Tech Minute: Fun road-tripping apps for a smooth ride
Tech Minute: Fun road-tripping apps for a smooth ride
2012-06-26
a few cheap smartphone apps can go a
long way on the open road besides the
useful basics like a weather app and one
for finding cheap gas at the local
public radio station here are a few that
will make your vacation more fun find
the perfect campsite before nightfall
with the 299 camp finder app after you
plug in your location the app will
search through its database of 16,000
campgrounds and RV parks to make local
suggestions if you've got young kids in
the back seat to entertain the 99 cents
for a bingo app is money well spent we
like Road Trip bingo us for its varying
degrees of difficulty and different
categories of objects to search for like
types of cars or road signs and finally
one of my favorite parts of a road trip
is trying out the local flavor for 299
the classic American diners app will
connect you with all the local dives in
the area get directions hours of
operation and even reviews for more than
1,000 greasy-spoon locations
coast-to-coast happy travels in San
Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for
CBS News
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