I have used both ride max and touring plans for years. I started ride max and loved loved loved it. Then touring plans started to allow you to do the same thing, plug in what you want and kick out a plan, specific to you. This year I bought them both again like I have for almost 5 Tyra's, 10 years for ridemax. Anyway, at this point and with my experience this year I have to say go with touring plan. My problem with ride max, is that the calander can be very very very slow coming. Years ago they had the calander 6 weeks out. As the years went down, it gets to be a smaller indow. I had to write them just last week, we leave in less than 2 weeks and the calander was not out yet, when you have 8 days of plans you want and tweaking them, I need to be able to play for a while on a weekend. We now leave in 5 days, and this past weekend was the only weekend I had to play with it, and I just did not have time. The other problem I had, was they were always real friendly. When you emailed them and thanked you for your support and continued patronism, this time when I emailed, all I got was an email a few days later saying you probably noticed but calander is up. Now that touring plan does the same thing, and is cheaper, I would go with them.