Your van's co-pilot. An MCP server that plans a short nearby trip on a given day — somewhere not too far from work, weather-appropriate, with van-friendly parking — so you never have to fiddle with Google Maps while driving. Built by someone who lives in a van and works remotely, tested on real Friday afternoons.
You finish a call at 14:20. You've got two hours before the light goes. You want to park up somewhere with a view, maybe a short walk, ideally no rain, and somewhere the van actually fits. So you open Google Maps, zoom around, pinch a coastline, try to remember which car park had the height barrier, check the weather in a second tab, work out sunset in your head. All while half-driving, half-typing at a red light. It's a rubbish way to decide — and it's how most of us actually do it.
Nomad Max takes the question — "where should I go for a couple of hours from here?" — and gives a direct answer with a parkup recommendation, the weather window, sunset time, and a Maps deeplink you can tap once. No scrolling.
"I've got 90 minutes between calls. Somewhere scenic. Pick a spot for me."
Calls plan_day_trip with your home/work anchor. Three candidates are ranked by weather window + drive time + vibe match.
One short paragraph, TTS-ready. Destination, sunset, weather, parkup notes. No screen.
A single tap opens the directions in Google Maps. You drive. The agent's already thinking about dinner.
Ranked candidates within your drive-time budget, filtered by vibe — beach, forest, mountain, quiet, scenic, or new-to-me.
Open-Meteo hourly forecast per candidate, then the server picks the window with the driest, warmest, least-windy conditions.
Computed locally with a NOAA approximation — no API calls, works offline, correct to the minute.
Height limits, surface type, overnight rules, facilities, and an honest one-line "best for" description.
Haversine distance times a road-factor, at an assumed 60 km/h. Good for ranking — for final ETA, Google Maps takes over.
Parkups with the scenic or new-to-me tag bubble up first when you ask for the longer route.
Nomad Max speaks MCP over stdio. Weather uses Open-Meteo — free, no key — and parkups come from a local fixture today, with iOverlander / Park4Night / Google Places provider stubs ready to wire up. Register it with your MCP client:
{ "mcpServers": { "nomad-trip-planner": { "command": "node", "args": ["/path/to/mcp-servers/nomad-trip-planner/dist/index.js"], "env": { "NOMAD_WEATHER_PROVIDER": "open-meteo", "NOMAD_PARKUP_PROVIDER": "fixture", "NOMAD_DEFAULT_ANCHOR": "51.4545,-2.5879" } } } }
Then ask your agent: "Plan my Friday — 60 minutes max, somewhere scenic, avoid rain." It fires plan_day_trip, hands you three ranked options with Maps deeplinks, and a short TTS-ready brief.
Designed to be used parked, or with voice — never while typing. The agent outputs one paragraph short enough to read aloud in fifteen seconds, and one link short enough to tap once. The dashboard includes a Read brief aloud button that uses the browser's speech synthesis so you can hear your plan without looking at the screen.