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Route 66 Interactive Travel Planner App | 14-Day Itinerary, Budget, Stops
Plan Your Route 66 Adventure In One Interactive App Planning the Mother Road can quickly turn into a mix of spreadsheets, screenshots, map tabs, booking emails, notes and fuel calculations.
Plan Your Route 66 Adventure In One Interactive App
Planning the Mother Road can quickly turn into a mix of spreadsheets, screenshots, map tabs, booking emails, notes and fuel calculations.
The SheetSmithery Route 66 Adventure Planner brings the full trip together in one interactive browser app.
It is a supercharged evolution of the original Route 66 workbook, retaining the route legs, eight-state progress, daily itinerary, stop planning, bookings, budget, expense log, fuel calculations, packing and memories, then adding app-style navigation, My Trip favourites and live research shortcuts.
A detailed 14-day starter route from Chicago to Santa Monica is included. Use it as your starting point or customise the days, miles, stops and notes around your own trip.
What Is Included
Interactive Route 66 dashboard
14-day editable starter itinerary
14 editable drive legs
Route progress and current-location tracker
Eight Route 66 state progress ribbon
Optional Las Vegas side trip clearly separated from the Route 66 route
39 starter places and attractions
Search and filter Places to Go
Save favourites to My Trip
Add your own custom places
Location and directions shortcuts
Live review searches
Menu searches for food and diner stops
Official information searches
Ticket and opening-hour searches for relevant attractions
Nearby activities searches
Bookings and stays tracker
Deposits and remaining balances
Trip budget planner
Actual expense log
Fuel and mileage calculator
Packing and pre-trip checklist
Memories and photo-stop log
Personal trip notes
Local auto-save where browser storage is supported
Portable backup and restore
Print or save as PDF
14-Day Starter Route
Day 1: Chicago to Springfield, Illinois
Day 2: Springfield to St Louis
Day 3: St Louis to Springfield, Missouri
Day 4: Springfield, Missouri to Tulsa via the Kansas section
Day 5: Tulsa to Oklahoma City
Day 6: Oklahoma City to Amarillo
Day 7: Amarillo to Santa Fe
Day 8: Santa Fe to Albuquerque
Day 9: Albuquerque to Gallup
Day 10: Gallup to Flagstaff through the Petrified Forest area
Day 11: Flagstaff to Kingman
Day 12: Kingman to Barstow
Day 13: Barstow to Santa Monica
Day 14: Santa Monica buffer and celebration day
The starter route carries forward approximately 2,267 planned miles from the original Route 66 tracker. The mileage is planning data, not live navigation, and should be adjusted to match the exact historic or modern alignments you choose to drive.
Places To Go
The app starts with 39 Route 66 places across Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
Examples include:
Historic Route 66 Begin Sign
Illinois Route 66 Hall of Fame & Museum
Cozy Dog Drive In
Gateway Arch
Chain of Rocks Bridge
Blue Whale of Catoosa
Arcadia Round Barn
Pops 66
Oklahoma Route 66 Museum
U-Drop Inn
Cadillac Ranch
Midpoint Cafe
Blue Swallow Motel
Santa Fe Plaza
Old Town Albuquerque
Petrified Forest National Park
Standin’ on the Corner Park
Seligman Historic District
Hackberry General Store
Oatman
Roy’s Motel & Cafe
California Route 66 Museum
Santa Monica Pier End of the Trail
Save any stop to My Trip or add your own places.
Live Location, Review, Menu And Activity Links
Rather than storing ratings, menus or opening hours that can become outdated, the app opens live searches when you have internet access.
Depending on the type of place, shortcuts can include:
Map
Directions
Reviews
Official information
Menu
Tickets / hours
Nearby activities
Road-condition research
This keeps the planner useful without pretending that live travel information is built into an offline HTML file.
Budget, Expenses And Fuel
Set your planned budget by category and record actual expenses as you travel.
The dashboard automatically shows planned budget, actual spend and remaining budget.
Fuel estimates use your own:
Planned miles
MPG assumption
Fuel price per gallon
You can also log actual miles and actual fuel costs for each route leg.
Bookings And Stays
Track:
Accommodation
Car rental
Activities
Restaurants
Other reservations
Store provider, city, date, total cost, deposit, remaining balance, reference and booking status.
Packing And Pre-Trip Prep
The starter checklist includes:
Driving licence / ID
Travel insurance details
Car rental confirmation
Offline route notes / maps
Emergency contact list
Chargers and power bank
Camera
Water bottles
Snacks / cool bag
First-aid kit
Walking shoes and layers
Sun protection
Vehicle pickup photos
Road-condition checks
Overnight booking checks
Opening-time checks
Tick items off and add your own extras.
Not A Spreadsheet
This product is an interactive HTML travel planner app.
No Excel required.
No Google Sheets required.
No subscription required.
Open the HTML file in a current web browser and start planning.
Compatibility
Designed for current browsers on:
Windows
macOS
Chromebook
Linux
Android phones and tablets
iPhone and iPad
For the best experience use a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox.
Saving Your Planner
The app attempts to save your entries locally in the browser where local storage is supported.
Use Save Backup to create a portable JSON backup, especially before moving the planner to another browser or device.
Restore lets you load that backup into another copy of the planner.
What You Receive
1. Route_66_Adventure_Planner_Interactive_App.html
2. START_HERE.txt
3. Personal_Use_Licence.txt
The Etsy download is a ZIP file containing these three customer files.
Perfect For
Route 66 bucket-list trips
Chicago to California road trips
Couples trips
Solo travel
Family road trips
Retirement adventures
Classic American road-trip planning
Travellers who want a one-file planner rather than another subscription app
Important Travel Note
This is a planning and organisation tool only.
Historic Route 66 alignments and the roads used by modern travellers differ in places. Starter mileages, drive times and stop suggestions are planning content and may not match the route you decide to drive.
Before booking or travelling, verify current routes, road conditions, closures, weather, attraction opening times, access, parking, menus, reviews, ticket requirements, documentation, insurance and reservation terms using appropriate current sources.
External map, review, menu, official-information, ticket and activity shortcuts require an internet connection.
Digital Product
This is an instant digital download. No physical item will be posted. For personal use only
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