This is a neat way to explore my route. The red line is roughly where I'll be riding. The green dots are changes in the route (intersections where I turn, etc) and the red dots are services like motels, c-stores, etc, along my route. The neat thing is that all of this is loaded into my handheld GPS unit, which I will have on the ride. This is all made possible by the resourceful people at Adventure Cycling (http://adventurecycling.org) who provide great maps for cyclists as well as corresponding GPX data files.
Map loaded by GPX Loader Author: Bryce Nesbitt, Revision: October 2005, Licence: Freeware