I started this blog back in August 2011 as a way of tracking our holidays and, later, our campervan trips. It's been fun looking back at where we visited and what we did. In fact, my first ever post was a day trip to Anglesey. Little did we know that six years later we would move to the island on retirement.
Over time though, particularly on longer trips, it's been a bit of a chore updating the blog; trying to write something interesting (not sure I succeeded there!), managing and uploading photos, adding all the hyper links etc. Although it's possible to do this on my phone, it was best on a laptop.
During our trip to Scotland, the EcoFlow power bank died....again. It was a replacement one after the first stopped charging on 12V DC, which is ideal when driving. As a result I was unable to charge the laptop and therefore unable to update the blog beyond the last post on 22 June. I'm battling with EcoFlow to sort out the problem as the unit is still under warranty and, in the meantime, have bought a smaller (and cheaper) Bluetti power bank. I won't be buying EcoFLow products again!
When I realised updating the blog this trip was going to be difficult, I looked around for alternatives. I'd previously looked at the Polar Steps app, but at that time decided to carry on with the blog. However, I downloaded it, created an account and had a go. I actually like it as an alternative to the blog. I can create a trip (eg Scotland 2026) with steps (places we stopped overnight or visited), write a short paragraph about the day and quickly upload some photos. It takes about 10 minutes on my phone and I've enjoyed using it. You can access my Scotland 2026 trip by clicking on this link.
I will still be able to keep a record of all the places we stayed or visited (with Lat/Long) as I keep a list per trip in Google Keep and then upload this to Google Drive to refer back to.
So that's it for this blog. I'll keep it live so I can refer back at past trips if I need to, but this is probably the 'Last Post'.
If you've followed my posts - and actually read them - well done! If you want to follow our future trips on Polar Steps, you can click on this link.