#TRAVEL JOURNAL WITH MAPS PROFESSIONAL#

Refocusing on mobile apps brought me closer to the goal. I did not include such travel blogs in my comparison below. Until they have a companion mobile app like WordPress has one, writing on the go will be awkward.

Alas, as much as I got hyped reading its features, one point immediately cooled me off―although it’s mobile-friendly, it is web-based and requires internet to function, an obstacle in a wild remote location. I first thought of a cool-looking personal online travel blog and Exposure kept coming up and recommended as a solid and handy solution. Photos themselves tell stories but how about non-visual stories and observations? What goes past Instagram? You can write a post about your thoughts but how do you later piece it all together? Have you tried looking up your Facebook non-photo posts from 3 years ago? How can you tell a complete story to your child when she grows up? A dedicated electronic travel journal―as a unified medium that collects your notes, thoughts, details, photos, videos, etc.―still seems to be the best approach so this is the one I decided to take for my next trip. Of course, with the proliferation of technology, trips like that in 2014 get a fair chance of being recorded through mobile photography and a favorite social network. My attempt to bring an elaborate pocket diary to my 3rd trip to India in 2014 failed―I only wrote one record. I had lots of spare time but not as much later. I love writing and expressing myself epistolary so the former was a joy for me in my youth, such as this diary from 1996 when I was traveling between Moldova, Romania, Russia, and the US. There are two main approaches to travel journal writing: traditional pen-and-paper and electronic (social media posts, dedicated diary apps, Evernote, etc.). None of the mentioned app developers were advised of this research. I then realized that the massive data I put together would be a shame to bury and it may help someone else―I wish I found an overview like this a few weeks ago! What follows is my unbiased personal take on the travel journal apps which I formed for myself and then polished for my friends.

I’m a type of researcher who digs deep and throws everything in the comparison tables to crunch and rate the findings. What will be left of it in 20 years? In my preparations for India trip in a few weeks I decided to try changing it and find a versatile and engaging tool. TripIt, through which I’ve been logging almost all my itineraries since that year, tallies my journeys to about 207,000 miles in 22 countries, a little short of reaching the moon! Do I remember much of it? Perhaps on the surface, with spotty bursts of memories. Year 2008 was a milestone for me when I made my first business trip to Alaska.

#TRAVEL JOURNAL WITH MAPS PROFESSIONAL#

How do you keep your loved ones and friends abreast of your travels? Can you recollect all details of your 5-year-old trip to an exotic land? Is going back to Instagram or Facebook the best you can do? Here’s a traveling photographer’s comprehensive research and thorough unbiased review of 5 best travel journal apps.Ģ07,000 milesīeing a professional photographer opens many doors, including those far and away.

Travel journal with maps