Tripatini's "Ask a Travel Pro" Will Give You Answers to Difficult Travel Questions

Anxious to travel between two small towns in Poland but you don't know how? Looking for a Caribbean island with a café for playing chess? You're a vegan and you don't know how you'll survive on a boat tour of the Galapagos Islands?

If the travel question is too difficult for even the strongest information website, if you've searched in vain for answers to seemingly-insoluble travel conundrums, then you'll want to click on the words "Ask a Travel Pro" at the top of the social-networking website known as Tripatini.com ( www.tripatini.com ). Numerous human equivalents in travel of the people we call "nerds" -- countless travel wizards, dozens of prolific travel writers -- have signed up with Tripatini.com to answer the most difficult travel questions.

If you simply want to view questions posed by other users of Tripatini, and the answers to those questions, there's no problem. You can see those brain-testing interrogations by simply logging on.

But if you want to pose your own question to Tripatini's troupe of experts, you've got to register. And therein lies a bit of work on your part. Pardon me, you creators of Tripatini, but my biggest gripe in computerdom is the requirement that you write down the words spelled by two wavy artistic creations of script appearing in a box, and you decipher them successfully, before you are then permitted to continue. And that's not all. On Tripatini, after you've given them your user name and password, and the decipherment of the wavy letters, you then pull up a screen containing ten minutes' worth of biographical questions -- "Who, exactly are you?" "Are you a travel professional?", "If not, are you simply an avid traveler?" -- that must be properly answered before Tripatini.com will let you proceed.

I'm told that an obstacle course of the sort appearing in Tripatini is nothing unusual, that numerous websites of social networking -- like Facebook, for instance -- confront you with the same obligations before they'll admit you to the network.

So if you're willing to devote ten minutes to Tripatini's own obstacle course, you can then make use of what is an excellent travel service on the Internet.