New Site Alerts Last-Minute Vacationers

If you get sudden urges to head for a distant beach, golf course or ski slope, the new site LicketyTrip could solve lodging searches. It claims to be "the only site dedicated to truly last-minute vacation rental listings." Clever design -- you just click on a map where a rental listing for this week or next is posted and up pops a balloon with details. Limitations: now in "preview," the site covers U.S. only and is heavy on East, Midwest and West Coast, light on Rockies.