{"id":971,"date":"2011-09-01T15:24:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T22:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/?p=971"},"modified":"2018-01-14T20:44:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T04:44:50","slug":"planning-a-fall-trip-theres-an-app-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/planning-a-fall-trip-theres-an-app-for-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning a fall trip? There&#8217;s an app for that!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re planning a road trip this fall, to Leavenworth or elsewhere in Washington State, and if you have an iPhone, Android or other smart phone or mobile device, you&#8217;ll want some apps to make your road trip safer and more fun.<br \/>\nWe use iPhones and an iPad so the following apps are from the iTunes Store. Some of these or similar apps may be available for Android or other mobile device.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Road Safety:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022Washington State Dept. of Transportation (WSDOT) Free<br \/>\n\u2022AAA Roadside Free<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trip planning:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022AAA TripTik Mobile Free<br \/>\n\u2022TripDoc-Travel Planner and Organizer $2.99<br \/>\n\u2022Co-pilot Live $9.99 for iPhone app (we use it on the iPad.) Our favorite navigation tool. It takes some learning to get around in. So far it has all we need. You can upgrade to HD for iPhone or for iPad and pay for premium subscriptions. $4.99-$29.99. This app is a battery sucker. We plug a power adapter into the lighter adapter plug in the car.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Road-Trip Games:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022Road-Trip Bingo $0.99<br \/>\n\u2022I Spy $0.99<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now that you&#8217;re in Leavenworth:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022Pension Anna-Where to eat and what to do. And if you&#8217;re staying at <a title=\"Pension Anna Hotel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pensionanna.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pension Anna<\/a> complementary use of an iPhone is part of their hospitality service.<br \/>\n\u2022Yelp Free. Need to find services locally? Yelp lists local businesses.<br \/>\n\u2022UrbanSpoon Free. Find local restaurants, read reviews.<br \/>\n\u2022foursquare Free. Meet up with locals, get tips and hints. Share your recommendations with future travelers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Share your trip:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022Instagram Free. Shoot and share: who, what, where<br \/>\n\u2022Hipstamatic $1.99. Shoot and share cool photos with friends and on social media.<br \/>\n\u2022Postagram Postcards Free app. $0.99 in-app purchase per postcard sent.<\/p>\n<p>How about you? What are your favorite apps for your iPhone, iPad or other smart phones? Looking for great places to practice your iPhonography and play with some of those great photo apps? Check the <a title=\"What Hath God Wrought?\" href=\"single-blog.php?name=WPwhat-hath-god-wrought&amp;title=What%20Hath%20God%20Wrought\" \">last blog entry<\/a> for inspiration and places to do some shutter snapping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;you&#8217;ll want some apps to make your road trip safer and more fun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-road-trip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bH3a-fF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"https:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}