It's an East Coast weather night!

Today we were able to sit outside until 8pm (and the son and hubby are still out there!) It's a balmy 75+ degrees, which is not entirely typical for our backyard. It reminds me of the weather at our family's place in NJ, though, which we just returned from. The weather in NJ prompted me to search for a better iphone weather app. I am opposed to spending money on apps, as a rule, so I settled on the free version of the Weather Channel App.

I've setup 5 preferred locations so far. The app lets me check temp, relative humidity, and the all important "feels like" temp. My favorite pages other than current weather are the weather by hour and the Map view. The Map view helped me convince hubby to break camp early last Sunday rather than stay in a rainy tent for 3 hours only to still be breaking camp in the rain! This was after the "weather by hour" view had encouraged him to leave the campground movie showing of Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in time to get the rain fly up and therefore prevent a major soggy disaster.

I don't know what the pay Weather Channel app would give us that the free one doesn't. For now, I'm just a huge fan of Weather Channel lite!

How I spent my summer vacation!

My son, husband and I just got back from a month of travel. I got a new iphone 3GS before we left, and was THRILLED by the improved speed of 3G over my original Edge Network iphone. Pages that used to take the time it takes to sing the National Anthem to load now zip open! My location on Maps is way more accurate. My 5-year old can stay occupied for hours making videos. I'm in love...

I'm a little OCD when it comes to traveling (where can I fill up the gas tank, is that restaurant really as good as it looks from the outside - WHERE can I get my morning Starbucks fix?) My next few posts will cover the apps I loved and relied on to survive 2 road trips from Marin to the Sierras and one 10-day journey from New Jersey to Maine and back. Who knows whether anyone else will enjoy reading about this as much as I enjoyed experiencing it, but you never know until you try.

For now, though, I'm signing off to referee a battle over train tracks and trains between my son and his best friend...