hello welcome back to how to rv i am jason and today we're going to talk about rv trip planning
so here in just a minute we're going to go to the computer and we're going to pull up rv trip wizard
in the last video and i'll leave a link to that we talked about different things that you can use to
plan your trips and in that video i promised you that we would go into rv trip wizard and we would
actually plan out an actual trip so not to drag things on too much longer let's go ahead and head
into the computer we'll pull up rv trip wizard and we'll start planning our trip all right now that
we have our computer open we're going to go to rv trip wizard so i'll start typing in the bar up
at the top you can see the rvtripwizard.com i've already typed it in we're going to go ahead and go
to their site and because i'm already a member of rv trip wizard i'm gonna go to my planner
so right here i think i'm gonna name this family trip in alabama and then down here do you know the
day you're leaving i'll say yes and i'm just gonna leave it on this date right here and then i'm
going to go ahead and create now on the next step you can have three different options to find out
where you want to start from you can click on this to find or use your current location or on this
one you can search by an address or down on here show the map and just click a waypoint so the good
thing about using this as a start for a location where you can type in where you want to be
is because you may be creating a trip from a place where you're not currently staying at so in this
case i'm going to go ahead and type this here just like i am typing up a trip from somewhere that i'm
not normally at go ahead there and this is where i want to start from so i'm going to go ahead and
click start and it's going to start building my trip for me so from there i have some general
information here on the left that i need to start filling out so you see these tabs up the top we'll
walk across those here in just a second but on the general tab the trip name family trip in alabama
trip notes and here i want to put a note in that there are going to be two stops
one going to alabama and one coming back because we're not going to drive all the way through
so there's an area where we want to stop along the way and an area we want to stop on our way
back home so that being said we're going to stop at a harvest host along the way to alabama and
our harvest host on the way back if you want to know more about harvest host i'll have a tag right
here about a video that i made about harvest host as well as down in the description below
all right back to talking about rv trip wizard in rv trip wizard we have all we need right here so
the trip status is going to be active and here you have active tentative and archive so active is a
trip that we're going to currently do a tentative trip is something that we'll be doing later on
and then the archive trip is maybe a trip that we want to put on here that is something maybe
or maybe not that we will do but it's in here and stored free to charge or email yes or no in here i
do want to get an email just before we departure give me all the information that i need and then
the units imperial or metric but we're in the united states so we'll stay on an imperial here
the next part is what all gets interesting about how this is going to work for me
so in here you have our rv specifications and your truck and fuel and rv information all that
stuff so starting on the left your specifications you don't have to worry about going out measuring
your rv and trying to figure all that out because it's going to figure it out for you so what we're
going to do here is click on lookup rv information and we have a travel trailer so i'm going to click
on that and it's a 2019 and it is made by forest river and it's a cherokee gray wolf and it is a
26 dbh once i click on that it's going to give me all of my information for me so my height is 10
foot 6 inches my length is 29 foot 3 inches and my weight is approximately 7 570 pounds
am i carrying propane yes of course i am and then on the right hand side is rv truck fuel
information this is where it's going to get really interesting here so the fuel type diesel
how many gallons of fuel do i have 30 gallons how many reserve two fuel economy nine miles to
the gallon now when you put this information in on mirrors you don't want to put in how much you
get on fuel mileage if you're not towing you want to put in the fuel mileage that you get
while you're towing and for fuel warnings yes i want multiple fuel warnings and the
reason that i want that is because i want it to tell me every time i need to stop and get fuel
once all that is done i'm going to go to routing and driving information on the left hand side
on routing you have rv routing and standard routing in this case i want to keep it on rv
and then you see a bunch of yes or no questions do i want to avoid tolls and yes i do then you had
avoid highways ferries tunnels and unpaved roads i have no on all those so we'll leave that as it is
and on the right hand side we have drive time estimates use my average driving speed the
reason i do that is because i like to stay around 60 to 65 miles an hour but if i put
55 in here it's going to give me a little more accurate time on how long it's going to take me
to get from one place to the next you'll see all that here in just a minute on the driving radius
you can decide how you like tripwizard to display the radius overlay on your map in this case we'll
stay with the classic driving radius these colors right here will match what's on the bottom your
minimum distance your middle distance and your max distance that you want to travel
on driving distance i've decided on distances to be set at an average of hours per day meaning that
i really don't want to travel more than five hours a day if i can help it in this case you'll see in
a minute i can't but this is what i want to try to do so i click on that and it's going to tell
me in the map once all that's done we can start adding in expenses i'm not going to get into all
that right here on this video because it will just take up a lot more time but if you know
how much money you want to spend on camping and meals miscellaneous expenses average cost per
gallon all that stuff you can put that in here you can recalculate expenses for all stops yes or no
in this case since we're not putting all that information in there we'll leave that as a no
this is really good information that you want to have on here if you're on a budget
you're more of a full-time or you're going to be out on long trips or just a little pro tip here if
you're a youtuber and you're traveling from spot to spot to do youtube work you could put this
information in here and have this log for your taxes at the end of the year just keep that in
mind all right once all these informations are put in then we'll go ahead and save the trip settings
and it's going to start calculating everything out so you see right here in the middle of the map
this is our starting point if you look to the left you can see right here where we'll be starting
from and then on the right hand side it'll give you some general parks around that area and the
distances that they are from you in this case we know where we want to go so i'm going to go
up here and i'm going to show you that we want to go to sharon johnson park campground we've already
looked up all that information so i'm gonna go back to rv trip wizard and up here at the top
where it says search for a location or a park i'm gonna go ahead and type that information in there
and it should pop up and there it is right there the sharon johnston park and newmarket alabama
we're to click on that and you can see right here if we look at the part details just to make sure
that everything is where we want to be according to this tab that we clicked up here a minute ago
we come back here and look and there's all the information there's your phone number website
campground reviews satellite map you can check all that out as you create your own but you can also
go and look at the features you can look at some reviews tips and qa and what the current weather
is at that park as we stand so we go back and you see up here here is the address this is where i
want to make sure that we're adding the right place to the trip that we have already looked at
since we know that we got the campground that we want to go to we'll go over here and add the trip
but before i click on add to trip i want you to notice here miles in this leg 655.6 miles
so that means that if we're going to go straight from our starting point all the way to the
campground without stopping it's going to be 655.6 miles so just keep that in mind as you're planning
your trip that's not going to be the case in this one but just keep that in mind so we'll
go ahead and add that to our trip number nice to stay we'll be staying there for four nights
do we want to lock the day to the stay not right now but if i clicked on that you can put the date
you're going to arrive and the date you're going to leave i'm going to leave that empty right
now and this is going to be the last stop for now we're going to leave this as the last stop that'll
change in a little bit you'll see in just a little while but anyway we got all that done and we're
going to go ahead and add this to our trip and when we do that you're going to see here on the
map and on the left-hand side where it has added it in so here's the place we're going to start
here's the place that we're going to end which happens to be the campground now to keep things
in order we're going to go ahead and put the first place that we want to stop as we're going to the
campground in alabama to do that i need to get the address and i've already pulled that up earlier
on a harvest host the two locations that we want to go to is one right here this little farm this
little picture of a tractor or whatever and on the way back we're going to stop at this winery
right here the one with this little symbol of a wine glass so first we want to go ahead and click
on this right here and this will show us the farm that we want to stop at on our way to alabama and
it gives us the address right here so what we're going to do is go ahead and highlight this address
and then we're going to copy that address and we're going to go back to rv trip wizard
and we're going to go up here and paste it in and it gives me a place of interest i'm gonna go ahead
and click on that and it's gonna bring me down to the first stop that we're gonna do on our way to
alabama if i click on more details right here it's gonna give me some information that i need to key
in mcmillan farms how many nights in this case we're going to stay one night do we want to lock
the day to the stay i'm not going to enter that right now but that would be the date that we're
going to stop there and then we're going to add this stop after where so in this case we said
that we wanted to stop on our way to alabama so we know that sharon johnson park is in alabama
we want to stop there right after our very first stop which is this one right here
and we're going to save that custom stop so you'll see up here on the left it's going to start to do
the remapping of everything so that we can get from one place to the next so we're going to go
ahead and zoom out a little bit so i can show you on the map we're going to come down 81 we'll stop
at this harvest host pick back up and head on down to the park in alabama once we're in alabama we do
our four night stay we want to circle back and come back up to where we stayed in homestead and
to do that we need to add in the second harvest host spot so if i go back to the harvest host site
and i click on this winery right here it's going to give me the other address so again do the same
thing copy that address we'll go back up to rv trip wizard again the same here put in our new
address and come down here and click on that and there it is right there we'll go to more details
and in the stop name it was good water vineyards and the nights of stay we're going to stay one
night there and where do we want it to come after so in this case we're going from the homestead to
mcmillan farms to the sharon johnson park and then we want to go to the good water vineyards so we'll
add it after the sharon johnson park and as you can see on the bottom right here we have stopped
and if you look on the map same thing here we have stopped there is no end to the map to take us in a
full circle the reason for that is we need to add our address back in again so we go back up the top
and we'll go ahead and put in our address do more details and the nicest day here it doesn't matter
we can just leave that as it is we want it to come after the good water vineyards we'll go ahead and
save that custom stop you're going to go ahead and start calculating it so it can get us back home
and once it's calculated you can see that it has a 7 hour and 24 mark now if you look at the map
again it's trying to take us all the way back up here through 64 again and we don't want to do that
so again we got to go and drag the route to make it self-correct so we come up here and get on this
route that goes all the way up at the top we want to take it back to the bottom again so i'm going
to click on this and hold down on it and get down here to the bottom all right now that all that is
done we have our route plan so from where we stop all the way down to where we end so we'll go ahead
and do the drag route turn that back off show the entire trip and it'll show we start from here
we're going to hit one of the harvest hose all the way down to alabama and then come back up to
another harvest and back home again so another thing i want to do is show you where your fuel
stops are so the fuel stops right here and right here so we'll click on this one click on a little
more details we want to add that to the trip and we want to do this one after our homestead trip
and if we come up here and look at this one and we'll add this one after the good border vineyards
and that'll get us our fuel going and coming back so now if you look on the left we'll have
our homestead about four and a half hours to our fuel stop two hours to the mcmillan farms another
four hours to the joseon park in alabama and then from there we're gonna head over to the good water
vineyards to our gas stop and then back home again we go back and show the entire trip again you'll
see all of our stops here that are in accordance to what we have on the left hand side of the rv
trip wizard once all that is done we can click on the little wrench up here and we could do a whole
bunch of other things that we want to do we can change trip settings we can send this to a friend
view visitors so on so forth the cool part about it is i like to be able to print or to print the
map itself and i can have an actual version in my hand just in case i lose any kind of signal while
out on the road so as you can see that's how rv trip wizard works and that's all the information
gonna give you now the cool thing that we said in the earlier part of the video about putting in
the information of your rv so in the case that we put in that we didn't want any tolls it's going to
avoid any tolls at any cost in order to get you to where you need to be according to your route plan
also what it's going to do is it's going to avoid any kind of bridges or tunnels or anything like
that that may be too low for your rig so make sure you put that information in as you're using the
rv trip wizard also another thing that's cool is not only on rv trip wizard is it on the computer
but it's on your mobile device as well and on the mobile device if you look up the app it's called
rv life and if you go to rvlife.com on the computer you'll see what all that looks like
but if you type it on here it'll show up so we'll go ahead and pull up the app where it has the rv
life app and we'll open that up and once it gets in we'll go down here where it says campground
map that little red bar at the bottom and we'll click on that and it'll pull itself up and where
it says rv trip wizard i want to click on that one you'll start seeing all these different trips
that we've planned but the one at the top family in alabama that's the one that we just created
i'll go ahead and open that up and you'll see all the information down here at the top right
hand corner there's three little dots and we have manage trip start directions from the first stop
and download offline maps for the trip all that information you can get all that here on your
mobile device so that's just about it for the rv trip wizard and planning out a trip also if
you're interested in rv trip wizard and you're looking at the details and the information about
getting a subscription all that stuff i'll leave some links down in the description below so you
can look all that up because the prices do change every now and then and i don't want to leave this
video out there with any false information so you can look in the link down in the description
below to get to that and find out what it's going to cost and what kind of subscription
that you're looking for so until the next time enjoy your trips keep them planned and god bless