EAST LANSING -- It's a map that makes you dream of summer days and green Michigan landscape sliding by outside your driver's side window. Randal Olson, a computer science and engineering doctorate ...

This week, Michigan-native Randy Olson, the same gent who computed the national map, published a 2,098-mile, 43-site trip though Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.

Using the Michigan Department of Transportation’s MiDrive map can give readers an idea of how much extra time their trip may take — or if they should risk taking the trip at all.