Just you and a few thousand travel friends

It's about time. Someone has apparantly come up with the genius idea to use social media to group like-minded adventure travelers together on a global basis and to then use that collective buying power to get discounts from 50 of the world's top tour operators. Seems a cool concept. To hang with a few thouand of your backpacker friends, or just to read the San Francisco Chronicle news story on what its all about, click here.