 When I first started full-time on the road I thought that I could just go into some camping app and choose a boondocking spot and drive out there And everything was going to be just perfect You find out that that is not the way it goes more often than not You have to hustle a little bit and look around and sometimes the spot that you thought you were going to does not work out at All it's five o'clock at night. The Sun is starting to go down and you don't have a backup So today as promised I'm going to show you how I took all of the resources from Sunday's video And I'm going to integrate them to show you how I plan a route on my phone So when I'm going from one place to another, I know that no matter what happens. I'm going to be just fine on my route Hey, everybody, it's Robin with creativity RV. Sorry if the camera's a little jiggly. It's windy out today So my RV is shaken But you might have seen Sunday that I did a COVID camping 10 tips to plan your trip video Where I gave you a bunch of resources for camping the links for all of that are on my blog at creativity RV comm But you might wonder how to put all that together So I'm going to show you what I actually do every time I travel on my phone. I Have an Android phone. Of course if you have an Apple product You're gonna be a little bit different than me, but you should be able to use just what I'm doing here Okay, here are my camping apps. This is actually what I use. You can see I have highway weather That tells me what the weather is going to be like in route on my trip So if I need to adjust because of weather, I can easily RV parkie is my favorite app I'll show you why in a second harvest house. You guys know I'm a big believer in harvest house 79 bucks a year you get access to a bunch of farms and wineries and museums You can stay out overnight for free. Of course, you want to go on and support the business Free campsites net a lot of people use I use it a little bit differently. I'll show you how See right here where this one says RV parks caravan parking, but it doesn't look like an app It's got a little Google icon That's because this is Campendium to my knowledge Campendium does not have an app per se for Android So what I do is if I find a website I like like I have here up in the upper right hand corner You hit those three dots and you say add to home screen and you add it and it creates a little icon Just like that and then I put the icon in this folder and it makes like a searchable app for me I did the same thing with casino camper. This is reserve America camping trucker path I'll show you guys that in a second national parks the US public lands app Same thing with the national forest for searchable spots and BLM. I created apps for that in here Same with national parks Google Earth coverage question mark mountain directory Dumb stations all stays. So those are my go-to apps now I'm going to go ahead and build out all of the potential stops on a map I don't actually usually do this. I'm just doing it to show you guys how you can do it I usually do look though and know in my head what's coming up every four hours or so So here is Salt Lake City two sisters and by the way, if you guys are wondering what all these blue dots are In Google Maps, you can turn on something called my trip so far and I have to say I did it the first like a year I was on the road. These are all places. I stopped and I stopped doing it Anyway, you can see the blue line here that goes from Salt Lake to Oregon if you go the fastest way It's 10 hours and 27 minutes. Of course, you can choose the slow way You can also go up and say route options and avoid the highways But if you avoid highways You don't have as much access to say rest areas, trek stops Walmart's, Cracker Brails, places like that. So if you're wanting to get somewhere and just stop overnight to rest in your route then Doing the highways is probably a better thing. I'm going to go ahead and choose the route that takes about 10 and a half hours Now I like to drive about four-hour stretches And sometimes I get to a place and I love it so much. I stay before I move on but in my case I probably would get to about let's say Twin Falls So I'm going to go out of Google and go to one of my other apps to find places around Twin Falls The first app I go to every time is highway weather I've told you guys about this one before but it helps me decide when to leave Because weather can change really rapidly. So you can see I have Salt Lake City to sisters here You say search You can ask it if you leave now what the weather is going to be and also if you leave in a few days for me I'm always looking for wind. So that's the same route. I have now, right? The good thing about This app is that let's say you drive a few hours. You stop and recheck it I do it every time because it will update the map and then you know I need to stay here for another day or I need to drive another two hours because I'm going to miss this storm if I do that. So highway weather is my go-to number one first thing Now I'm going to go into RV Parkie, which is my personal favorite go-to app. I'm going to show you why let's put in Twin Falls here It's going to show a bunch of different options based on your filters now my filters are not going to have RV parks normally, but you can't put them in there. Oh See this is why I use RV Parkie because look at these Danger signs, right? I know that when I go through Twin Falls, I don't want to take this road Because my RV is 13 feet 11 inches high and I would rip the top off right here We know that we're going to have a Walmart that allows overnight parking but always call a loves loves usually has RV overnight parking but call a Pilot so that might be good also an arrest area So now you see that when I leave Salt Lake City, I have a place to stop right there in Twin Falls I can do the same thing with the rest area or an RV park or a truck stop something like that I'm going to say done and now You can see I would be able to get to that Walmart in three hours So if you're getting tired and you're driving you know that you have a place to go in three hours So I'm going to go back to my apps here and pop down to trucker path Because remember we had all those options there the rest areas lots of truck stops here It is Twin Falls, Idaho This is what's great about trucker path and how it helps us be good citizens with the truckers on the road You can see here in Twin Falls. There is a flying J and There's a Valley Country Store see right here where it says drivers are reported. There are some spaces 13 hours ago Literally it gives you up-to-date information if you go to the other one There's some spaces sometimes it will say many sometimes that will say none now if you actually click on this It's going to tell you that this little country store only has 18 spaces. It does allow overnight parking. It has Wi-Fi, right? But let's look at the other one. It also tells you the gas prices by the way So you don't need to like have gas buddy or another app. Okay? This flying J has 80 spaces overnight parking showers atm It will tell you if these spaces have laundry some of them have hundreds of parking spaces. So obviously if There's 80 spaces and it says it's almost full and there's one five miles down the road that has 120 spaces And there's tons of spots you obviously want to head towards the one that's empty so that you can leave spaces for the truckers Go over to free campsites net You put in twin falls Now my settings are for pay and free campgrounds that pay your red the free are green Okay, this one's interesting. Look, it's right off the highway Bell Rapid Sportsman Access So what I look at here is cell signal and look at the great pictures of the road. Yes good road Okay yep and People give the length of their vehicle. So if you have a bigger rig like me You can see if it will fit here. So look at all of these options on Free campsites net This is a good resource There are usually places right off the highway But keep in mind when you go to boondock at free places the closer you are to a town The more likely you are to see things like bullets graffiti broken glass. I Try to avoid those places So if you roll in and you see some of that stuff You know you have other options because you've got these other campsites and you also have some of the overnight parking I Went ahead and added that free campsite to our route And now I'm going to look around mountain home Which is up the route a little bit and I'm going to do that in Campendium Now one thing I really like Campendium for is they have great dump station information I find that it's better than like the sanny dumps app. So if you go into the filters You can make sure that they're giving you information on the dump stations Here we are in our search in Campendium around mountain home. Look, these are dump stations Right, so I will add that to my route if I need to and Let's see here state parks Free camping and paid camping and look at all of the national forest camping up here a Lot of this is completely free. Oh Look, it's look at that one arrow rock reserve dispersed camping Look at that. See just doing this with you guys. It makes me want to go see all these places This is free This is free, but you know what? It's a little bit off my route So I probably won't go to that one but if you wanted to you could add it to your route and then you know up in town here you have other services Okay, this one's a little bit more my speed. There's the main highway Bill Rapids Sportsman's Access. Let's take a look at that. Look how pretty that is It's totally free somebody was there in a 48 foot trailer and Okay cell signal, so I'm going to go ahead and add that to our map So so far after we left Salt Lake within Four hours, basically we have three places to stay Okay further up on my route Near Ontario. There was a lot of rest areas trek stops walmarts, but you know what by that point of my trip I probably want to stay somewhere natural maybe for a little bit longer So I went into free campsites net and I found just off of highway 84 The Bully Creek Reservoir. You're going to see that some people left some reviews here I mean gosh look at those pictures. It's great But maybe I don't want to go Where everybody else goes Free campsites net is great, but then everybody who searches in that area thinks these are the only spots What I do to look at the roads and to look at other spots is I'll take this review I'm going to go over into google earth And put in the GPS for that location that they were talking about now. This is perfect. See all these roads That is probably all camping. We're going to check on another app in a second But let's look so what you want to look for when you're finding dispersed camping Is you can't stay on the road itself, right? And these roads look great. What you want to do is you want to find Like a little vein that goes off of that like right here You want to find a little vein that goes off the road, right? Oh look, there's a camper So I don't have to be just in the spot that somebody else talked about which was over here I can be Over here, right But I want to make sure that that's not somebody's property So then I go back out of there And I go to The us public lands app. I think it's seven bucks. They have it for android and ios Okay, it's going to zoom in And you know really quick before we look at that one spot This is why I like this app and for everyone that thinks there's not enough camping on public land for everybody Look at this. This is all public land a lot of this is available for camping Not as much on the east coast but on the west coast there is And in this app, they color coded so you can see blm national forest all that, right? Okay, but let's look at our spot So this is blm land. Let's switch to satellite You can see that that is all on blm land. So I know I'm safe Now let's say you see you're on public land. You see some good roads. You want to check out It's close to the services you need but you need a cell signal and you don't know I go into coverage question mark The cool thing about this app is you can choose your carrier. So here's Verizon Any place that you see red if you have Verizon should be good, you know, if you're in the mountains, just remember It's not always totally accurate because something could be blocking the signal, but there's Verizon Let's say you want to see AT&T You can see how much AT&T there is So if I'm going to be staying at a spot for a longer period of time And I want to make sure that I'm going to have a signal there. I use coverage question mark So now you guys can see on our map between Salt Lake and About six hours out of driving. We have one two three four locations. We could have added a lot more So you guys get the idea you take your own camping style into account. Do you like state parks? Do you like pay campgrounds? Do you like RV parks? Do you want to go totally boondocking all the way? You can find dump stations water The prices of things and have three or four backups in that Geography that you know if one doesn't work out another one will you don't have to worry that when you get out to your spot If it's not level, it's a little sketchy Or the road is washed out or the weather has changed That you won't have a place to go You just have to be able to integrate all this stuff But boy, don't you want to go camping now? But you can take it fast. You can take it slow. It's completely up to you. I hope you guys found this helpful Again, the links for all of these resources are actually in my blog post at creativity rv.com Including all of the apps. I hope to see you all out on the road soon or just doing something that you love Until then everybody have happy travels and be free