A travel message board provided by Lonely Planet on their website, at http://thortree.lonelyplanet.com/. The board is divided into "branches" such as "Central Asia", "Indian Subcontinent", "On your Bike", "Travelling Companions", and "Talk Politics, Why Don't You?", and is moderated to fight trolls. The board has thousands and thousands of users, and is an excellent source of information you couldn't find in a guidebook, such as the current political situation in Kosovo or the best place to stay and eat in a specific middle-of-nowhere town.