From TravBuddy.com
I love to travel and I love to keep track of where I've been. For the longest time, I've recorded my State-side travels on a Dover stick-on map (see below) that allows you to paste a sticky of each state onto an outline map of the United States, but this has been limited, and I've been searching for something that would allow me to do this for the world.
By sheer good luck, I came across the TravBuddy.com It's very easy to work with. First, you scroll down until you get to website that allows you to do virtually what I had been doing on paper for years.
Travel Maps and Games in the right-hand column of the site, which will have the following icon underneath it.
Clicking on this icon brings you to a long list of countries, which are broken down into states, provinces and territories for the United States, Australia, and Canada. You can click off the places where you've been, or, in the case of the above countries and countries in Europe, simply choose to have the entire land mass or country colored in, if you have visited any part of it.
Once you've selected all of the places you've been, you then click on "Create Your Travel Map" in the yellow rectangle at the bottom of the page and a personalized map like the one that introduced this blog will appear for you. It's free, it's easy, and you can even link it to Facebook.
So how does TravBuddy make its money? Although the site is set up as an information exchange among other travelers, its creators seem to be very eager to have you share your "future travel plans" on the site. I can only imagine that this is so their advertisers can begin peppering you with emails about places to stay, things to do, restaurants, flights, car rentals, etc., although I can't really say for sure.
All in all, it looks like a fun, useful site, which also has the coolest travel app running!
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