With all of the user-generated websites available these days, it’s easy to do just about anything online. Well, ImIn.com helps you and your friends and family create a free, private page to organize the details of upcoming trips. You don’t have to worry about the public seeing it as it requires a password in order to gain access. But you can invite friends and family on group excursions or weekend getaways and then check back to see who's going, for example. It’s also handy for sharing photos, discussions and trip documents.
Here’s an interesting website that could be a good tool for people who rent vacation homes during the summer – or any time of year, for that matter. Before putting the down payment on your house rental, log on to RottenNeighbor.com to see what the neighbors have to say about your neighbors or about the area. I looked up my hometown and found neighbors complaining about a bar that they say is loud and disturbing to the residents because drunks keep walking by their houses at all hours of the night. Probably something you don’t want to tolerate while you’re on vacation, but something you can avoid with the right information at your fingertips.
If you watched the Miami Dolphins play my New York Giants for the first NFL regular season game in London last week, you got to see Paul Potts perform England’s national anthem. Though the video below is not travel-related (hence it’s the Bonus Bonus Website of the Week), it’s worth spending three minutes to watch this inspiring man sing like nobody else. I don’t want to give away the ending, but ... let’s just say that Simon Cowell isn’t such a bad guy, after all. Here’s the link.
