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Work Issues

July 5th - "Look Where I Was"- Post Photos to the Web on Flickr, Shutterfly and more.

July 19th - “Tell Everyone About It"- FourSquare/Yelp; post where you are and reviews of what you are doing.

Look Where I Was:

June 23rd - "I Need to Get Away" Research your trip online with Kayak, TripAdvisor, some of the various tour company sites.

"I Need to Get Away" Research your trip online with Kayak, TripAdvisor, some of the various tour company sites.

There are lots of ways to find info on where to go and how to get there. Today we are going to talk about a handful of sites that can help you plan your trip. Everyone has seen the commercials from Orbitz and Travelocity and I want to show you one just so you see what happens there.

Then we will try out Kayak, which is not as well known but compares more of the airline carriers.

Other sites that help you out are Tripadvisor & Seat Guru to help you get started, Tripit to keep you organized, and then some ideas for finding out about interesting things. Middle seat is a blog hosted by the Wall Street Journal that talks about travel issues. Budget Travel, National Geographic, Amtrak, Hints:

In Google type the flight number and you can see the status, on time, etc.

flightstats.com travel.state.gov