Route 63 Road Trips

There is much to explore and discuss about this new Trip Planner developed by Yahoo! Travel. It is, by far, the best application out there that uses user-supplied content to augment the information supplied by commercial databases about available lodging, restaurants and attractions for planning a trip
. The format and structure of the trip-planning pages make them the easiest to use of any of the trip-planning programs we looked at. It is relatively easy to “drill down” and look at information about a large number of recreational attractions along a route. Yahoo!Travel uses content from travel guides
they have acquired for hundreds of cities around the USA as the source material for this information. In addition, they have created a trip-reporting program that enables users to add photos and journal entries from a trip. Useful when planning a new trip, these published trip reports can be found by using the “Browse Trips” feature. In our test itineraries, we found that creating a private road trip plan seemed to disable some of the functionality, and it took us while to discover what the problem was. The Trip Planner also requires users to log in as Yahoo Group Members in order to use it.

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