I know it's a gross invasion of my privacy, but I freaking love Google Map Timelines. Shows roadtripping in vivid detail I would never capture on my own. Memories, pictures, and routes- I flick back through timelines more often than I just look at pictures.
does this work on iphone? I enabled it last year, but when I visit Google Timeline, its empty. Says Location History is On and that my mobile device is reporting it.
Edit: Nevermind. I think i got it working. I had to check the box for iphone on the google settings page (nothing to do with the device setup). Same place you turn on history, there is a further setting hidden, where you check the devices you want to report hidden under a drop down menu.
It's so awesome. You can get it done hour by hour, day by day. I don't really care much for them having my info since I don't even have money to buy what's being marketed towards me š
https://preview.redd.it/m0t37gghntbc1.jpeg?width=4608&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09ba7f8022c50ca94afca7bd51f7403bb6283f3e
This was our first road trip pulling a camper. 101 days. Started in Portland late March and headed south. Furthest point from home was the northern tip of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.
Fridge magnets of parks and notable towns/attractions.
A couple trips I've bought a collage picture frame and got a handful of the better photos printed.
Occasionally a t-shirt.
My fridge is my road trip mural.
Road map on the freezer with color-coded routes, magnets I've bought in parks/towns/attraction, and magnetic photo sleeves for my favorite photos.
1) My Wife scrapbooks extensively. We have massive scrapbooks from every roadtrip we've done.
2) We have one of those maps of the U.S. with cutouts for each state, and a picture of our family from each state.
Thousands and thousands of pictures. My wife curates them on the road in various albums. We also have a map of North America and we pin our various destinations.
We usually buy something . Sometimes we look for art co-ops or craft shows . Find something that reminds you of where you are. Or collect the pretty stones from a river and put them in a nice jar . I have a jar of salt from the great salt flats. A painting from The Grand Tetons. A fish fossil from Fossil Butte.
Yeah, we tend to buy little souvenirs, too. I guess I meant a way to remember the actual routes. Like, a map you can look at to see all the routes you've taken
Find Penguins app
So easy to make posts and log while traveling, and it uses gps while traveling to mark your route so you don't have to do it manually.
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lol thatās awesome. I canāt trust pins to stay on any of my clothing, so I have them on a cork board. Eventually plan is to get small pieces of paper and write down where and when I got them, then pin the paper beneath the pin.
I have a map Iāve bought from Holy Cow Canvas that has pins in the places Iāve visited. Itās my favorite thing hanging up in my house.
Iām not really a souvenir person but I will pick up pamphlets from National Park sites or bring home consumables. I also only take a few pictures.
I buy shot glasses at all my stops.
Favourite one so far is from my road trip to Vegas where I stopped in a little town called beaver.
Shot glass says I ā¤ļø Beaver
At the risk of promoting a website off-Reddit, there is mob-rule where folks can log every county/parish/borough/independent city they've visited. One can select multiple colors to add nuance to them; I use a certain color to indicate that I've overnighted there, another color to indicate a new county visited during the current calendar year. I know someone who has a color for the county seat or equivalent.
Shot glasses. Almost every little kitschy gift shop has them, and I probably have about a hundred.
We also have a little dashboard hula girl that comes with us on every trip as our mascot.
I've been on the move since August, exploring as much as I can and then stopping to work remotely out of AirBnBs in each state. Here's what I've done so far; it's fun tracking my own progress, and it's really motivating having a goal to canvas as much of the U.S. as possible.
https://preview.redd.it/jwjwzkwqeubc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65a52220ef513bc452b443cefb30ac164e6ccd7f
It is indeed! Getting close to 10,000 miles on this journey and it has been an absolute champ so far. I bought it in LA in 2019 and ended up just falling in love with road tripping in it. So basic, and so much fun when you can avoid interstates and find all the great backroads. After doing multiple laps around California in it I decided it's time to head out and see where else I can go. Did that loop out through Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona.
I've been in Sedona this past month and am about to head to Tucson for a while, then once spring time approaches I'm heading up through the Pacific Northwest and a bit of Canada.
https://preview.redd.it/42jhwjqo8vbc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=1d61e86685546eeda0585225ae5cb64d71063b70
Roadside trinkets! Picked up this turtle from a Navajo craft stand at the 4-corners monument on last years trip from San Diego to Telluride.
When I retired in 06, I bought a Michelin road atlas. 10 years later, my son and daughter-in-law bought me a large scale Rand McNally road atlas (ha ha). I like paper maps and have a drawer full in my desk. Lots of fond road trip memories.
I will buy something. Usually small, definitely trip specific. Then it goes on a shelf. In the tradition of the 18th and 19th century I call it my Grand Tour bookshelf. They are a part of what I see every day, and trigger memories.
I would suggest polarsteps, you can document your journey with pictures and send it to your friends and family so they are updated. I had a friend do that since the countries she was traveling to hardly had internet
We buy art, too. It is a fun way to support the local economy and decorate our home. I also have a bunch of patches on my hiking bag and stickers on my water bottle from National parks and places like the SPAM museum
We buy something, usually something cheesy like a shot glass or fridge magnet, maybe postcards. If we go to a beach, we bring back sand. Iāve brought back beer bottles and cans from local craft breweries too.
Yes, I kept the map printouts with all the stops (the trip went through lots of places with no cell signal so I printed out the maps, addresses and phone numbers).
I kept any brochures from places I went.
I also kept notes.
The pictures are in my phone, and in a file in a thumb drive.
It's all in a giant gallon sized baggie, and in my bookshelf.
A journal.
Helps me keep track of good campsites and local conditions if I want to return or give beta to friends traveling there. Records weather at the time, location via GPS, and of course can use photos or voice memos. Day One on iOS. https://dayoneapp.com/
I don't do maps because I remember well enough without them. Exception being some offroading jaunts, and those are preserved in Gaia.
On my last road trip a few weeks ago, my dad brought along a laminated physical map of Northern California. Both of us consulted it several times. Twas a pleasure!
My favourite is a digital map. I can also zoom in to remind me of sections and click on stops to remind me of that stop.
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If youāre curious the colours are for when the trip was made.
Green: before 2000.
Blue: 2000-2009.
Yellow: 2010-2019.
Red: 2020-
Empty pins are stops, pins with dots are overnight stays, thumbtacks is my home.
I am a county counter. I use the Mob Rule website. My USA county map is http://www.mob-rule.com/user-gifs/USA/mikelowe93.gif . They have other places too.
Yes it is only as granular as county sizes. But I had a lot of fun making the map over the years. The tools there can be really helpful when you want to maximize county acquisition during a trip. It took planning to get 100% of Texas counties without leaving empty donut holes in the map.
We use furkot.com for planning, then the routes are on there after the trip so we can remember where we went on which trip. I like to even put in our regular routes we take to visit family across the country. They give you arrival times based on your speed (I drive slower than the speed limit in most places and put that in settings) and will show gas stops based on your tank size.
We remember random crap that we get on trips, even if it has nothing to do with the place. For instance, I remember that the trumpet we got on a trip was from an antique store near Leavenworth, WA and my bear doorstop is from a place in Montana the night before we camped at that place with all the rednecks.
Pilot travel plaza sells state license plate keychains. Anytime iām in a new state I stop and pick on up. When I have more than 30 Iāll start a shadow box
Google Earth - all the routes and places and stops and ā¦ everything
Google Maps - key flags Iāll save
And a SH!T ton of photos. Like, even the gas stations and random crap like that Iāll stop at/ pass by.
AAA Paper maps. Here is the latest map of my recent, last 5 years or so, of SW adventures. I have others for USA x-country trips and for California Coastal and Mountain trips. Coastal map is in pretty rough shape after 40+ years!
I grew up doing road trips with my family and paper maps were the only tools we had. I drew one up for a circumnavigation of the US during Covid, hope to get to use it someday.
https://preview.redd.it/w9buz7bguwbc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a352d972ce4f7d96fb10b31b4f2c760d5bdffc2
I started picking up little rocks or small things that I can write memories on. I paint the rocks with chalk paint write everyoneās favorite memory their name, date and location and a coat of clear finish. I have them all in a glass bowl for everyone to look at
I love getting magnets from any major city, state, or national park we stop at. My fridge is covered and I love looking at all the places Iāve been. It can make a bad day a little less bad when you see it.
I know it's a gross invasion of my privacy, but I freaking love Google Map Timelines. Shows roadtripping in vivid detail I would never capture on my own. Memories, pictures, and routes- I flick back through timelines more often than I just look at pictures.
does this work on iphone? I enabled it last year, but when I visit Google Timeline, its empty. Says Location History is On and that my mobile device is reporting it. Edit: Nevermind. I think i got it working. I had to check the box for iphone on the google settings page (nothing to do with the device setup). Same place you turn on history, there is a further setting hidden, where you check the devices you want to report hidden under a drop down menu.
It's definitely a shit more inconvenient to acti ate it on my iPhone compared to my android.
It's great for when you blackout the night before.
It's so awesome. You can get it done hour by hour, day by day. I don't really care much for them having my info since I don't even have money to buy what's being marketed towards me š
https://preview.redd.it/m0t37gghntbc1.jpeg?width=4608&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09ba7f8022c50ca94afca7bd51f7403bb6283f3e This was our first road trip pulling a camper. 101 days. Started in Portland late March and headed south. Furthest point from home was the northern tip of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.
You went all the way to California and only drove through Fresno, Bakersfield, and Sacramento?? The Central Valley is the worst part of California.
You are right. We were on a mission at that point.
Fridge magnets of parks and notable towns/attractions. A couple trips I've bought a collage picture frame and got a handful of the better photos printed. Occasionally a t-shirt.
My fridge is my road trip mural. Road map on the freezer with color-coded routes, magnets I've bought in parks/towns/attraction, and magnetic photo sleeves for my favorite photos.
1) My Wife scrapbooks extensively. We have massive scrapbooks from every roadtrip we've done. 2) We have one of those maps of the U.S. with cutouts for each state, and a picture of our family from each state.
Buy a novelty T shirt I only wear on special occasions.
Thousands and thousands of pictures. My wife curates them on the road in various albums. We also have a map of North America and we pin our various destinations.
Lots of pictures. We also have a photo map hanging on the wall - each state gets a photo in the shape of the state.
We usually buy something . Sometimes we look for art co-ops or craft shows . Find something that reminds you of where you are. Or collect the pretty stones from a river and put them in a nice jar . I have a jar of salt from the great salt flats. A painting from The Grand Tetons. A fish fossil from Fossil Butte.
Yeah, we tend to buy little souvenirs, too. I guess I meant a way to remember the actual routes. Like, a map you can look at to see all the routes you've taken
Oh cool . Grab a paper map ( AAA has them or sometimes rest areas have them ) frame it !:)
Find Penguins app So easy to make posts and log while traveling, and it uses gps while traveling to mark your route so you don't have to do it manually. *
Does my picture show up? It doesn't on my side. I've never posted a picture. I don't know if I did something wrong.
I buy pins from the places I visit, cheaper and easier to display than tshirts.
My brother has a sweet jean jacket with all the pins from places he's been.
lol thatās awesome. I canāt trust pins to stay on any of my clothing, so I have them on a cork board. Eventually plan is to get small pieces of paper and write down where and when I got them, then pin the paper beneath the pin.
love that!
I have a shadow box with all my ski area pins.
Thatās dope
I have a map Iāve bought from Holy Cow Canvas that has pins in the places Iāve visited. Itās my favorite thing hanging up in my house. Iām not really a souvenir person but I will pick up pamphlets from National Park sites or bring home consumables. I also only take a few pictures.
I buy shot glasses at all my stops. Favourite one so far is from my road trip to Vegas where I stopped in a little town called beaver. Shot glass says I ā¤ļø Beaver
At the risk of promoting a website off-Reddit, there is mob-rule where folks can log every county/parish/borough/independent city they've visited. One can select multiple colors to add nuance to them; I use a certain color to indicate that I've overnighted there, another color to indicate a new county visited during the current calendar year. I know someone who has a color for the county seat or equivalent.
Shot glasses. Almost every little kitschy gift shop has them, and I probably have about a hundred. We also have a little dashboard hula girl that comes with us on every trip as our mascot.
Penny stretchers. I have one of those āPO Box turned into piggy bankā things. Eventually Iāll take them out and look at them and reminisce.
I've been on the move since August, exploring as much as I can and then stopping to work remotely out of AirBnBs in each state. Here's what I've done so far; it's fun tracking my own progress, and it's really motivating having a goal to canvas as much of the U.S. as possible. https://preview.redd.it/jwjwzkwqeubc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65a52220ef513bc452b443cefb30ac164e6ccd7f
Brave person doing this much road in an old BMW! Is it a 2002?
It is indeed! Getting close to 10,000 miles on this journey and it has been an absolute champ so far. I bought it in LA in 2019 and ended up just falling in love with road tripping in it. So basic, and so much fun when you can avoid interstates and find all the great backroads. After doing multiple laps around California in it I decided it's time to head out and see where else I can go. Did that loop out through Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona. I've been in Sedona this past month and am about to head to Tucson for a while, then once spring time approaches I'm heading up through the Pacific Northwest and a bit of Canada.
https://preview.redd.it/42jhwjqo8vbc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=1d61e86685546eeda0585225ae5cb64d71063b70 Roadside trinkets! Picked up this turtle from a Navajo craft stand at the 4-corners monument on last years trip from San Diego to Telluride.
When I retired in 06, I bought a Michelin road atlas. 10 years later, my son and daughter-in-law bought me a large scale Rand McNally road atlas (ha ha). I like paper maps and have a drawer full in my desk. Lots of fond road trip memories.
I will buy something. Usually small, definitely trip specific. Then it goes on a shelf. In the tradition of the 18th and 19th century I call it my Grand Tour bookshelf. They are a part of what I see every day, and trigger memories.
I remember them with my brain. I also take pictures which I never organize or label.
Buy a disposable camera for your trips, it's fun and only costs $20 to develop at Walgreens.
They still develop film at Walgreens?
Surprisingly yes! You can also send them your phone photos via their app and they'll print them.
I knew that. I've done it.
Holy cow - who else remembers when you could develop film at Walgreens (2 copies of each photo) for $1.99?
Stickers and magnets from major attractions I visited. the back of van is full of stickers. My fridge is full of magnets.
I would suggest polarsteps, you can document your journey with pictures and send it to your friends and family so they are updated. I had a friend do that since the countries she was traveling to hardly had internet
We buy art, too. It is a fun way to support the local economy and decorate our home. I also have a bunch of patches on my hiking bag and stickers on my water bottle from National parks and places like the SPAM museum
We buy something, usually something cheesy like a shot glass or fridge magnet, maybe postcards. If we go to a beach, we bring back sand. Iāve brought back beer bottles and cans from local craft breweries too.
Yes, I kept the map printouts with all the stops (the trip went through lots of places with no cell signal so I printed out the maps, addresses and phone numbers). I kept any brochures from places I went. I also kept notes. The pictures are in my phone, and in a file in a thumb drive. It's all in a giant gallon sized baggie, and in my bookshelf.
My fridge is covered in those cheesy souvenir magnates with the names of places we've been to.
I print and frame my best photo from the trip and put it in my office.
A journal. Helps me keep track of good campsites and local conditions if I want to return or give beta to friends traveling there. Records weather at the time, location via GPS, and of course can use photos or voice memos. Day One on iOS. https://dayoneapp.com/ I don't do maps because I remember well enough without them. Exception being some offroading jaunts, and those are preserved in Gaia.
Fridge magnets. We get one from at least each state, but more often attractions that we stop and see
The National Park and mountain maps I pin up on the walls in my garage.
I mostly drive off street signs but i do have a couple 20-30 y/o Michelin maps and i do use Google maps more than id like to admit
On my last road trip a few weeks ago, my dad brought along a laminated physical map of Northern California. Both of us consulted it several times. Twas a pleasure!
Tattoos. Lots and lots of tattoos.
My favourite is a digital map. I can also zoom in to remind me of sections and click on stops to remind me of that stop. https://preview.redd.it/1cxfukuv0vbc1.jpeg?width=1334&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=844206657c168a375769eb9dec25c56faea5f1ed
If youāre curious the colours are for when the trip was made. Green: before 2000. Blue: 2000-2009. Yellow: 2010-2019. Red: 2020- Empty pins are stops, pins with dots are overnight stays, thumbtacks is my home.
I am a county counter. I use the Mob Rule website. My USA county map is http://www.mob-rule.com/user-gifs/USA/mikelowe93.gif . They have other places too. Yes it is only as granular as county sizes. But I had a lot of fun making the map over the years. The tools there can be really helpful when you want to maximize county acquisition during a trip. It took planning to get 100% of Texas counties without leaving empty donut holes in the map.
We use furkot.com for planning, then the routes are on there after the trip so we can remember where we went on which trip. I like to even put in our regular routes we take to visit family across the country. They give you arrival times based on your speed (I drive slower than the speed limit in most places and put that in settings) and will show gas stops based on your tank size. We remember random crap that we get on trips, even if it has nothing to do with the place. For instance, I remember that the trumpet we got on a trip was from an antique store near Leavenworth, WA and my bear doorstop is from a place in Montana the night before we camped at that place with all the rednecks.
My kid make up one of those cheap SHUTTERFLY books with about 60 of the best pics.
Pilot travel plaza sells state license plate keychains. Anytime iām in a new state I stop and pick on up. When I have more than 30 Iāll start a shadow box
Pressed pennies
Google Earth - all the routes and places and stops and ā¦ everything Google Maps - key flags Iāll save And a SH!T ton of photos. Like, even the gas stations and random crap like that Iāll stop at/ pass by.
AAA Paper maps. Here is the latest map of my recent, last 5 years or so, of SW adventures. I have others for USA x-country trips and for California Coastal and Mountain trips. Coastal map is in pretty rough shape after 40+ years! I grew up doing road trips with my family and paper maps were the only tools we had. I drew one up for a circumnavigation of the US during Covid, hope to get to use it someday. https://preview.redd.it/w9buz7bguwbc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a352d972ce4f7d96fb10b31b4f2c760d5bdffc2
Shot glasses
I have an old road map atlas, and I've used a sharpie to highlight all of the highway routes I've done on trips with my car.
I keep a detailed spreadsheet of each trip, with a summary page of nights, mileage, cities, etc.
There are things called mobile phones nowadays.
My plan would be an Instagram post, plus maybe one of those pinned story collections. Probably save a few choice photos to my favorites too.
Usually buy a book from a museum or two along the way.
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I started picking up little rocks or small things that I can write memories on. I paint the rocks with chalk paint write everyoneās favorite memory their name, date and location and a coat of clear finish. I have them all in a glass bowl for everyone to look at
I love getting magnets from any major city, state, or national park we stop at. My fridge is covered and I love looking at all the places Iāve been. It can make a bad day a little less bad when you see it.
https://preview.redd.it/nbcjdy16y4cc1.jpeg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d1b334f8311ac98f1da7d4730c1cffb51a6797a1 Not up to date