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My Travel Homepage provides travelers with an integrated solution to link their Trip Journals for life. It includes consolidated mapping through the proprietary MyTripJournal IntelliMap system, central guestbook access and a host of other features...
Under MyTripJournal¹s new subscription-based system, travelers can create unlimited new Trip Journals as well as having renewed access to previously closed Journals.
MyTripJournal, named by Forbes as one of the 13 Best Travel Sites on the Web, was developed in 2003 by Vancouver-based world adventurers Dan and Faye Parlow, in concert with software developers Paul Melhus and Dave Vincent.
In addition to the new My Travel Homepage, unique features of the MyTripJournal system include its highly customized IntelliMap system, the ability to post unlimited personal videos, to store thousands of print-quality photos and to receive a full archive on CD or DVD.
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| John Hamilton, San Francisco, CA Jun 1, 2007 |
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eb buzz: Folks at home can keep up with trip
By Vani Rangachar, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 18, 2007
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Time was when you traveled, your loved ones would have to wait for postcards (which arrived home after you did) and photos when you returned. With MyTripJournal.com, you can take family and friends along, at least vicariously, on your own trip website.
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| Vani Rangachar, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA Apr 18, 2007 |
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Personal Travel Journals - www.MyTripJournal.com
A dynamic and interactive site with a clean, modern style. Setting up your own site is straightforward, with prompts all the way. The comprehensive mapping system allows users to load maps of their intended travel regions, and once undeway, you plot you travels as you go, leaving a trail behind on the map. Photos can be uploaded and journal entries updated easily by logging into your own site, which has a free 45 day trial, perfect for short journeys. Annual standard membership, at $75 a year allows members unlimited journal entries and 60 photo uploads per month. Friends and family contacts are loaded into your guest book. and automatically notified each time you post an update. The guest book allows visitors to leave a message, which can be kept private or published on your site. Travel agents have been known to set up this site for their clients, and incorporate it into a holiday package.
Best Thing About it: Free 45-day trial. No ads or popups
Rating: Huge Thumbs Up
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| Webwatch, Australian Traveller May 1, 2006 |
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A Vancouver-based Internet company that allows travellers to post online blogs in some of the world's most remote locations has been listed by Forbes magazine as one of the best travel websites anywhere.
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| Brian Morton, Vancouver Sun Apr 15, 2006 |
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Forbes.com names MyTripJournal as one of 13 best travel websites - "We like MyTripJournal.com for its colorful and easy-to-use features like "Find a Friend’s Web Site" and the customizable world map."
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| Sophia Banay, Forbes.com Mar 30, 2006 |
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Once upon a time, only millionaires visited Paris for the weekend.
These days, anyone with a credit card and Internet access can take off for a three-day jaunt to Europe. They can bid for a cheap hotel room, book a rental car and pinpoint and secure the last window seat left on a commercial flight--all the day before leaving. In comparison, flying the Concorde seems almost archaic.
The world is more accessible than ever, and that is good news for travel consumers. But the real success story concerns the Internet companies that make online travel services available to the public.
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| Sophia Banay, Forbes.com Mar 30, 2006 |
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Vancouver, Canada – MyTripJournal evolved from a real trip taken by founding members Faye and Dan Parlow and their two children, Adrian and Robin from September through December, 2001.
Travel junkies by nature, Dan and Faye had spent years of their lives on the road, backpacking through more than 30 countries on 6 continents.
They had travelled extensively with their kids, albeit on shorter vacations to exotic locales such as Morocco, Costa Rica and Malaysia. They were seasoned travellers, accustomed to unusual food and accommodation, lifestyles and standards of living. However, they had never been exposed to the joys and challenges of long-term travel. In 2001, they decided to introduce their children to life on the road.
Despite having spent extensive periods of time in Asia, China had eluded them due to political issues and timing. However, in the summer of 2001, everything looked calm and stable and there seemed no reasons not to rent out their house; leave their jobs and head for China and Thailand for 4 months.
Both were interested in an alternative method of communication during this trip. During their longest trip in 1989-90, Dan and Faye had communicated with family and friends extensively by mail, but often waited months to pick-up and receive mail. Over the ensuing decade, they had experimented with e-mail as a means of staying in touch while on vacation but wanted something more permanent and easily accessible for larger numbers of people.
Faye was inspired by the website for the replica of Earnest Shackleton's ship, The Endurance, which she had visited with the boys when it stopped in Vancouver. Working mates on The Endurance posted their journals detailing what it was like to be a mate on a tall ship crossing the ocean. She was struck by the immediacy of the contact and by the incredible potential to reach an audience.
Faye sought out software entrepreneurs and friends, Dave Vincent and Paul Melhus of GroupInfoWeb.com, a software solutions company specializing in communication solutions for small groups, to come up with a similar vehicle to record their family's journey. Neither Dan nor Faye had any specialized computer knowledge, nor were they planning to take any technology with them, so the website had to be extremely easy to use and be accessible from very basic hardware.
The result was a dynamic and interactive personal travel website that integrated mapping and journaling functions. Named Parlow China Trip, it was the pioneer website for MyTripJournal.
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| Stephen Elmy, WorldTravelNews.info Mar 15, 2006 |
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The only thing more predictable than a travel guide are personal blogs about trips to over-touristed sites such as the Eiffel Tower or Big Ben.
Thankfully, this site has created a "best of" list that spotlights its most interesting on-line trip diaries, searchable by region. Read bloggers' tales of temple visits in Lebanon, drives on Kenyan back roads -- or create your own blog for a chance at Web glory.
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| Diana Pereira, Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada Feb 18, 2006 |
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MyTripJournal.com features a convenient itinerary function that is linked to a map that shows the route taken. Unlike the other sites, however, MyTripJournal is free only for a 45-day trial, after which the user must pay $59 for a year, which includes storage of up to 60 photos a month. It also offer a more expensive version for $89 a year that includes unlimited storage as well as a CD that contains all of the photos from the user's site and a static html version of the blog. There are no banner ads or pop-up windows on this site.....
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| Fred Bierman, New York Times Nov 27, 2005 |
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Forget sending postcards back home while on vacation. Specialized Web sites cater to the traveler who wants to create an online journal that includes pictures, maps and more ... try MyTripJournal ... A premium membership gives you unlimited photo storage. However, images cannot be larger than 5 MB. You can password-protect your entire site. You keep the rights to your posts and photos.
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| Kim Komando, CNN Money May 23, 2005 |
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Web logs, or blogs, have become indispensable to travel enthusiasts planning a vacation or seeking a quick escape during their workday. More personal than Fodor's, some travel blogs provide unique, irreverent reviews of lodging, restaurants and sights. Others are more like a diary, inviting readers to join adventures vicariously as writers post from the road. Romantically juicy or richly informative, the following blogs are recommended by USATODAY.com travel writers:
MyTripJournal.com: Feeling inspired? MyTripJournal allows travelers to start free, personalized blogs with maps plotting their journeys, along with e-mail notifications to friends and family when they post updates. Bloggers can have a free site for 45 days and can post as many as 20 photos. Bonus: Bloggers can control who sees their site (so that drunken night in Dublin can remain under wraps). Warning: The basic site is free, but a one-year site is $60, and a premium site is $89.
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| Colleen Clark and Megg Mueller Schulte, USATODAY.com Apr 29, 2005 |
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“My Trip Journal allows travelers to create an online web site, complete with interactive maps that show your travels and the ability to add journal entries and photos.”
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| Roundabout Publications, Lenexa, KS Feb 5, 2005 |
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“Gift suggestions for road-trippers…buy the traveler a year of access to www.MyTripJournal.com, which provides readymade personalized Web pages for posting vacation photos and notes.”
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| Beth Harpaz, Associated Press Nov 28, 2004 |
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“A new travel trend is emerging…a growing number of travelers are using travelers’ online journals, known as travel blogs, to plan their trips.…In Sept. 2004, MyTripJournal.com began letting visitors browse other travellers’ journals…Earlier in 2004, Lonely Planet Publications’ web site began offering a personal-trip-account tool provided by MyTripJournal.com, and launched blogs written by its guidebook authors on assignment.”
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| Jennifer Saranow, The Wall Street Journal Oct 18, 2004 |
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“Travel blogs: They can make the world go round…At least three Web sites—BootsnAll.com, MyTripJournal.com and TravelPod.com—aim squarely at peripatetic travelers, hosting free or low-cost blogs that serve as a cross between electronic postcards and personal journals, complete with digital photos and maps. And unlike group e-mail, travel blogs can be easily archived and accessed long after the suitcases have been unpacked.”
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| Laura Bly, USA Today Mar 11, 2004 |
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Ok, so you're going on your European vacation armed with your digital camera. Everyone wants to hear from you. Your mom wants to keep track of your progress. What do you do? Sit in a cybercafe and write zillions of individual emails to folks in your address book?
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| James Martin, About.com Editor Feb 22, 2004 |
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“If you don’t want to clog your friends’ inboxes with silly pictures of you in scuba gear in Aruba, or waste valuable Himalayan-trekking time trying to resend e-mails, use… mytripjournal.com: A top-notch site that boasts really cool maps and will automatically notify your friends and family when you update your site.”
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| Malcolm Beith, Newsweek Jan 19, 2004 |
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“MyTripJournal.com is a really cool site that allows you to plan a trip and plot your destinations on a map. You may archive stories and pictures from your travels so those not with you can still follow in the fun! Once you return home you can receive a copy of your entire trip on a CD that you can share with everyone. Setup is simple and your new site will be up and running in less than 5 minutes.” ~ www.travelsite.com
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| Travelsite.com, Williamston, MI Jan 14, 2003 |
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