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Verified Sep-02.
This site demands a username and password for access and cannot be viewed by the general public. Verified Mar-02.
This site offers information for potential A And W franchisers. There is also a limited amount of information on the history of the chain and its current products. Verified Mar-02.
Verified Mar-02.
Different content to the other sites. Verified Mar-02.
This site belongs to Yorkshire Global Restaurants, who own A And W in the USA, and Long John Silver's. It was under development when I visited it in Mar-02. Verified Mar-02.
Verified Nov-98.
The home page of this site demands entry of the user's ZIP code (USA) or postcode (Canada). Visitors from other countries can enter a ZIP code of 32746 in order to enter the site. This information does not appear on the site; I discovered it by Emailing the question to them. However, I have been informed that entering this ZIP code leads you to the Southern Florida section of the AAA, implying that entering a different valid ZIP code might lead to different content. Verified (with ZIP code 32746) Dec-97.
Detailed information on current gas (petrol) prices in each US state and major city. Verified Sep-02.
Covers the entire world, not just the USA and Canada. Verified Sep-02.
A chain of art supplies shops, including home decor and picture frames. Verified Sep-02.
US hotel/motel listings for each town. Each property's name, address, and phone number is listed, but no rates. Lists include budget motel chains and independents. Verified Apr-97.
This official site details the benefits available to AARP members, including discounts, together with other information including details of how to apply for membership. Verified Aug-99.
Verified Apr-97.
A national clothing store chain, aiming at the 20-30 age range. Verified Sep-02.
Including Mount Rogers Recreation Area and the Virginia Creeper Trail. Verified May-97.
A very useful summary. Verified Sep-03.
This motel chain operates in British Columbia only. Verified Feb-01.
The parent company of Motel 6; this site includes a page for Motel 6. Verified Mar-04. The Motel 6 site is more appropriate if you are specifically looking for information on Motel 6.
A chain of home improvement/hardware/DIY shops. Verified Sep-02.
Accor are the parent company of the Motel 6 and Red Roof Inn chains, plus a number of European hotel and motel chains including Etap, Formule 1, Mercure and Novotel. This site has links to each of their chains. Verified Mar-04.
A driveaway car company. Verified Jan-02.
This company has locations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Washington State. Verified May-00.
Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, this company offers tours to Red Rock Canyon, Valley of Fire, the Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce Canyon and Death Valley. Verified Aug-99.
An adventure holiday company. Verified Apr-97.
Verified Sep-99.
Wisconsin Central own the Algoma Central Railway which operates the Sault Ste Marie - Agawa Canyon Tours in Ontario. For information, see under the "North American Rail Information" section of this official site. Verified Dec-99.
Includes some information on the Algoma Central Railway (now owned by Wisconsin Central) and its trips from Sault Ste Marie to Agawa Canyon. Verified Sep-99.
Verified Jul-02.
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Verified Jul-02.
Includes information on current delays at major US airports. The information appears in windows; to save it you must select it, use CTRL/C to copy it, then paste it into a program such as Notepad and save it from there. The site has several other sections offering other information. Verified Sep-02.
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) of the rec.travel.air newsgroup. Includes links to airline and other travel related web sites. Verified Jul-02.
Air UK
See KLM UK.
Verified Jul-02.
Jan Martin's personal site has airport codes, aircraft codes, airline codes and other information such as details of the runways at each airport. Although the site is primarily intended for use with flight simulator computer programs, it is also of considerable interest to anyone travelling by air. Verified Feb-03.
A UK-based company selling flights to the USA. Verified Feb-01.
Airlines
See separate section.
Verified Jul-02.
A very useful list of links to the web sites of various bus lines, railways, ferries, airlines, etc. Verified Jul-02.
Verified Jul-02.
Verified Sep-99.
Jan Martin's personal site has airport codes, aircraft codes, airline codes and other information such as details of the runways at each airport. Although the site is primarily intended for use with flight simulator computer programs, it is also of considerable interest to anyone travelling by air. Verified Feb-03.
Airports
See separate section.
Links to the web sites of many airlines, airports, car rental companies, cruise lines, railway and railroad companies, and hotel and motel chains, together with their US telephone numbers. Verified Mar-02.
Verified Jan-99.
Verified May-97.
Verified May-97.
Official site. Verified Mar-99.
Official site. Verified Dec-01.
Verified May-00.
All three URL's lead to the same content. All three URL's verified Feb-04.
Verified Apr-97.
Verified Apr-97.
Verified May-00.
Verified Jan-99.
Verified May-00.
A very interesting and in places amusing personal travelogue of a trip with a campervan from Denver to Alaska. Verified Dec-98.
Verified May-97.
Official site. Verified Dec-01.
Verified Jul-97.
Verified May-97.
Verified Apr-97.
Includes Alberta highway condition information. Verified May-00.
Verified Nov-00.
Verified May-97.
Official site. Verified Mar-99.
A personal site with a great deal of information. Verified May-97.
This appears to be the official Alberta Tourism site. Verified Jul-99.
Verified Apr-97.
Verified Jan-00.
Verified Sep-02.
Discount store chains. Verified Sep-02.
This is Aldi's US web site. When I visited it in Feb-02, it listed store locations in the following states: Arkansas, Connecticut, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York State, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin and West Virginia. Verified Sep-02.
Wisconsin Central own the Algoma Central Railway which operates the Sault Ste Marie - Agawa Canyon Tours in Ontario. For information, see under the "North American Rail Information" section of this official site. Verified Dec-99.
Verified Sep-99.
Includes some information on the Algoma Central Railway (now owned by Wisconsin Central) and its trips from Sault Ste Marie to Agawa Canyon. Verified Sep-99.
Official site. Verified May-97.
A personal site with a great deal of useful information. Verified Apr-97.
A personal site with photographs. Verified Apr-97.
A personal site with photographs. Verified Apr-97.
A personal site with photographs. Verified May-97.
A personal site with photographs. Verified May-97.
This search engine promises that it will eventually index the entire web. Verified 8-May-99.
All The World's Newspapers
See Online Newspapers.
This site claims to have "the very best linguistically and historically verifiable etymologies of the names of all the US states". Verified Jan-07.
Search Engine. Amongst many other features, options lead to the very useful "Photo Finder" and "Maps" facilities (maps are available for the USA only). Verified May-99.
Verified Aug-02.
Cinema chain. Verified Sep-02.
A UK-based holiday operator. Verified Jan-01.
The trial versions expire after fourteen days. Verified Feb-99.
Both URL's lead to the same content. Both URL's verified Jul-02.
This official site details the benefits available to AARP members, including discounts, together with other information including details of how to apply for membership. Verified Aug-99.
The home page of this site demands entry of the user's ZIP code (USA) or postcode (Canada). Visitors from other countries can enter a ZIP code of 32746 in order to enter the site. This information does not appear on the site; I discovered it by Emailing the question to them. However, I have been informed that entering this ZIP code leads you to the Southern Florida section of the AAA, implying that entering a different valid ZIP code might lead to different content. Verified (with ZIP code 32746) Dec-97.
Detailed information on current gas (petrol) prices in each US state and major city. Verified Sep-02.
Unfortunately this online route planner requires users to register, including their name, street address and phone number. Verified Oct-02.
Detailed information for each US state for diabetes sufferers wishing to drive, but aimed mainly at US citizens rather than visitors from other countries. Verified Jun-05.
The "Visa Services" section includes full details of visa requirements for visitors to the USA from Britain and how the Visa Waiver Programme operates. It also has information on machine readable passport and biometric passport requirements. The site also has links to some US travel information sites. Verified Jun-04.
Verified Apr-97.
This personal site features an extensive collection of American folk tales, usefully indexed by a variety of categories. Verified Sep-02.
According to the description in the Scout Report, this online dictionary has 90,000 entries, 70,000 audio word pronunciations in WAV format, and 900 illustrations. Verified Oct-02.
This section of Kodak's site features photographs taken every mile along several US highways by creator Matt Frondorf, in a manner somewhat similar style to the BBC's classic "London To Brighton in Three Minutes" stop-frame film. This clever and potentially valuable concept is ruined by it apparently being impossible to save or download the material for offline viewing. The images flash past too quickly to assimilate and to save them individually (if this is possible) would be an enormous task. Verified Dec-99.
Verified Aug-97.
A magnificent personal site with information on the National Parks and other scenic and interesting areas of Arizona, southern California, southwestern Colorado and southern Utah. Verified Sep-98.
I didn't find it easy to find any information on this web site. Verified Aug-02.
This motel chain has locations in Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Verified May-00.
A very useful introduction to the Amish people of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Verified Jun-04.
Verified Jun-04.
This is a domain name search engine which is extremely useful for finding the web sites of companies and other organisations. It requires your browser to be capable of running JavaScript. Verified May-99.
When I visited this URL in Aug-02 it displayed the BP web site (which failed in Netscape Navigator but worked in Internet Explorer) with obvious no mention of the Amoco name. Verified Aug-02.
There is an option for an English language version on this site's home page. The site also includes information on the airport's expansion plans (from the English version of the home page select "Schiphol Group", then "Press Releases"). Verified Mar-02.
Includes full details of Amtrak's services and a national route map in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Verified Nov-02.
Verified Nov-02.
Verified May-97.
Alternative URL's: http://www.detlef-zier.de and http://berlin.germany.com/dzier. This personal site includes both thumbnail and full-size versions of numerous photographs, including Anza-Borrego Desert State Park (California), Joshua Tree National Park (California), Lake Havasu City (Arizona), Palm Springs (California), Phoenix (Arizona), the Salton Sea (California) and Yuma (Arizona). Verified Jul-00.
A national clothing store chain, selling mainly jeans, etc. Verified Sep-02.
An up-market department store chain with several locations throughout the USA. The JavaScript routine on this site's home page crashed in both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator when I visited it in Sep-02. Verified Sep-02.
Verified Dec-99.
Verified Dec-99.
On the DesertUSA web site. Verified Dec-97.
An organisation for hikers of the Appalachian Trail. Verified Aug-03.
Verified Mar-02.
Fast food restaurant chain, specialising in roast beef sandwiches. A particularly excellent feature of this web site is the very complete list of the make-up of each product on the menu and ingredients page. Verified May-03.
This chain operates in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington State and the Vancouver BC area and often has the lowest prices. Their web site includes a petrol/gas station locator. Verified Aug-02.
Verified Mar-02.
This site contains a copy of this official publication for drivers. It provides an excellent guide to driving regulations in the USA. However, some rules may differ in other American states and Canadian provinces. Verified Mar-98.
When I explored this site in May-96 it had large graphics which took a long time to load, but not much other content. The maps on this site fail to load on my setup, but other users report having no problems with them. Verified Feb-02.
Verified May-97.
Verified Oct-02.
Official site. Verified May-97.
Official site. Verified Dec-01.
Alternative URL's: http://www.detlef-zier.de and http://berlin.germany.com/dzier. This personal site includes both thumbnail and full-size versions of numerous photographs, including Anza-Borrego Desert State Park (California), Joshua Tree National Park (California), Lake Havasu City (Arizona), Palm Springs (California), Phoenix (Arizona), the Salton Sea (California) and Yuma (Arizona). Verified Jul-00.
Official state tourism office site. Verified Jan-99.
National Park Service site. Verified May-97.
Verified May-97.
Verified May-97.
Verified May-97.
Verified Dec-01.
Including Arkansas State Parks. Good information but slow, and most pages fail to completely load. Verified May-97.
The US Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for civil engineering works such as dams and associated locks; this site contains information on some of these works. Verified Apr-97.
A personal site containing a travelogue. Verified Feb-98.
Information about and images of numerous artefacts from Canadian museums and archaeological sites. Verified Jul-01.
Verified Mar-02.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
See Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad
Includes the addresses and phone numbers of numerous countries' tourist offices in Britain, plus links to information of each country. Very useful. Verified Dec-97.
This site may offer some useful information, but if so then it certainly doesn't make it obvious how to access it. Verified Apr-03.
A driveaway car company. Verified Feb-03.
Automotive shop chain. Verified Sep-02.
Autumn Foliage Information
See separate section.
For maps, select the "Renter's Guide" menu option, then click on "Maps and Direction". This leads to a choice of airport terminal maps, driving maps and driving directions. Verified Feb-04.
A very useful set of descriptions of recommended scenic drives in Arizona. Verified Mar-01.
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