The Simple Guide
Get to know your
Travel Journal
Everything the Journal can do, one easy step at a time. There’s no rush and no test at the end — and nothing you tap can break anything, so have a play as you go.
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Start Here
Choose your own adventure
Read the guide top to bottom like a good book; or tap any line below and jump straight to the bit you need.
Finding places
First Steps
So, what is the Journal?
Your own private diary of your motorhome trips — one tidy home for everything worth remembering.
Where you stayed
Campsites, aires and stopovers, with photos and notes.
What you did
Places you visited, meals out, people you met.
Your journeys
The drives between stops, mile by mile.
Your fuel
Fill-ups logged, so costs never creep up on you.
There’s also the Community Map: a shared map of campsites and stopovers added by you and thousands of fellow Funsters, with honest reviews to help everyone find the good spots.
The Journal lives at motorhomefun.co.uk/journal
It’s included free with your MotorhomeFun membership, and your journal is private to you unless you choose to share it.
On Your Phone
Make it feel like a real app
No app store, nothing to download. In about ten seconds you can put the Journal on your home screen, where it opens with a single tap; just like any other app.
iPhone & iPad
Android
Signing in
The Journal is for MotorhomeFun members. The first time you visit, create your account using the same email address and password you use for the forum. After that, it’s just:
Getting Around
Four buttons, that’s all
Everything lives behind four buttons along the bottom of the screen. Wherever you wander, you’re one tap from home:
Tours
Your home page and all your trips.
Community
The shared Community Map of sites.
Docs
Handy documents, with expiry reminders for the important ones.
Account
Your settings — and your travel Stats.
Your home page
You land on Tours whenever you open the app: a friendly greeting, three boxes with your running totals — Tours, Nights and Miles — then a search box and your list of tours.
⛽ Quick fill-up: Spot the little fuel pump in the top-right corner? Tap it any time to log a fill-up in seconds — details in Logging your fuel.
On Tour
Your first Tour
A Tour is one trip, and everything from that trip lives inside it: every campsite, every drive, every diary entry. Your very first tour is already made for you — rename it and change its photo to anything you like. “Summer in Scotland”, “Our trip to Germany”… it’s your story.
Starting a new Tour
💰 Tour costs: Five boxes at the top of each tour quietly total what the trip is costing you. Rather not know? You can switch them off and holiday in blissful ignorance.
On Tour
Adding a campsite or stopover
Pitched up, kettle on? Open the Tour you’re on and add tonight’s stop — it takes a minute or two.
Adding tonight’s stop
Adding photos
Photos are what make your journal come alive.
Later on, tap any photo to open the full-screen gallery, then swipe left and right to flick through the lot.
On Tour
More than campsites
A trip is more than where you parked. Inside every Tour there are places for the rest of it:
Travel days
Record a drive: where from, where to, how many miles.
Diary
Write about your day — private to you.
Attractions
The places you visited.
Food & drink
Pubs and meals out worth remembering.
People
Folk you met along the way.
They all work the same way: open your Tour, find the section, tap its Add button, fill in the details and tap Save. Everything files itself by date, so your Tour reads like a story from start to finish.
👀 Looking back: Tap any saved entry and you get a tidy card of the details, not a form full of boxes. Spotted something to change? Tap Edit.
On Tour
Logging your fuel
A few seconds at the pump saves head-scratching later — and your Stats do all the sums.
At the pump
💷 Filling up abroad: Tap the little calculator icon, pop in today’s exchange rate and what you paid, and the Journal turns it into British pounds for you.
Finding Places
One map, thousands of good spots
Tap Community at the bottom of the screen and up comes a map covered in coloured pins — campsites and stopovers added by Funsters just like you. Drag with one finger to move about; pinch with two to zoom.
The buttons along the bottom of the map:
Compass
Jump to sites near you.
List
See the sites in view as a list.
Magnifying glass
Search and filter the map.
Heart
Your favourite sites.
Plus
Add a new site to the map.
Info
The map key — what each pin colour means.
Having a look at a site
Searching for a place
Finding Places
Free nights and firm favourites
The map works harder when you tell it what you’re after.
Free sites only
Plenty of Funsters love a free stopover. To see only the free spots:
Favourites
Found somewhere you love?
Finding Places
Put a great spot on the map
Found somewhere lovely that isn’t on the map yet? Add it; and every Funster who comes after you says thank you.
Adding a site
Copy a site into your Tour
Spotted somewhere you plan to visit? Open the site, tap Add to my tour and choose which Tour. It’s added as a planned stop — your own private copy to edit as you like.
Leave a review
Open a site, tap Write a review, give it stars and a few honest words, then tap Post review. Future Funsters will thank you.
Back Home
When the wheels stop turning
The tour ends; the journal doesn’t. Here’s what all that recording was for.
Share your Tour
Open the Tour and tap Share at the top. Choose Create a link for a read-only web link to send to family and friends, or PDF for a booklet of the whole trip; a lovely keepsake. Your private diary stays private either way.
Your stats
Open Account and tap Stats to watch the numbers build themselves; tours, nights away, miles driven, fuel costs and more. No adding up required.
Your account
Tap Account to update your name and email, back up your data, find your Stats, and open your Big Master Map — everywhere you’ve ever stayed, across every tour, on one glorious map.
Good to Know
Handy tips
Four small things that make the Journal feel effortless.
It works offline
No signal at the back of beyond? Carry on. Notes and photos save on your phone and sync when you’re back online.
Seeing an old version?
After an update, close and reopen the app, or pull down to refresh. If a “tap to refresh” message pops up, tap it.
Nothing is lost
Editing or deleting one entry never touches the rest of your Tour — and your journal stays safe even if the van sleeps all winter.
Take your time
Everything saves as you go and there’s no wrong way to use it. Your journal, your rules.
You’re all set
Happy travels — and happy journalling!
Your Journal is ready whenever you are, free with your MotorhomeFun subscription. And if you ever get stuck, just ask on the forum — Funsters are a friendly bunch.
James Brown BEM is the founder of MotorhomeFun (est. 2007), the UK’s largest motorhome community, and a retired close-protection specialist. He has been motorhoming for over 35 years and is the author of The Motorhome Buyer’s Guide, The Motorhome Security Handbook, and The Bodyguard’s Bible. When he isn’t on the road, he’s at home on the Lincolnshire coast.