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11thHourVactions.com
http://www.11thhourvacations.com/index_home.php?DK=0
Almost every plane has an empty seat at take off. Most Hotels and
Cruise lines have empty rooms. Why can't these be yours? These unsold
airline seats, hotel rooms and cabins can be purchased. Your dream
vacation may finally be affordable. Art’s comments: “This
site specializes in international itineraries with an active bent.”
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AAA
Fuel Cost Calculator
http://www.fuelcostcalculator.com/
Calculate The Estimated Fuel Cost Of Your Trip. Choose your starting
point, destination, make/model/year of vehicle from dropdown menus
and click "Calculate." |
airporthotelguide.com.
http://www.airporthotelguide.com/
You'll find links to info on 60 cities, including facts about parking
and airlines as well as rooms. |
Atlapedia
Online
http://www.atlapedia.com/
This site provides facts, figures, and statistical data on geography,
climate, people, religion, language, history, economy, as well as
maps for each individual country. |
AutoPilot
http://www.freetrip.com/
Put in cities and states of departure and arrival, route preferences
(direct, scenic, or scenic in just one state), enroute facilities
and AutoPilot will produce an itinerary for your trip, including
miles covered and accumulated time. |
Currency
Converter
http://www.oanda.com/converter/classic
FXConverter (Foreign Exchange Currency Converter) is a multi-lingual
Currency Converter with up to date exchange rates provided from
leading market data contributors and is filtered for validity. |
Expedia
Travel
http://www.expedia.com/daily/home/default.asp?rfrr=-1065&CCheck=1
One-stop travel resource. |
Experience
Your America: National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/parks.html
Shows national parks throughout the country. |
Historic
Hotels of America
http://www.nationaltrust.org/historic_hotels/
This site from the National Trust for Historic Preservation features
historic hotels, searchable by state. Hotel listings include photo,
brief history, amenities, and visitors can make reservations through
an 800 number. |
LastMinuteTravel.com
http://www.lastminutetravel.com/
Your official Internet source for travel at The Last Minute is open
24/7. Art’s comments: “This company scans the deals touted
on other travel web sites compiies them on its own and connects
you directly to the provider.” |
MapBlast
http://mappoint.msn.com/(rq0t133ddpusue55d1sel055)/home.aspx
For those who do not ask for directions. |
Map
Machine: National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/index.html |
MapQuest
http://www.mapquest.com/
A service that generates maps and plots driving routes. A 5 star
site |
moments-notice.com/
http://moments-notice.com/
Offers incredible vacation values at "rock bottom" prices
that are hundreds -- sometimes thousands -- of dollars less than
you would expect to pay. It is especially for people who, on short
notice, can pack a bag, pocket their passports, and take off for
some of the world's most fascinating destinations... for far less
than the advertised price. Art’s comments: “New York-based
travel club that emphasizes cruises and global trips.” |
My
Travel Rights
http://www.mytravelrights.com/
Brought to you by America's largest Web-based nonprofit association
dedicated to protecting the rights of traveling consumers. A Fact
of interest: ENIAC, the first electronic computer, appeared 50 years
ago. The original ENIAC was about 80 feet long, weighed 30 tons,
had 17,000 tubes. By comparison, a desktop computer today can store
a million times more information than an ENIAC and is 50,000 times
faster. |
National
Scenic Byways Online
http://www.byways.org/
National Scenic Byways Online provides travelers with current, detailed
information about byways throughout the United States. Sponsored
by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), this site promotes
the America's Byways. |
One
Bag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light
http://www.oratory.com/onebag/
This Website, offers exhaustive detail on the art of travelling
light and living for an indefinite period of time out of a single
carry-on-sized bag. |
Orbitz
http://www.orbitz.com
A travel site. Check out Orbitz' advanced search engine to search
all airlines and over 2 billion fares in just seconds. |
ParkNet
http://www.nps.gov/
Planning a vacation this summer? Experience your America and visit
a national park. |
Pets
Welcome
http://www.petswelcome.com/
Listings for over 25,000 hotels, B&Bs, ski resorts, campgrounds,
and beaches that are pet-friendly. Check out our Travel Tips section
to learn how to take your pet anywhere. |
Recreation.Gov
http://www.recreation.gov/
"One-stop resource for information about recreation on federal
lands. Recreation.GOV offers information from all of the federal
land management agencies and allows you to search for recreation
sites by state, by agency, or by recreational activity." |
Roadside
Peek
http://www.roadsidepeek.com/index.htm
Take a roadside journey with Roadside Peek. Discover hidden treasures
along Route 66. Visit old motels, bowling alleys, petrol pumps and
tiki villages across the country. |
Roadsideamerica.com:
your online guide to offbeat tourist attractions
http://www.roadsideamerica.com
It focuses on the strange roadside attractions in America with
full directions and descriptions. |
Roadsidefood.com
http://www.roadfood.com/
A site devoted exclusively to finding the most memorable local eateries
along the highway and back roads in America |
Road
Trip USA
http://www.roadtripusa.com/
Ready for a taste of the open road? Choose route numbers or names
to access driving tours across more than 35,000 miles of classic
blacktop. Then sit back and experience part of America—the
small towns, funky attractions, roadside curiosities, and more—that
the interstates have left behind. |
SeeAmerican.org
http://www.seeamerica.org/
The official web site of National Council of State Tourism Directors.
Planning a vacation or a business trip? Questions about where to
go, how to get there, where to stay and what to do can all be answered
by state/territorial tourism offices. |
ShawGuides
http://www.shawguides.com/
What
are you planning to do on your vacation? Tired of that same old
beach/mountains/visiting relatives routine? This year, perhaps you
should do something different. Learn a foreign language. Perfect
your golf game. Attend a writer's conference. Study cooking in France
or painting in Italy? If you need an idea, try poking around in
ShawGuides, a voluminous directory of educational
and cultural travel programs. This site is not gorgeous by any means,
but the content is rich and deep. The database contains information
on more than 5,300 different programs, organized into 11 categories:
The
Guide to Art & Craft Workshops
The Guide to Career Cooking & Wine Schools
The Guide to Cultural Travel
The Guide to Photography, Film & New Media Schools
The Guide to Golf Schools & Camps
The Guide to Writers Conferences & Workshops
The Guide to Recreational Cooking & Wine Schools
The Guide to Language Vacations
The Guide to Tennis Schools & Camps
The Guide to Photography, Film, and New Media Workshops
The Guide to High Performance Programs
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site
59.com
http://www.site59.com/
Specializes in planning discounted trips at the last minute, has
partnerships with airlines, rental car companies, restaurants and
theaters, and will arrange transportation, lodging and in some cases,
meals in one package. Art’s Comments: “offers package
deals on themed getaways." |
Smarter
Travel
http://www.smartertravel.com/
By subscribing to one of Smarter Travel's free email newsletters,
you are entitled to exclusive savings on Airfare, Hotels, Car Rentals
and More. Art Sloan's Comments: “Does not offer booking directly,
but alerts you to upcoming bargains and includes links to providers'
sites.” |
StartSpot
Network
http://www.startspot.com/.
StartSpot MediaWorks, Inc. Reviewed June 2003.
The StartSpot Network is a family of "Spot" sites, each
serving as an indepth web portal for its category by guiding users
to a wealth of outstanding resources which have been selected by
an editorial team. Current spots include BookSpot, CinemaSpot, EmploymentSpot,
GovernmentSpot, GenealogySpot, HomeworkSpot, HeadlineSpot, LibrarySpot,
MuseumSpot, and TripSpot. Of particular note are LibrarySpot and
BookSpot LibrarySpot provides links to the web pages of public,
K-12, academic, and other specialized libraries and a reference
desk linking to reference works of all types. The site also links
to sources of speeches, full-text articles, library associations,
conferences and jobs, as well as some categories overlapping in
part with BookSpot, such as sources of literary criticism. Among
the offerings of BookSpot are links to best seller lists, pre-pub
alerts, book club titles and read-a! likes as well as book reviews,
book awards, poetry, and links to full text classics. Although these
sites do carry advertising, in comparison with many such sites,
their lack of annoying pop-up-boxes greatly increases their appeal
and makes them outstanding starting points for anyone seeking to
quickly and easily find first-rate information on the Web.
Best Free Reference Web Sites 2003
Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the reference and User
Services Association (RUSA) of American Library Association |
States
and Capitols
http://www.50states.com/
Includes facts and information on all 50 states. |
Travel
Tidings USA
http://www.traveltidingsusa.com/
Welcome to Travel Tidings USA – gateway to more than 5,000
travel sites featuring over 50,000 pages of information on cities,
attractions, events and accommodation throughout the United States. |
Travelers’
Health. National Center for Infectious Disease
http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/default.aspx
Information you need to know before you travel outside the United
States. |
travelweb.com
http://travelweb.com/
This site books hotels and flights. Art’s comments: “This
site has a “click it” feature that lists upcoming weekend
specials.” |
Trip.com
http://www.trip.com/
At this site you can learn strategies for stress free travel and
find many travel deals. The tab "flight tracker" is interesting.
Pick an airline and a flight number (example: "Southwest 192) and
track the flight. This site was recommended by Donna Watson's husband.
Thanks Floyd. |
The
Universal Currency Converter
http://www.xe.com/ucc/
XE Corporation. Reviewed 27 Feb. 2002.
The Universal Currency Converter allows you to perform interactive
foreign exchange rate calculations using live, up-to-the-minute
currency rates. Conversion is very easy to do. Type in the amount
of the currency you want to convert, select the type of currency
you are converting from, select the type of currency you are converting
to, and click the conversion button. The site features both a standard
version containing approximately 90 major currencies and a full
version containing 180 plus currencies from more than 250 geographical
locations. This site is helpful to those with international travel
plans and students trying to compare international financial data.
Best Free Reference Web Sites 2002
Fourth Annual List
RUSA Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS)
American Library Association |
Whatsgoingon
http://www.whatsgoingon.com/
Another site that you can use to plan your summer vacation. Look
for all festivals, events, and destinations that you can visit in
your spare time. |
Yahoo
Travel
http://travel.yahoo.com/
A travel site. |
