Meetog

Today started with http://www.meetog.com a mini blog like system like with Twitter. 
But it is something I like more as it's easy to incorporate in my normal My Weblog and still have some meaningful entries with enough info.

Rapidweaver

As always playing with blogging and website building systems, now a new site with Rapidweaver.

Final route

Ok, it is set. Some alterations were done, well it is a big change. It will still be “Kirsty” but with a twist and that is going from Aviemore to Aberdeen and taking the night boat North to the Shetland Islands. From the Shetland Islands South to the Orkney Islands and in Thurso taking the Kirsty route again.

To my opinion could be as interesting as New Zealand and my last trip to Alaska. Now hope I will manage to travel in June.

Possible new plan for Scotland only

Route

• Start in Glasgow


• Drymen


• Aviemore


• Thurso


• Possible extension to Orkney Islands


• Gairloch


• Isle of Skye


• Inverraray


• End in Glasgow

 

The plan:

Day 1	Glasgow	Jury's Inn Hotel
Day 2	Glasgow	Jury's Inn Hotel
Day 3	Drymen	Winnock Hotel
Day 4	Drymen	Winnock Hotel
Day 5	Aviemore	Cairgorm Hotel
Day 6	Aviemore	Cairgorm Hotel
Day 7	Thurso	Pentland Hotel
Day 8	Gairloch	Gairloch Highlands Lodge
Day 9	Isle of Skye, Portree	Rosedale Hotel
Day 10	Isle of Skye, Portree	Rosedale Hotel
Day 11	Inveraray	Argyll Hotel

The new iPad

Bad behavior

Yesterday evening I got me a new proposal for Scotland/Ireland from the travel agency, which was almost 10% more expensive. They state because I did not answer them within 48 hours. Be aware they send me the proposal Friday evening. Normal people are away in the weekend or are at least not reading the mail, so I answered them rather early Monday morning on the previous proposal. But as written they say the answer was too late so now it is much more expensive ... I think bad behavior, most probably resulting in not organizing with this company. I will reveal the name in the entry when they do not come up with a better proposal.

New iPhone App: TripJournal

I dl and bought the app yesterday, and it's great!

It is tracking where you are and the export can be to Google Earth with a KMZ file. Meaning the complete tracking and pictures if taken are exported to a file for Google Earth and will show like below example:

 

from what I did this morning. You can even experience yourself by dl the file

 

TripJournal.kmz 

 

and open in Google Earth.

 

Another possibility is direct exporting to Picasa, see example.

 

Check the product at their website.

 

What they write:

 

Trip Journal is the ultimate trip tracking, recording, documenting and sharing solution that is currently available for the iPhone and Android powered smart phones. 

Use Trip Journal to document your vacation experiences and share them with your friends and family. Track your traveling route, record waypoints, photos and notes and attach them to the trip. Visualize the recorded information and follow your position on the map. 

Impress your friends by sending them real time updates from the places that you are visiting, and let them know about what you have been doing lately, share your recorded information as nicely designed KMZ files that can be viewed in Google Earth.