You can discover new places, map out your trip, share your encounters, and save money along the way with special promotions. – Always on the interstate? Love road trips? This is the must-have app for you. It’s free for Apple, Android and Windows devices and smartphones. This is really handy when you travel, but surprisingly useful locally, where I always seem to find cool things nearby that I didn’t know about.
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Whatever you’re looking for -grocery stores, banks, hospitals, gas stations, movie theaters. We had a big crowd at the FMCA Family Reunion, with lots of questions.Ī – This app is all about providing local info. It will even give me turn-by turn-voice directions to them via Google Maps, which shows my position and vectors me in to my destination perfectly.īut I also use apps and online sources while traveling.
We need to stock up on food so I say “find me a supermarket.” Siri returns two of them. In Redmond, for example, I can say “find me a Laudromat” and, in maybe two seconds, Siri says “I’ve found seven Laundromats” in my vicinity. These days, with solid Internet connectivity available almost everywhere, I admit almost with no shame that probably my best most used iPhone feature is Siri, Apple’s famous voice recognition tool that tells you pretty much what you want to know.
If you are an Android or Windows or Blackberry user, these may or may not apply. Though I’ve used Android gizmos, I keep coming back to Apple, especially the iPhone. Most apps now come in versions for different platforms. Now we RVers all have our favorite technology devices, with Android and Apple smartphones and tablets accounting for the vast majority. At FMCA's Family Reunion in Redmond last week, I presented a seminar called Apps for the Open Road in which I share some of my favorite apps and online resources for RVers.
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