duffy
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Last time we went, we did not have good maps. We wasted time trying to get oriented. 
This time, I plan to have the best maps I can get--would those be just AAA maps?
We're driving, and will be bringing our laptop, and one idea I've had, is to use Microsoft's virtual earth site to save satellite pictures on the hard drive, so I can direct my husband (he's always the pilot and I'm always the navigator. 12-year old is the bombadier.
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I've saved satellite pictures of I-4, from mid-Orlando, to our destination at the Wilderness Lodge. I make sure I'm on the "hybrid" selection, so I see the satellite picture and the roads are labelled too.
I use the "print" icon on the virtual earth pages to then open a new window, right-click and choose "save picture". I keep moving the cursor to further along the road, from our exit off of I-4, little by little to the Lodge. I must have 40-some pictures saved, of step-by-step approaches to the Lodge. Hopefully, I will know each overpass and exit that we approach before we get to it!!
I also saved satellite images of the surrounding area, too, so I'll know how to get to shopping arears, etc. I love Virtual Earth!!
This time, I plan to have the best maps I can get--would those be just AAA maps? We're driving, and will be bringing our laptop, and one idea I've had, is to use Microsoft's virtual earth site to save satellite pictures on the hard drive, so I can direct my husband (he's always the pilot and I'm always the navigator. 12-year old is the bombadier.
)I've saved satellite pictures of I-4, from mid-Orlando, to our destination at the Wilderness Lodge. I make sure I'm on the "hybrid" selection, so I see the satellite picture and the roads are labelled too.
I use the "print" icon on the virtual earth pages to then open a new window, right-click and choose "save picture". I keep moving the cursor to further along the road, from our exit off of I-4, little by little to the Lodge. I must have 40-some pictures saved, of step-by-step approaches to the Lodge. Hopefully, I will know each overpass and exit that we approach before we get to it!!
I also saved satellite images of the surrounding area, too, so I'll know how to get to shopping arears, etc. I love Virtual Earth!!
I just follow the highway signs. They are pretty accurate and I have yet to get lost driving to WDW. Of course since I convinced my DW to actually FLY 
to Florida on an actual plane that DIDN'T 
bus service to and from our resort... we stopped the 2 day driving trip from NJ!!!
It's not so much the highway driving that I'm concerned about, it's when we actually are in and around the World. You know, the 5-mile radius around the parks. Not every road is labelled, and I can definitely see us at a red light, not sure if we should take this left or the next to get to the outlet shopping...ending up on a road with no signs...realizing we should have made that left turn at Albuquerque...oh, I've been there, my friend. 
