"Scoot" is a funny-sounding word. There's Scooter from the Muppet Show (pictured). There are those Razor scooters that kids and dorky adults ride around town. There's that episode of the Simpsons where Marge says "I haven't lost so much sleep since little Barty had the scoots." And now there's a website that provides user-generated, Google-map-based travel itineraries called TravelSkoot. Map-based itineraries are nothing new - Jaunted is no slouch in the map department, and a certain blogger has churned out a few in his day - but the twist here is that they're user-generated, and many of them have an entertainment and pop-culture focus. There are itineraries that kind of make you want to vomit a little bit, like the Real Housewives NYC itinerary, but there are also a few that are truly inspired, such as the Ferris Bueller's Day Off tour of Chicago. And to give it even more of a celebrity angle (if travel writers can ever be considered celebrities), NBC Today Show Travel Yoda Peter Greenberg has contributed a few Skoots of his own, using categories like "Off the Brochure," "One-Tank Trips," and "America the Beautiful." There's really no limit to the angles you could choose for your own itineraries - the Don Ho Tour of Hawaii, anyone? - so grab a muffin and start skooting.
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· TravelSkoot [Official Site]
· Peter Greenberg Worldwide [Official Site]
· Map Coverage [Jaunted]]]>