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ABC 7 View from the Bay
“Why 71Miles!?”

KRON 4 Morning News
“John Vlahides has a great website, 71Miles.com… they specialize in weekend adventures for locals… not for the folks who are coming in from out of town.”

San Francisco Chronicle
71Miles has you covered for suggestions and reviews on weekend trips.

7×7 (print only)
“Our favorite new travel site is 71miles.com, a comprehensive guide to weekend travel trips from SF.”

San Francisco Magazine (print only)
“…71Miles…remind[s] us why Northern California is a great—if not the best—place to live in the country. And we here at San Francisco can’t help but pat ourselves on the back that [this site was] founded by…a former contributor… [The site uses] a bloglike approach to travel coverage, providing quirky and opinionated suggests on how to spend a weekend away. It’s a stylish approach you won’t find in any guidebook.
“‘Most editors I’ve had have declawed me,’ says 71Miles cofounder John Vlahides, whose byline has graced the pages of Fodor’s and Lonely Planet guides. “I know there’s room for tell-it-like-it-is writing,” he says. The site is organized by city and region, covering restaurants, hotels, must-see attractions, and history, with all tips written by…Vlahides.”

(Excerpted from “A Tale of Two Getaway Guides,” San Francisco magazine, June 2007, pg. 50)

The San Francisco Bay Guardian
“We’re lovin’ 71Miles, a local travel site put together by former television travel commentator and late-night heartthrob John Vlahides — who certainly seems to know a lot about the Bay’s ‘hidden spots’.”

Daily Candy
“GO: 71Miles
What: New regional travel site focuses on weekend getaways with hotel deals to boot.
Why: Get out of town.
When: Whenever.
Where: Northern Cali.”
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SFist
“71 Miles — an extraordinarily useful local travel site (at last!) for those of us living in the Bay Area (i.e., not tourists) who want to know more about hitting up the greater Bay Area, the beach, downtown SF, or around your very own block — exposes the dark underbelly of Clint Eastwood’s former kingdom [of Carmel].”

Lifehacker
“Looking to get away for the weekend but don’t want to hop on a flight or drive 10 hours to do so? Web site 71Miles is designed to make regional trips a breeze…”

Google Developer Blog – Code Featured Projects
Google APIs used: Maps API. Screenshot

Cool Hunting
“Driven by real-time pricing from Kayak’s discount hotel booking service and sponsored links from hotels, the “Travel 2.0″ site combines word-of-mouth-style info with internet-enabled features to make planning a quick trip way easier than calling a travel agent or hounding friends.”

Matthew Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress
“71Miles is a cool new travel site with a twist PM readers will find interesting — it’s built with WordPress… Definitely one of the coolest uses of the WordPress framework I’ve seen in a while.”

Kayak.com Blog
“Just launched this week is 71Miles.com, our newest affiliate and the first product to integrate the Kayak hotel search API.”

Download Squad (Weblogs, Inc.)
“71Miles merged many API’s together making use of WordPress, and the Google Maps API. The whole site is built on the WordPress platform, and might be one of the most innovative uses of the WP blog framework ever created.”

Brightcove
“Site of the Day: Daytrip your way around the best of the Golden State.”

MetroBlogging San Francisco
“Local site 71 Miles is something I’ve found to be a great source for local travel, especially those looking for a place to stay for weekend getaways. The local version of 71 Miles has just posted their list of Top Ten Hotels for Two (for sex), specifically naming their ten favorite Bay Area weekend getaway lodgings for couples who want to get it on in a nice place.”

Lunch Meet
“Most travel sites give you the world, but don’t specialize on the local. 71Miles is a travel site that does just that.” 19 minutes of John and me. On video!

Meal Ticket
“Also thankfully there’s now a web site that actually lets you unearth all the hidden gems by way of daytrips – make sure you check out 71miles.com to plan what you want to do.”

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