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HOW TO SEE THE WORLD Art of Travel - European and World Backpacking |
Of the Interim General Interest Guidebook Gear Email Travel
- Weights, Measures, and Conversions: With Other Useful Travel Information
- The pre-Internet Chapter 23.
- Earth now has so many spacecraft orbiting Mars care must be taken that they don't collide. (Photos of Mars Odyssey (NASA) and Mars Express (ESA) by Mars Global Surveyor (NASA).
- Golf cart-sized rovers make Mars theoretically hitchhikable.
- odci.gov
- CIA World Factbook. I'm grateful for the information, but couldn't it be deeper?
- cdc.gov
- Centers for Disease Control. If you've been as unwell as I have (twice), before developing world travel you'll be visiting this site with your tongue hanging out!
- state.gov
- U.S. Department of State. Do check and respect travel advisories before developing world travel. Other official sites include fco.gov.uk, dfait-maeci.gc.ca, dfat.gov.au, and france.diplomatie.fr.
- loc.gov
- LOC Area Handbooks. The Library of Congress, one of the great institutions in the history of the world, is but a fraction of the Internet.
- newslink.org
- A listing of thousands of online newspapers by the American Journalism Review, including Le Monde, La Prensa (Nicaragua), Economic Review (Kenya), China Daily, and the Irish, Middle East, and Tehran Times.
- unesco.org/whc/heritage.htm
- The United Nations World Heritage List of 552 cultural and natural special places in 112 countries.
- amnesty.org
- With only 99 million more supporters Amnesty International could become an irresistible force for universal human rights.
- mit.edu
- As the Massachusetts Institute of Technology places 2000 courses and related materials free online, soon the whole world will be sharing scholarship.
- gregoryrsmith.com
- Supergenius lad loves to learn and has superempathy. Campaigns worldwide for children and nonviolence. Read the Washington Post portrait and his thoughts. A very hopeful development. (Maybe it's only normal empathy.)
- lib.utexas.edu/maps
- Four thousand political, geographical, and historical online maps from the University of Texas.
- nasa.gov
- Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the bravest machines ever invented, who without blink of an eye dare the outermost edges of Earthly possibility, the Ibn Battuta's of the modern age, the heroic robots Hubble, Galileo, Sojourner, Cassini, and Thud.
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- Note #1
- Visit your local independent outdoor retailer--they might be cool.
- Note #2
- Can you get by with a paper sack until the revolutionary SUPRNILSTR II ships?
- rei.com
- REI is a co-op chain of forty outdoor superstores featuring efficient USA market prices. The retail stores have sales approximately the first weeks of May and October.
- campmor.com
- Campmor is a major USA outdoor cataloguer featuring efficient USA market prices. From the catalog I bought a reasonable internal-frame pack as a half-price closeout, then modified it into my current SUPRNILSTR. (Lesson: It's good to have a feel for what you're buying.)
- yahoo.com/ ~ /luggage_and_accessories/
yahoo.com/ ~ /gear_and_equipment/- If searching for the perfect everything, keep in mind that if your pack is ever lost, within a few days you'll be back on the road with most, if not all, of your previous capability.
hotmail.com yahoo.com netscape.com excite.com lycos.com mailcity.com netaddress.com rocketmail.com
- iyhf.org
- The International Youth Hostel Federation.
- hostels.com
- Lists thousands of hostels. (Personally, I assume they're there and wing it.)
- elderhostel.org
- Moderate-cost worldwide learning programs for 55 and over travelers from Elderhostel, a non-profit formed in 1975.
- freetranslation.com
- Free and easy web page and text paste-in machine translation of English to and from several European languages.
- holidayfestival.com
- Supplies dates of holidays and festivals for nations, states, religions, and cultures, including Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Chinese Lunar.
- burn.ucsd.edu/~ssady
- Chiapas--The People, the Land, the Struggle from Associated Press photographer Scott Sady.
- backpackeurope.com
- Kaaryn Hendrickson's Backpack Europe on a Budget, information from her adventures and excellent collection of links.
- autostop.lt
- Vilnius Hitchhiking Club. Fun site with photographs, records, and links to other clubs. When hitching in Russia in winter at night they wear reflectors.
- travelog.net
- John F.X. Bern's adventures, photography, and commentary as he gives up a good job for a year on the road with computer and digital camera. Current reportage is from Asia.
- servas.org
- Servas, formed in 1948 and which means "we serve" in Esperanto, is a one hundred country organization of hosts and travelers dedicated to world peace and understanding through individual contact.
- travel-library.com
- Round-the-World Travel Guide. A good example of distributed intelligence.
- oratory.com/travel
- Public-speaker/frequent-flyer/psychic-entertainer Doug Dyment's The Compleat Carry-On Traveler.
- suite101.com/topics/page.cfm/92
- Bernd Wechner's extensive collection of hitchhiking commentary, reviews, and links.
- geocities.com/TheTropics/2442/database.html
- From Portugal, Manuel Montenegro's Database of TravelHelpers, a list of 400 individuals from all over the world who have volunteered to advise on their home areas.
- IRC
- Internet Relay Chat. Find out how to log on (the test), then chat with real people in foreign lands! (Hint: visit mirc.co.uk for access shareware.)
- travlang.com
- It's either something in Tagalog or a language site.
- samexplo.org
- South American Explorers' Club. So good I almost joined.
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