APP for tracking State Travels
My wife and I are soon to head out in our retirement travels and would love to log our travels on some kind of spreadsheet or App, in case we re~travel the states and locations in those states.
Forum Discussion
- google 'travel blogs'.
or you can just google 'free blogs' and then search for RV, Full time, etc . They are free and have many different styles to choose from. Make them public or private. This one had a real good interactive map for tracking travels. I don't belong to it anymore so not sure if they still offer it.
https://www.travelblog.org/
Many of them include an interactive map that will track and save your trips so you and/or your family can view them later. Most use templates which makes it very easy to upload daily your pictures, enter text etc.
Here is a link to a travel map:
Quick Step-by-Step Guide to Tracking Routes with the Routes.Tips App
complete with clickable pictures/info for each stop
https://routes.tips/blog/how_to_add_interactive_maps_to_travel_blogs - Google Maps does this if you have location history turned on on your smart phone. See "Your Timeline" on the Maps menu. It'll tell you every place you stopped.
- Garmin automotive GPS offer a trip log / gps trail feature. You can download that data into Garmin Basecamp and plot your travels on a map. Really handy for review if you forget for a day or two to make notes on your travels.
Otherwise, as ancient as it sounds, a moleskine or similar and a good pen work better than any app. Record metrics about the day's travels such as distance, fuel, temperature, neat things spotted. Then you can put it into a spreadsheet on a rainy day, and make blog posts or youtube about it.
Or use the Google NOTE TO SELF feature, for example.
"Okay Google note to self Today we drove 200 miles from Sometown through Bigcity before stopping in Anyplace."
Spreadsheet-wise, Google sheets is free and now works without Internet on both laptop and any smartphone.
