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What should you plan first: the route, the stops, or the charging?
September 7, 2026Fernweh

What should you plan first: the route, the stops, or the charging?

Three orderings give you three different trips. The one we recommend starts with the nights and the stops you refuse to skip, lets the route fall out of them, and fits the charging into the route — not the other way round.

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Who owns the numbers in your trip plan
August 24, 2026Fernweh

Who owns the numbers in your trip plan

Arrival time is the hardest field in trip planning because you never type it — the plan works it out. The interesting question is what happens when what you typed and what it worked out disagree.

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The trip as a first-class object: a Fernweh design note
July 27, 2026Fernweh Team

The trip as a first-class object: a Fernweh design note

A short essay on a deliberate data-modeling decision: what changes when a road trip is a record with identity, not just a list of stops.

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