you are when you get lost…out of town this is really easy to do espcially in big cities.
Commenting usually isnt my thing, but ive spent an hour on the site, so thanks for the info