Huge text-friendly lists of airline URLs. Airline sites vary in their text-friendliness, of course, but just finding out about one $59 fare could make the struggle worthwhile.
Airlines Around the World from Routes International
Find a limousine, a bathroom, a snack and your ground transportation options in airports worldwide.
Airports on the World Wide Web from Routes International
Official City Sites Official hometown webpages are found worldwide, but this site aims to put their Internet links on a few tidy pages for efficient access. Many governments mandate at least partially accessible design, so you can usually get the real deal on when school lets out or when major road repairs are planned. Feel at home more quickly in a new place with advance information or learn things you never knew about your old neighborhood.
Getting Through Customs The name doesn't mean "customs" where the guy with the uniform goes through your dirty laundry. It means surviving the informal and sometimes unspoken customs that change from country to country and provides you with an extensive knowledge base to do just that.
A Carfree Home Page Voluntary dropout from car culture protests its practical dumbness and environmental damage. Great links page, too.
CARveat Emptor is now AutoBuyology, subutitled "An Arts and Sciences Crash Course in Carlessness 101." Tricks of the great American car deal exposed. If you can't avoid being part of a car transaction, attack some of the dings in the "deal" with the info on this page.
Perils for Pedestrians Web site of pro-pedestrian cable TV show by producer and pedestrian activist John Z. Wetmore. Lots of good links and info about one of America's most long-suffering minorities. Walking, as it turns out, is "on a per-mile basis...more dangerous than driving, flying, or riding a bus or train".
US Passport Information Of course, you've been meaning to get/renew/change your passport, but you keep putting it off and now a trip is approaching. Find out now from the official government site what/where/when to take care of that passport.
Rail Links Around the World from Routes International
Routes International Marine Links
Local Times Around the World Find the time anywhere on earth anytime.
World Telephone Numbering Guide Find codes and time zones for all countries, plus interesting history and explanations of telecommunications conventions, as well as updated info for renumbered areas as they occur.
zip2.com Type in an address and find businesses nearby...really nearby, with distances measured in tenths of a mile. Phone numbers and addresses are included, so you can make contact easily off-line. Personalize your page with your home and office addresses (easy to do) so that you can check for new things quickly.
ZipFind On-line utility lets you find the distance between two US zip codes OR zip codes within a specified mileage range from a starting zip code. Helpful for travel, as well as school, travel, and housing searches, several versions of ZipFind are also sold as separate zip-code software for programmers.
Transit sites are often cursed with "clickable maps" but luckily, there's text too--some of it extremely useful--posted by public transit authorities around the world. For a really large list first try Routes International City Transit Links. A few of our own discoveries also follow:
Journeywoman Award-winning megasite for women traveling everywhere--from the local subway to round-the-world flights. Real-world tips on what to wear (and pack) and how to stay safe and comfortable paradoxically make even grueling trips sound like exciting adventures because you're in control. Typical advice: What you bring, YOU have to lug...and tank-tops do NOT work to visit cathedrals.
Petswelcome.com Take Fido and Fluffy along on trips to these pet-loving lodgings. This is the kind of info it was really tough to find out before the Internet came along.
Travel museums from Routes International