Travel portals offers insight to locations around the world.
Whether for business or pleasure, traveling is always an adventure. You can take some of the uncertainty out of it by visiting www.planetrider.com. This site features useful links and easy-to-read paragraphs that outline attractions for an entire region. Of course, if you are looking to travel with all the creature comforts of home, then why not bring your creature and keep it comfortable? At www.petswelcome.com there is a database of pet-friendly lodgings and information that range from Steamboat Springs, Colorado, to Ghana, Africa.
If you are looking to bring your pet or just yourself on a cross-country cruise then use www.mapquest.com to plan your trip. It is a tried-and-true Web service that provides accurate, simple driving directions for anywhere in the country. To those of you who consider two dimensions to be a tad passé, check out Google Earth at http://earth.google.com. It is a complex, powerful beta software from Google that requires a fast computer and allows you to view a three-dimensional image of the earth constructed from satellite images. It also has trip-planning features that let you plan your route and then lay it out over the satellite images. The satellite imagery is good enough that you can see cars in Cork, Ireland, and the tide off of the coast of Australia. It contains all of Google’s typical search functionality. In fact, the simplest way to describe it to the uninitiated is “Google 3-D.” And that is still an understatement, as this program offers unlimited help while planning a trip—from Jakarta, Indonesia, to Hoboken, NJ. And with the earth being so diverse, it is nice to know where you and your money stand. Use the Expedia currency converter to find your place. You can view it here.
(Originally Published in the SPAN Connection, December 2005)
If you are looking to bring your pet or just yourself on a cross-country cruise then use www.mapquest.com to plan your trip. It is a tried-and-true Web service that provides accurate, simple driving directions for anywhere in the country. To those of you who consider two dimensions to be a tad passé, check out Google Earth at http://earth.google.com. It is a complex, powerful beta software from Google that requires a fast computer and allows you to view a three-dimensional image of the earth constructed from satellite images. It also has trip-planning features that let you plan your route and then lay it out over the satellite images. The satellite imagery is good enough that you can see cars in Cork, Ireland, and the tide off of the coast of Australia. It contains all of Google’s typical search functionality. In fact, the simplest way to describe it to the uninitiated is “Google 3-D.” And that is still an understatement, as this program offers unlimited help while planning a trip—from Jakarta, Indonesia, to Hoboken, NJ. And with the earth being so diverse, it is nice to know where you and your money stand. Use the Expedia currency converter to find your place. You can view it here.
(Originally Published in the SPAN Connection, December 2005)
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