MyLifeOfTravel.com - Travel Journal and Research Tool

My Life of Travel is a free web-based travel blogging site that is also designed to be a useful travel research tool. On mylifeoftravel.com, users can keep a record of their trips, by integrating unlimited photos, an interactive Google map, YouTube videos, and of course text. Photo uploads are automatically compressed by the built-in upload too, to save time when traveling. The interactive map is also created automatically, based on a user’s journal entries. You can add contacts to your account and notify selected contacts when you update your travel journal, or specify what each contact can view. My Life of Travel can also be a useful research tool for travelers, and includes a private messaging system so you can contact someone for advice or to seek out a travel buddy. There is also a public travel calendar for those seeking travel companions. There is a powerful search engine that let’s you check the level of content in an entry before you bother clicking through to it.

"www.mylifeoftravel.com is a user-friendly travel blogging website with many unique and easy-to-use features. Users can create multiple travel journals consisting of an unlimited number of journal entries, stories and photos, uploaded using an easy-upload tool which automatically compresses photos before uploading to save the user precious internet time. During the journal-entry creation process, the site automatically maps users' travels onto an animated world map, displaying the route travelled. The website provides a great way of researching upcoming trips and finding interesting places to visit."

My Life of Travel is already hosting the travelogues of close to 20,000 members, without having done any active marketing or advertising for the site in the past. With its re-launch and official public offering today, mylifeoftravel.com will start to promote itself through more than the word-of-mouth that has already served it quite well.

Is this site going to remain ad-free? If so, will they have to start charging members? Does mylifeoftravel.com have the capacity to handle the quick expansion that may come with its re-launch, given that photo uploads and journal entries are currently unlimited for every member?