Yes, yes, I know - we take vacations to unplug. While I do not encourage using your phone to check your email while lying on the beach, there are times when technology will actually make your trip better, and not just for the pictures.
Not all who wander are lost - unless you are. What makes this app great? It’s packed with crowd-sourced info about trails, tours, outfitters, lodging, food, drink AND you can download your top picks so your phone is your guide even if you are in a national park cell phone black hole (of which there are many). If you hike, this is hands-down the best app to have - we used it constantly to stay on our trails in Yellowstone, Joshua Tree and Acadia.
2. Culture Trip
LOVE this app. As soon as we settle on a destination, I am all about planning things to do on trips for my family, as well as for my clients. Culture Trip is a collection of short articles about destinations all over the world that cover a huge variety of topics and interests. Best for me – the pictures! I am a visual person and I like to see a place to know if I want to visit that place. Case in point - Antelope Canyon. I mean...
...adding it to your next trip out west?
3. Roadtrippers
Most common phrases on our family road trips...I’ll give you a hint – it's not “Are we there yet?”! Some of our favorite travel memories were made after “It’s on the way!” or “It’s just off the interstate!” (also possibly an eye roll from my husband). You already know that when we road trip, we try to see everything we can along the way. This great little app helps you do just that – enter your destination and it displays things to do, points of interest and a host of other stops along your mapped route. I am using Roadtrippers right now to for our Spring Break trip to the Gulf and the kids can't wait to vote on what stops we make.
Not a shocker, anyone who has traveled internationally has probably used this BUT there is a great new feature this year which allows travelers to snap a picture of text, highlight it and translate it to English. Seriously, I can’t tell you how great this would have been when my husband and I were in Amsterdam seeing "poep niet op de stoep" signs everywhere we went. Visualize those words around a picture of a dog and then pop that into Google Translate.
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