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)

Tourism for Engineers

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

Arctic

• Nunavut

Europe

• Rail Europe, fares and schedules

Scandinavia

• AutoEurope car rental in Sweden
• 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)

Trains

• Deutsche Bahn Timetables
• Sleeper/Couchette Prices between major cities

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

United States

Arizona

• Nevada Test Site tour schedule
• Sedona
• Prescott
• Jerome
• Nogales
• Mehiho

Texas

• Texasescapes.com

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