How to keep a Trip Journal
The Trip Journal turns your itinerary into a travelogue you build as you travel. For each campground stay and attraction on your trip, you add photos and a note, then post it so friends and family following your trip can see it. This guide covers creating and posting journal entries. To let people follow along, see Share your journal and get email updates.
Find the Trip Journal
Open one of your saved trips and scroll to the Trip Journal section, below the trip summary. You'll see a card for each place on your trip — every overnight campground and each attraction you've added. (Trips with no overnight stops don't show a journal.)
Each card shows the day, whether it's a Stay or an Attraction, and the place name from your itinerary.
Add photos and a note
For each place:
- Write a note in the "How was this stop?" field — up to 2,000 characters. It saves on its own when you click away, so there's no save button.
- Choose Add photos to upload images (JPEG, PNG, or WebP). You can add up to 5 photos per place, each up to 10 MB. To remove one, hover over it and click the ✕.
Notes and photos are yours as a draft until you post them — nobody sees them yet.
Post an entry to your followers
When a place has a photo or a note, a Post to followers button appears. Posting makes that entry visible on your trip's share link.
- You can post a stop once you've left it — after your departure day for an overnight campground, or the same day for a day-visit attraction. This keeps you from broadcasting exactly where you are right now. If you try too early, RV Roost tells you when you'll be able to post it.
- After posting, the entry shows ✓ Posted, and the header keeps a running count like "3/7 posted."
- Posting also sends an update to anyone following your trip by email — see Share your journal and get email updates.
Turn a memory into a public review
Once an entry is posted, you can publish it as a public review of that campground or attraction to help other RVers. See Publish a journal entry as a review.