#polarsteps

Terug thuis na een weekje aan het Gardameer in Italië. Reis en geniet mee via onze Polarsteps! ☺️

https://www.polarsteps.com/Froy/20708481-weekje-italie?s=d3ebfa7c-191a-4277-a887-dcc2c044e1c7&referral=true

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It's been a fascinating day-and-a-half following family through the Polarsteps app as they race through time zones ever farther and farther away.

I'm not sure what's going on but definitely I'm hooked, fascinated, and completely engaged as their trip advances one step at a time from one destination to the next.

This is definitely like days of old (not even my days of old but older) when reports came from remote locations by runner, by train or boat, by telegram, when even basic news stories had to be serialized. And since my family's both on the adventure and documenting it... their reports from the field are necessarily brief.

Perhaps, as they get into the groove of their adventure, they'll be able to detail the story of their travels even more. 🙂

The app includes a satellite map of the world featuring the current trip's destinations connected by dashed lines or straight lines depending on where along their route they are. On the left, photographs along with the text entries for each destination.

It's not Around the World in Eighty Days...

But it sure feels like it.

So we've been back barely a couple weeks and now another branch of the family's traveling internationally between continents. And I can't get enough of it. I'm following along every morning. 😊

It's a huge undertaking, the flight time for which is six hours and change and then eight hours and change. To start.

Once again, I'm behind the times when it comes to apps. Last time it was WhatsApp that most of my family and friends in Holland use. For ten years or more, as it turns out. Enough time's gone by of me not using the app that one of my cousins was visibly perplexed I wasn't on board yet.

Gave me The Look, you know?

This time around, the app's from a Dutch company called Polarsteps that hasn't been around too long. The app's for documenting adventure... which my family's definitely taking.

From my end at this point, I can see an itinerary. I see where they're starting. I see where and when they're traveling. And I'll see it all in real time as they adventure from destination to destination.

Each destination (like the airport and then the next airport) will be documented by photographs and text, essentially a travel blog with real-time map data and comments.

My family's leaving tomorrow so right now their adventure hasn't started yet. Of course it's started. They're just not on the road yet. To this point it's all been preparation.

Now, we're at the tail end of our day so they're at the start of theirs. It's Thursday night in our home, Friday morning in theirs. A lot of the logistics of getting out of their homes is what's going on right now, I'm guessing.

For me, at some point in our tomorrow, Friday, I'm gonna following along on their serialized adventure much like newspaper readers of old.

And see what unfolds.

We go to New Zealand, first Singapore

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