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Cool new Travel app...Polarsteps

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 Anyone who knows me knows I like technology and what it can do for you. While dreaming about my "upcoming trip", still 7 months away, I started researching travel apps. Google Trips was always my go-to, it was wonderful and was discontinued last August. They replaced it with Google Travel, which no app for iPhone exists, and doesn't have the full functionality that Trips had. The perfect app doesn't seem to exist. For me, this perfection would be the ability to plan a route, put in my stops i.e. hotels, sites, or any other place I wish to see along the way. A singular place to capture the trip from planning, to execution and travel, then on to the reminiscing of the beautiful time I had. Another great feature would be the sharing of the trip. I'm traveling with my son, and to see his perspective of the trip, his photos, his stops, or sites he wishes to see. As my search continues for this perfection I have stumbled on Polarsteps .  Polarsteps has both an iPhone a...

What is to come...

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So we have been doing our research. In my previous post , I mentioned wanting something to communicate with each other on the trip. This is where the majority of my research has been, and I found out some disappointing information. I found a couple of states that did not allow headphones, others that would allow them if they were for communication. Based on this site , state motorcycle laws 2018, Colorado is the only one that still has the law that we will be traveling through. So to try and find out what our options are I turned to Sena's website , and they have a half helmet with them built-in. It appears that the Cavalry is being discontinued and the Cavalry Lite is replacing it. I watched a couple of reviews from some reputable sites, Revzilla, and such and the Cavalry worked at speeds to around 50 mph. Anything faster you lost some of the performance in the built-in mic and wind noise took over. Zak has been trying on some of my old gear and looking into what his look will be....