Chrome Web App of the Week: DayZipping

Posted 08/22/2011 at 12:43pm | by Seamus Bellamy

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With the economy’s on-again-off-again struggle to crawl out of the toilet, holding on to your dough is the sensible thing to do. That means that extras like eating dinners out and updating your PC are out, and buying No-Name brand mac and cheese is very much in. Sooner or later, all of that spendthrift behavior’s bound to leave you with an itch to burn through some coin. When that itch hits, we recommend you blow a bit of dough on something that you, your family, or a friend can enjoy together like a day trip planned with DayZipping, our Chrome Web App of the Week.

DayZipping is an ingenious web service designed to help travelers plan short, inexpensive day trips to popular destinations as well as locales off the beaten path. Featuring advice from locals living in the area of suggested destinations as well as input from other DayZipping users, there’s always more than enough information on hand to ensure that the shoelace budgeted adventure you choose will be right up your alley. At the time of this article’s writing, DayZipping featured destinations in 50 states, as well as 15 countries around the world. All of the trips suggested on the service can be searched by cost, location and category, making finding what you’re looking for a cinch.

After returning from their road trip, users are invited to comment about their experience, and can even add new destinations, tours and whole day trips to the service for other DayZipping users to benefit from.

Be sure to check back with us every Monday for another edition of Chrome Web App of the Week.