On January 1st I published a post on 2021 travel, that included a map of our travel stops and route for last year. A month later I followed up with an update on our planned route for 2022.

I recently had the idea to combine the maps into one, overlaying the routes from 2021 and 2022, so we can see everywhere we’ve traveled in our coach, plus last year’s Yellowstone trip in a rental trailer. To keep them from being too confusing, I changed the colors for each of the three routes.

I made the combined image wide, to use as the header on the Sinclair Trails Facebook page:

Here’s a cropped edition:

And cropped some more, to only show the parts of the country we’ve explored so far, or plan to this year:

I made this by taking screenshots of the excellent RV Life Trip Wizard web app, which we use to plan our routes, then combined them in Acorn, my favorite image editor for macOS:

Here’s the base map of the US, obtained from the Trip Wizard by combining multiple screenshots:

Each route is in a separate layer, with extraneous content lassoed out, and the hue altered to give each one a unique color; here’s 2021:

The Yellowstone trip:

2022:

The combined result again:

I think this is fascinating to look at, and a useful reference. I plan to update it as we plan future stops (the 2022 route only covers till October). What do you think? Interesting?