Choose Your Next Vacation Destination with These Travel Guides

You’ve decided to finally use those days off and book a vacation, but the possibilities seem overwhelming. Should you go on a tropical beach getaway? An adventurous Eurotrip? Maybe camping? These helpful online travel guides can steer you in the right direction toward the perfect travel destination.

Fodor’s Travel
Fodor’s Travel is a website for travel buffs, by travel buffs, with a variety of different features to help you plan the ideal getaway. Browse the site by destination if you’ve already got a particular place in mind, or read cruise ship reviews if your heart is set on an all-inclusive cruise. Fodor’s Travel also offers well-curated itineraries like their Escape the City Weekend Getaways to help you choose a trip by your preferences instead of location.

Lonely Planet
Long regarded as the best resource for backpackers and solo travellers, Lonely Planet is a wonderful resource for exploring the world on the cheap. Here you’ll find Japan’s top culinary locations, luxury tents with built-in air conditioning, and other smart advice for globetrotters.

Frommer’s
Frommer’s is a website meant to inspire travellers with gorgeous sites, fascinating articles and helpful deals and news. Their 100 Family Trips section includes vacations that both adults and children will love, and discussion forums organized by location provide advice from fellow adventurers.

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Four Innovative Sports Websites for Thinking Fans

For sports fans, one of the best parts of the web has been the rise in the number of websites producing high-quality content about sports. Whether its by using statistics in inventive ways to offer new takes on our favorite sports to presenting thoughtful, nuanced, and well-written essays on the culture of sports, these sites go beyond simple box scores:

Grantland
Grantland is a website devoted to articles from beloved sports writer Bill Simmons and a team of talented contributors. This website makes predictions, discusses player trades, and examines sports culture as a whole in a smart, literary way.

Hoops Hype
Hoops Hype is a division of USA Today Sports that examines the sport of basketball in a way that you won’t find on any other media outlet. Made specifically for the most devoted basketball enthusiasts, Hoops Hype features long-form articles, player biographies, transactions, and statistics with impressive depth and detail.

Football Outsiders
With the goal of bringing objective analysis to the sport of football, Football Outsiders features new, in-depth statistics that you won’t find anywhere else. The site also releases articles discussing new approaches and challenging conventional ideas in football.

The Wages of Wins Journal
Run by a group of stats-centric sports fans, Wages of Wins attempts to explain how sports work in a new, innovative way. Wages of Wins contributing writers discuss their predictions and opinions with a keen analytical eye.

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