FAQ

The questions we get most.

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How is this different from RV LIFE Trip Wizard or Roadtrippers?

RV LIFE Trip Wizard has a deeper campground database — they've been at it for ten years. Roadtrippers has slick general routing. Road Voyage's bet is on the Travel Day organizational model and real-time cascade. Different problems; partly overlapping. We wrap RV-quality data around a planning workflow that actually fits how RVers travel.

Practical difference: edit Day 6's hours; in Roadtrippers you redo the spreadsheet. In Road Voyage, Day 7's start coord shifts, mileage recomputes, and the dates ripple forward — automatically.

Is this a real product I can use today, or just a demo?

It's a working demo — fully playable, complete with the 14-day Tampa → Seattle trip, ~400 hand-curated POIs, the cascade logic, the print-to-PDF, and offline persistence. You can click around, edit Travel Days, watch the cascade, and print the PDF reference.

What it isn't yet: a planner that handles arbitrary US trips with national POI coverage. That's the next phase — and we're building toward it based on the feedback from this demo.

Can I use this offline?

The demo prototype works offline once it loads — it caches the active trip in your browser's local storage. You can read the plan, view all stops, see the day detail, and even add notes — all offline.

The production build (Phase 2) will add a service worker that caches map tiles around the route, native PWA install for adding to home screen, and offline edit-queue that syncs when you reconnect.

Do you have a mobile app?

Today: Road Voyage works on mobile browsers and (in the next phase) installs as a PWA — adds to home screen with a polished icon and full offline support.

Native iOS + Android apps are on the roadmap for the post-MVP phase. Push notifications for weather alerts and day-shift cascades, photo journal with camera integration, and GPS background tracking for "On the Road" mode are all planned.

What kinds of RVs does this work for?

All of them. Class A, Class B (camper van), Class C, fifth-wheel, travel trailer, popup. The setup wizard captures your length, height, weight class, and fuel type — and the routing + camp filtering responds accordingly. A 40-foot Class A gets different POIs than a 19-foot van.

How accurate is the campground data?

In the demo, all 400 POIs are hand-curated for the Tampa → Seattle route. Phone numbers are 555-prefix mock numbers — accurate enough to validate the UX, not real reservations.

Production (Phase 2): real data from Recreation.gov (federal lands, free API), OpenStreetMap (fuel stations, propane, dump stations, scenic stops — free), iOverlander (boondocking — free community export), and partnerships with private campground brands as we hit traction thresholds.

Can my family see and edit the trip too?

Family sharing is in the roadmap. Phase 2 ships read-only public share links (a permanent URL anyone can view). Phase 3 adds full multi-user edit access — up to 5 family members on one trip, all with edit rights, plus public read-only links for friends not on the plan.

For now, in the demo: you can export a trip as JSON and import it on another device manually.

How much will this cost when it launches?

The demo is and will remain free. We don't have a confirmed pricing model for the production product yet — that's something we'll figure out based on what the community tells us.

What we know: there will likely be a free tier with core functionality, and a paid tier for power features (offline mode, family sharing, advanced routing). We're not interested in paywalling the basics. The demo + community-driven product development comes first; pricing comes later.

When will the production version launch?

Honest answer: when the community tells us it's ready. The demo is live now (Spring 2026). Phase 2 — national POI coverage and Mapbox routing — is roughly 6 weeks of engineering work, but we're triggering it based on signals: 500+ newsletter subscribers, 50+ pieces of substantive feedback, 12+ blog posts published.

Realistic timing: 4-9 months from demo launch to production launch. Faster if your feedback comes hard and clear; slower if we're publishing into the void.

How can I help / get involved?

Three ways, all useful:

  • Try the demo and send feedback. Email brad@road.voyage. Even one sentence helps.
  • Subscribe to the newsletter. Helps us hit the trigger thresholds for funding Phase 2.
  • Share with one RVer who'd care. Word of mouth is everything for a niche product like this.
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