Our Drive

I tried different sites to locate one that I could add my stops along the way and be able to add activities, etc. I decided on myscenicdrives.com  The downside to this site is as I was adding stops for our trip in May, every time I wanted to update directions I got a message that some of the roads may not be accessible, which they wouldn't be near the Grand Canyon in January! I was unable to get the total driving time or route to show up on the map. So that was a little frustrating. 

So here I am in mid January and I have our places booked along the route and some idea as to the places of interest we will be visiting. Both Tom and myself have the National Parks & Federal Recreational Lands Lifetime Senior Pass 

which gets us half off the camping fees in the National Parks and free entrance to into national parks and national wildlife refuges, in addition to standard amenity fees at national forests and grasslands, and lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Reclamation. If you are 62 or older you can get this at https://support.recreation.gov/articles/en_US/Article/Create-a-Recreation-gov-Account .
I booked almost all our campgrounds, or as many as I could though their site. We did make a few reservations along the way at motels so we could do laundry, get a decent breakfast and most of all sleep in a real bed!