IMPORTANT: WEST COAST RALLY SCORING HEADS-UP (Page 2 of 2)

deLorme is the shit. got WA waiting for the orgone one to show.it late!

i keep tapping my finger on the cover and it won't open. and i want to do an update to it before i leave, but it's not responding. oh well, i'll have to throw it in a stream somewhere and buy a new one.

My Washington atlas is a different brand, I found it in the middle of the road during my Washington Backcountry Discovery Route motorcycle trip a couple years ago.

old maps are often better maps. like everything else, in the last 10 yrs or so large publishing megacorps bought up all the competitors, merged them, dropped a lot of information, and eliminated competition. old maps have data that is NOT on new maps. (new maps sometimes have corrections and new roads etc, but roads don't change much and urban roads are no fun to drive on and google maps is better for urban).

old nuke test sites, mines, crazy roads, dead businesses, old towns, maps are great. ive been scouting maps from the 40's (local and abebooks.com) and wow it's like another world.

i started doing this in the 70's when i found an old map that had on it a single word: CRATER. wtf! i lived in massivetwoshits at the time, it seemed so exotic. now i'm positively BORED by craters, there's so many out here (south west).

benchmarks are good, i have some of those.

one camping/road trip i actually forgot my sleeping bag! then almost ran over one in the road, musta fell of someone's truck.

the road will provide!

I've recently become introduced to the maps.me app. Download and cache all the maps you've got space for, and it'll GPS you into it (assuming your phone has the tech... Lol). It's even got hiking trails, and stuff like that on it.
The downside is the maps themselves do take up a lot of storage space, but there's a ton of data, all of it available offline. It also looks like the maps are open-source, meaning anyone can add things (new roads, trails, etc) to them. And did I mention it's all offline? I used it the other week to help pick the best route through a loose scree field on a very steep mountain peak, because the trail data was so accurate. Seems like a ton more precision than the Google maps gps tracker as well. Plus since it's offline it feels a ton less like big brother's watching your every footstep.

I have Garmin GPS as well, but those are packed with so many "points of interest" that it is difficult/slow to search for food/gas/etc. But it's good for offline navigation. Also makes for good speedometer verification. The Waze app is pretty good too.

Whatever my navigator wants, he can use.

i dropped in to the local big AAA office yesterday. it's a whole building filled with people doing shit about/for/with cars. could be a lot worse. i got a pair of new maps (CA, OR+WA) even though i didn't need them. gonna leave the atlases at home, they're bulky.

Where is the schedule???? I'm dying here!

Waiting on dates from some of the franchisees.

First two rallies are basically the same dates. Third one is the surprise. Start saving your vacation time now.

I'll have you know that my company is giving me an extra two weeks vacation just to do the rally. Bring it on!

Route 66 Chicago to Santa Monica!  Hell Yeah!