Go on practice roadtrips using Furkot for research/planning. When using iOverlander, leave no trace, provide useful updates, and don’t blow up someone’s spot.
Track activities and feed them into a wandrer.earth account to make a map of every place you’ve done something.
Plug a Bouncie tracker into the car to record the route to highlight (daily?) with a sharpie, a laminated trucker’s atlas that lives in the car. Bonus: the atlas works when cell service isn’t available.
Keep a foldable bladder with a day’s worth of drinking and washing water in the car.
National parks are neat. Don’t sleep on state parks. Tourists are universally switched on at 10 am. Trailheads can become saturated at 6 am.
Take a few photos that can go on the wall and give you joy, take a few to show a day in the life. Truthfully, no one cares about your trip, photos, or stories as much as you do so don’t get FOMO from not taking enough photos. Just be there. Journal daily.
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