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Travel Tools & Tips for Planning, Scheduling, Recording & Commemorating Your Trips

Planning, travel tracking, and archival tools you can use to create a less stressful trip

Tools for Planning Long Trips: Where to Begin

Terri Sanne Dec 29, 2022

We have taken several trips that required a lot of planning to make work smoothly. I use several planning tools and applications to organize and schedule a long trip. These will allow you to enjoy the journey and limit the worry involved in traveling. I'll show you how I use these tools for planning long trips, and that will help you understand…

Tools to Create Maps & Itineraries

Terri Sanne Dec 29, 2022

In this post, I will show you how to create maps using the My Places feature of Google Maps. You can mark all of the places you hope to see…

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An Easier Way to Create Maps & Itineraries

Terri Sanne Dec 29, 2022

In this post, I will show you an easier way to create places on maps & itineraries using Scout Explore. Instead of using Google Maps with…

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An Even Easier Way to Create Maps & Itineraries

Terri Sanne Feb 24, 2023

Update 3/17: They come and they go. I wrote the below post last year and used the Pebbler app several times. I thought it was decent, and the…

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Tools and Tips on Bookings

Terri Sanne Jan 14, 2023

Tools and Tips on Bookings - In this post, I will share sites and apps that you can use to book accommodations and make other travel-related…

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Tools and Tips for Air Travel

Terri Sanne Jan 14, 2023

Tools and Tips for Air Travel - in this post, I'll give you some tips for booking air travel which I've learned from traveling by plane for…

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What travel programs should you join?

Terri Sanne Jan 15, 2023

What travel programs should you join? How you travel and where you travel and how often you travel dictate which travel programs you should…

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Tools to record your trip steps

Terri Sanne Dec 29, 2022

There are several useful tools for recording your trip steps as you're traveling. Each one is suited to the type of trip you're taking. The…

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Tools to Reflect on Your Trips

Terri Sanne Jan 9, 2023

I remember things visually. I'm a long-time scrapbooker and moved a decade ago to document our important memories digitally. So, in this…

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What to do with Fido

Terri Sanne Feb 26, 2023

When we went to Australia, we went for six weeks. At the time we had a 14-year-old Lhasa Apso that had been diagnosed with diabetes. That…

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About Us

We are Rick and Terri from Northern California. Welcome to our blog. Here we introduce tools, tips, and apps we use to make travel plans, to travel and to document your travels, among other topics. We also write about traveling to various parts of the world, including the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. You might even find a post about the Arctic Circle and Antarctica at some point. Learn more about us in the About Us page.

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