TravelPod News

According to a friend of journalist, Ben Groundwater, some people who call themselves backpackers are just lazy people, going around, getting stoned and drunk in various locales. In short, wasting precious time. Does this sound like you?

Groundwater hypothesizes that there are three kinds of travelers, doers, watchers and wanderers. The stereotypical “lazy” backpacker presumably fits into the “watcher” or perhaps the “wanderer” category, but definitely not the “doer” category.

Many Travelpodders can’t decide how to categorize themselves, and there is a whole sub-discussion on the definition of “doing” a place.

Where do you fit in? Join the discussion in the forums!

Louise Brown

TravelPod Community Manager

Which one couldn’t you wait to leave? What makes a bad airport suck so hard?

One of our forum members says Miami’s airport is constantly under construction, another says Heathrow’s new Terminal 5 is “a joke” and he also hates the plastic chairs at Frankfurt Hahn.

There’s also the danger factor. There’s a myriad of dangerous airport runways around the world. Saba, in the Caribbean has the shortest in the world, would that scare you away from visiting the airport? What say you?

See you in the forums,

Louise Brown

TravelPod Community Manager

Did you know, you can put your new blogs on your MySpace page, just like on Facebook? I just tried it out for the first time today, and I was really impressed. You can display your travel map on your MySpace homepage and all your blog entries are just a click away! Your friends can display your entire trip route or narrow it down to view just one of your blogs.

Check it out on my homepage for yourself, then add the travel blog application to your own homepage and watch as your blog hits rise!

Louise Brown

TravelPod Community Manager

Elisabeth Osmeloski of SearchEngineWatch has written recently that TravelPod’s addictive gaming creation, Traveler IQ, is continually “blowing away the competition” on Facebook. Read it for yourself:

“There’s little doubt that travel lends itself well to the most popular social networking tools on the Web. As I write this, there are 174 travel applications on Facebook, but of those, it seems like only two have actually been able to prove themselves. The two most popular examples – TripAdvisor’s Cities I’ve Visited (with more than 60,000 daily users) and TravelPod’s Traveler IQ (with more than 20,000 daily users) – both blow away the competition. No other apps even come close.”