Travel

• Virtual Tourist Map
• Orbitz
• Tripadvisor.com (search multiple engines to compare prices)
• Venere lodging/flight search (worked better than Orbitz to find room in Salzburg)

Performances

• Bill Cosby
• Focus

Tourism for Engineers

• This is the Hewittic Mercury-arc Rectifier of Manx Electric Railway at Laxey in the Isle of Man

Arctic

• Nunavut
• Qeqertarsuaq, Disko Island, Greenland

Europe

Trains

• Deutsche Bahn Timetables
• Sleeper/Couchette Prices between major cities
• Rail Europe, fares and schedules

Germany

• Suggested itineraries in northern Germany
• Castles and palaces in northern Germany

Scandinavia

• Germany-Scandinavia OCT 2010
• Climate graph for Oslo
• Comfort Hotel Copenhagen
• Wakeup Copenhagen

France

Grenoble

• Geneva to Grenoble by train, $72 for two travellers, 2hr 15min

Vence

• Getting to Vence from Nice

Baltic

• ExpressToRussia.com Reserve St. Petersburg-Tallinn train tickets
• Euroline, bus service, Tallinn -> Riga

Austria

• Great looking dorm style hostel in Salzberg
• Great link for Salzberg apartments
• > Kolpinghaus student dorm/hotel (recommended by Harald Roeck, student of Christoph Kirsch CS University of Salzburg)

Russia

• Visa application
• A Briggs Russian Tourist Visa, site recommended by Orbitz, $55 fee on top of $131 Russian Consular fee
• East-West Tours, Bothell, WA
• Visit Russia, sent application for Airport to Hotel transfer on 11 June

= Maryland

• The Bay Guide, see Assateague Island about the horses

Arizona

• Antelope Canyon, Page, AZ

-Navajo Tours

• Sedona
• Prescott
• Jerome
• Nogales
• Mehiho

Nevada

• Nevada Test Site tour schedule

Texas

• Texasescapes.com

El Paso

• Chico's Tacos, 5 locations in El Paso, original location at 4230 Alameda Avenue

South America

• Visitchile.cl
• 11 July 2010, Total solar eclipse at sunset in Chile/Easter Island/Southern Argentina (El Calafate)
• Adventure-life.com
• Southamericanjourneys.com, mostly green and yoga crap
• South America Journeys, less crunchy than the "american" version above

Middle East

• Yemen, mud brick "skyscrapers" in Hadramut

Africa

• Wassu Stone Circles, Gambia