Planning the Ultimate Road Trip

Alrighty let’s talk about planning! Not always our strong suit, we’ll be the first to admit BUT we do have a solid set of steps to perfectly planning a road trip.

We would also used these steps on our lap if we needed to plan ahead for busy periods, or if we found ourselves in a really unfamiliar part of the country.

We are often asked how we plan our routes and what to see along the way, and we use three apps for pretty much all our planning- Instagram, Wikicamps and Google Maps.

So we’ll start with Instagram. What we have been doing over the years is using the save feature on other peoples posts- any time we see a photo of a beautiful location or somewhere we’d like to visit one day we save the post and sort into an album.

We have albums created for every region in Australia.

If you don’t get many bucket list worthy locations popping up on your homepage you can always utilise the search option.

We have honestly lost count of all the epic locations we visited on our lap purely because we had previously saved a photo of it on Instagram.

Sometimes we will also check out the tourism website of our destination.

Quite often, these websites will have blogs with a great deal of information, including sample itineraries, the best landmarks to visit and different activities you can participate in.

You can also use Pinterest and personal travel blogs in this stage of planning.

We originally discovered this drive in cinema you can camp at through Instagram!

So now you're starting to get a good idea of what to see and do on your road trip, and what general areas you’re going to be in.

From here we can then head to the Wikicamps app to see what campgrounds are around and if there are any more points of interest.

Once we’ve chosen all of our desired locations, we’ll enter each stop into Google maps.

If you’re anything like us, you’ll have added far too many destinations! But don’t stress, there is an easy way to condense them.

First, start with the must-visit locations. If there are any stops you don’t mind missing, cross them off your list.

If it still seems like there are too many, check the pins that will take you well off course and decide if the location is worth the extra driving time.

Now that we have everything on one big route, we then split up our days based on driving time, et viola! The perfect road trip.