This is a travel blog for a six month trip my wife (then girlfriend) and I took through South East Asia and South America. I wrote the app during the trip alongside writing the blog. We recorded a lot - not just our experiences and photos, but what we ate and what we spent, too.

In some ways, that blog inspired me to start this site.

Design

• Rails, Postgres, and GraphQL backend
• React frontend
• Hosted on Heroku

Highlights

• We were able to document our trip and share it with people at home

• I still go back to this from time to time

• I kept practising my tech skills despite taking a six month career break

• I got back up to speed with Rails after having not used it for a while

• I got to learn about GraphQL in Rails

Downsides

• A static site generator would probably have been a better fit for this app

• It was a lot of work while effectively on holiday