You may like to vacation without guidebooks and Google maps, but don't let the thrill of discovering a destination on your own keep you from checking out these 12 social travel apps.
Your next adventure will be all the more memorable, affordable and inspiring because of them.
-- Research and reporting by offMetro.com staff writers Devon Antonetti and Kea Krause.
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