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Trip financial planning spreadsheet
Hello everyone,
I put together an Excel spreadsheet on my site to use for trip financial planning (trip cost and savings calculations). I hope it will be useful for someone. Please, let me know what you think.
Motorcycle Trip Financial Planner | The Adventure Motorcycle Blog
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3 Dec 2008
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Very nice! You could make this more accessibly by making it into a Google Doc.
I'm going to use this for my trip.
Thanks!
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Hi Atlas,
Thanks for the comments! Unfortunately Google docs (like Zoho) does not cooperate with Excel's charts and graphs. You can, however, download the file and upload it to your Google docs account. Functionally it should work, it just doesn't look as nice and the charts don't show up.
I've also been told it works fairly well in OpenOffice (a free alternative to Excel).
Love your blog BTW! I've been drooling over your Utah pics. One of these days I've gotta make it out west.
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wow this spreadsheet is awesome
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WQF,
OMG I went back to the page and just saw the Zoho things that displays the spreadsheet. It didn't load for me the first time for some reason. In the mean time I was converting it to a Google Doc. Here's mine:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k...M6tqOQfvHHzPaw
I pretty much copied what you did (didn't feel like calculating the interest stuff). This really is a VERY nice resource. I am all about trying to quantify as much as I can. I know it will all go to hell on the road, but that's half the fun! I've just started to take a realistic look at what it will take to make it to TDF and back, and this has opened my eyes to the kind of saving I will have to do.
Thanks for posting this! If I have any additional ideas I will post back here.
Glad you liked my pics of Utah. There really are some amazing sights out there.
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Just a quick update. I just put up version 4 on my site which includes added functionality for "2 bike" planning.
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Great work
Thanks for putting that together.
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