No wonder you are having problems with Basecamp....
All my early longer rides learning the roads were done this way and I would use a ruler to figure out how many km to my next turn point and include that in my turn by turn list. So many small 'Y' intersections were never in the map books, so I always got lost and had to double back. A 6hr ride was often 10 hrs. But it was awesome.
I'm still using it and love it. Several years I ago I spent $99 for a lifetime gold membership and it was such a great offer for such a feature reach program. I have a library of routes of my past trips saved in it and I can access them from anywhere, including my phone since it's web-based. Most of my multi day trips get plotted as one long route and then I can chop them up into each day's portion with the click of button. Or toggle between map views, satellite, topographic or street views to check out a road to see if it makes sense. Or layer on gas stations or motels or campgrounds at any time. And best of all, it uses the Google Maps platform.
I have the plastic map pocket on the tank bag too. When on a long trip, at a break, I pull the gps off the bike and put it in my pocket. Take the tank bag in for a coffee break and browse the paper map. Fold it in the section that covers the next three hours or so and place that section in the clear plastic cover to See where I want to end up. Once on the bike the gps is for back up and getting back on track of I get lost. I will also pull my phone out for Google Maps if I’m really lost or need something. How did we manage 20 years ago.
I choose scissors... I win.
