Reading travelogues are a great research tool for travel planning, and travel inspiration. It's a useful way of reading someones daily experiences with a specific trip if you don't know someone who's already been to a destination. Let's be honest anyway -- most experiences you or your friends find unique has been done a thousands of times by others. So you can usually find entries very similar to the one you are looking into.
When I'm considering using a tour group I like to read travelogues from past participants, to get their feedback, and see how much of the descriptions are marketing BS. For these types of, using websites such as http://www.travelblog.com can help for searching, but one of the more disappointing aspects is that there are a lot of unfinished travelogues, or poorly detailed.
Many of the big tour groups (like contiki, GAP) have forums on their website with either outright links to the travelogues, or message posts with snippets of information. I believe these sites are missing out on a large marketing piece by not hard linking each of their trips with these blogs.
Two captivating sites I visit frequently are
http://www.wherethehellismatt.com
http://www.davechallenger.com
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