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These Web sites provide helpful or interesting information for travelers.
Fodors Restaurant Discriptions
City Search
City Search offers a wide variety of useful information about
cities in the U.S., Canada, and Australia.
MapQuest
MapQuest offers personalized and interactive maps for destinations
around the world.
Skilinks
skicentral.com
www.aminews.com
www.iski.com
www.rsn.com
www.skimaps.com
www.skinet.com
www.untracked.com
www.wzone.com/snozone
Specialty Travel
Index
Specialty Travel Index lists 600 tour operators offering specialty
interest vacations.
HotWired's Rough
Guides
Traveler's guides to Australia, Mexico, Europe, Canada, and
the U.S.
Festival Finder
The most comprehensive guide to North American music festivals,
listing details for more than 1300 events in the U.S. and Canada.
The
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
This map collection from the University of Texas at Austin
holds more than 230,000 maps covering every area of the world.
CDC Travel
Information
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention provides this
collection of invaluable information for the international traveler.
Travel
Warnings and Consular Information Sheets
Provided by the U.S. State Department. An essential resource
for international travelers.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is a fantastic resource no matter
what you're looking for. Travelers will be particularly interested
in the section for Global
Legal Information.
STS-79 NASA Shuttle
Web
Provides a glimpse of travel in the future.
Big Yellow
An on-line Yellow pages for the entire country.
Switchboard
A searchable on-line phone directory for the entire country.
Real
- Time Flight Tracking
Another real time flight tracking site.
International Youth Hostel FederationIt has information and connections to over 5000 youth hostels in 70 countries. Hostels offer inexpensive accommodations for travelers of all ages. They provide separate facilities for males and females, fully equipped self-service kitchens, dining areas and common rooms for relaxing and socializing.
www.worldtime.com. A service featuring information on local time as well as public holidays and sunrise and sunset in several hundred cities worldwide.
To find horse back riding adventures around the world, saddle up to www.ridingtours.com
Weatherwise: Here are five commercial sites to visit to check out up to date weather conditions around the world.
Click on www.festivals.com to search for fun things to do around the world .
CultureFinder has searchable listings of theater, classical music, and opera, visual arts and museums, dance and jazz performances around the country. www.culturefinder.com
To obtain listings for every foreign embassy in Washington, D.C., try http://www.embassy.org
TOURISM CENTERS: Tourist offices are often a good source of information for travelers. To find address, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and Web listings for both foreign and U.S. state offices.
WHAT'S ON? CultureFinder Tells you what's playing at theaters, concert halls, museums and other venues at your destination. Just enter the U.S. city you'll be visiting and the dates you'll be there, and you'll get a thorough list. .
MAP LAND: Mapquest Here's one for those afraid to ask a stranger for directions. You enter any two addresses in the United States and it will give you turn-by-turn directions and a thumbnail map. .
HOW FAR IS IT? Distance Finder Can tell you precisely how many miles it is from your home to Quito, Ecuador, or whether London is closer to Paris or Edinburgh. Distance Finder will calculate the distance between any two points, and provide the precise latitude and longitude of each. .
www.invented-city.com International Home Exchange, with 2000 home exchange opportunities in 24 countries. .
Supplies the basics in more than 60 languages, from French and Italian to Basque, Welsh and Azerbaijani. There's also a feature that allows you to translate virtually any word into any other language. In many of the languages, if you have the proper browser plug-in, you can even click on a foreign phrase and hear it pronounced. Cool!
Summer driving
www.Smartraveler.com posts latest accident reports, road conditions, and construction bulletins for 11 cities.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov///////webstate.htm for a list of links to all state highway department web sites.
www.sor.princeton.du/~dhb/systems.html with links to hundreds of city and state and traffic transit sites.
www.speedtrap.com for a list of speed traps in the U.S. and abroad.
Featured Articles
From David Bear
06-29-2008
One wonders what Samuel de Champlain might have thought about "Espace 400," the multimedia fair where this charming city's 400th anniversary is being celebrated. INCLUDES SPECIAL VIDEO FEATURE
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In the cradle of industry
06-14-2008
The birthplace of the modern metals industry is a now placid, tree-draped valley along the Severn River, 100 miles upstream from Bristol.
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Throngs of Norway
04-13-2008
From Viking origins to cosmopolitan crowds, Oslo celebrates humanity
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A Shropshire sojourn
03-31-2008
To our left, a pair of perfect parabolas arched across the broad green fields, iridescent croquet hoops complete end to end with six bands of color from violet to red.
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St. Maarten blessed with serene beaches
03-09-2008
Beach side resort gives whole new meaning to the notion of an airport hotel.
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Adventurer with purpose
02-19-2008
When it comes to appreciating the higher purposes of adventure travel, communicating them to a broad audience and then transforming that interest into action, Richard Bangs has been and continues to be a world-class practitioner.
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Casual Anguilla harbors miles of superb beaches
02-03-2008
On Anguilla, they do things differently.
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We must act now to save U.S. train transportation from extinction
01-20-2008
After a half a century of cutthroat competition from the country's highways and skyways, disregard from the federal government and disdain of the traveling public, the U.S. intercity passenger railway system is in tatters.
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THE MASSAHATTAN SNAP TUBE
10-18-2007
HERE'S SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1976, this short story is clearly fiction, but 40 years later, it still rings ironically true.
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Winging it: Soaring on a glider plane gives a bird's-eye view and experience
04-24-2005
The uplands of Central Pennsylvania have become a mecca for glider pilots
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Skaters warm up to Ottawa's 5-mile-long rink
02-22-2004
This article was a winner in the 2005 Canadian Lights awards for travel
writing about Canada
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