7 travel apps for making your summer vacation plans

As National Lampoon can attest, summer travel rarely goes according to plan.

The list of things that can go wrong on a summer trip is endless: running out of gas, losing a wallet, finally getting to the final destination just to discover that it's closed ... 

Technology can help. 

For nearly every stressor that pops up around summer travel, there's an app to help travelers smooth things out. But as for dealing with a dead relative in the back seat? No app for that. Yet.

Lola

Lola, which launched earlier this month, gives travelers their own half-computer, half-human travel agent. Read more...