Planning a Road Trip

Given that my family requires each member to undertake at least one road trip per year, I've been working on my next one. And my logical (but old-fashioned) approach would be to buy a large map of the US, stick pins in it and mark a route. But being partially geeky, I decided to pretended I was Bill Gates and imagined his approach. He would tell me to use Bing Maps, with some superficially attractive solution that was actually copied from a competitor, but mangled and Microsofted, so that's how I came up with my final solution - Google Maps. If you sign in, you have an option called My Places that lets you stick electronic pins in a map, and tie electronic string from one pin to another. Have a play; it's quite impressive. And the bonus is that you can share it with your friends and family and your stalkers !