When I started planning this trip I was looking for apps that would help me with either planning or executing my trip. In the Apple App Store I came across an app called Polarsteps. A travel blogging app that manages your photos and helps you to create a travel blog in pictures of places you have been. I have been using the app for the first time on this Road Trip and I absolutely love it. The only downside is that it currently is for the IPhone only and they don't recommend running it on multiple devices under the same account.
When you first install the app it goes through your photo library and tries to build trips based on your photos. It does a reasonable job, but sometimes it gets confused simply because we all save photos from friends and family we get during our travels and the app thinks they are part of the trip (which I guess in one sense they really are)
After it's done you can go through edit and delete those that you don't want. I personally just would delete some of the trips that I decided would be too much effort to fix. But overall I was pleasantly surprised at the job it did.
I then preprogrammed my next Road Trip so that on the at day it started I could just open that trip and start clicking away. I found that the app was ridiculously easy to use and in fact fun. I found myself taking extra photos just so I could catalogue my route better as I drove. For me it's a joy to see where I have been with the map that displays where you took your photo.
So if you are thinking of traveling and want an easy way to share photos this is much nicer than Facebook.
Central Coast Senior 
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