I agree - everything in the travel space is crap. Whether it's because it's hard to monetize, or because there's no archetypal traveler making it hard to cater to any particular audience ... I don't know. It's a tough nut to crack.
It's not going to help you plan but if you'd like to blog about your road trip when you're on the road, take a look at my attempt to build a "micro blogging" website. Each day, you're only allowed to write 250 characters and attach a single photo:
It's free to use, feedback welcome. I wrote the site for my little road trip because I was so unhappy with everything else out there. The idea being that a character and photo limit forced you to be concise (much appreciated by friends and family), making it easier to maintain and look back on. Here's our trip (we were lucky enough to get some air time on the BBC world news):
just signed up, i'll give it a shot for my upcoming trip, few points from the sign up process:
- Dates seem to be American Format (this is fine but at least indicate it in the placeholder text)
- I have no idea what a marker is, perhaps explain it or even let people know it can be blank!
It's not going to help you plan but if you'd like to blog about your road trip when you're on the road, take a look at my attempt to build a "micro blogging" website. Each day, you're only allowed to write 250 characters and attach a single photo:
http://www.trott.in/
It's free to use, feedback welcome. I wrote the site for my little road trip because I was so unhappy with everything else out there. The idea being that a character and photo limit forced you to be concise (much appreciated by friends and family), making it easier to maintain and look back on. Here's our trip (we were lucky enough to get some air time on the BBC world news):
http://www.trott.in/trips/unomas-all-the-way-down