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B. Dalton
I'm informed that this bookshop chain, seen in most larger shopping malls, is a division of Barnes And Noble. It doesn't appear to have its own web site. All the obvious possibilities seem to lead to other organisations' sites, mainly search engines.
Includes information on various British Airports, including Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted. Verified May-04.
Associated with the Village Inn chain. Verified Mar-02.
The organisation responsible for public transport in the Baltimore, Maryland area. The site includes schedules and fares but I couldn't spot any obvious means of obtaining maps. Verified Apr-03.
Verified Apr-97.
Useful information. Verified Oct-99.
Bookshop chain. Verified Sep-02.
Same content as the other Barnes and Noble site. Verified Sep-02.
Different content to the other Barnes And Noble sites. Verified Sep-02.
Official site. Useful information. Verified Feb-01.
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.
Verified Mar-02.
Clothing store chain. Verified Sep-02.
This personal site contains some useful and interesting information about the San Francisco Bay Area and California in general. Verified Feb-99.
Also includes links to information on Quinte's Isle/Prince Edward Peninsula/Prince Edward Country, Ontario. Verified Apr-99.
Verified Jan-99.
The community web site of a small town on the north shore of Long Island. Verified Mar-00.
This site has full details of programme schedules and programmes but I couldn't find any information to say what BBC America is or how to receive it. I assume it is a television channel broadcast in the USA and showing BBC programmes. Verified Jul-02.
This page lists programmes. For stations and frequencies, use the "Frequency Charts" link in the righthand sidebar, then specify the country, state, city, station, date and times. Verified Jul-02.
An excellent personal site with a wealth of useful information. Verified May-00.
BC Ferries operate various passenger and car ferry routes in the area of Vancouver and Vancouver Island, British Columbia. This site has full details of their services including timetables and fares. See also Washington State Ferries and Coho Ferry (the latter being the car ferry between Port Angeles, Washington State and Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia). Both URL's lead to the same content. Both URL's verified Jan-04.
Information on historical sites in British Columbia. Verified Feb-00.
BC Rail are one of the companies who operate railway services in British Columbia. Verified Jan-98.
Beacon are part of the Valero group which also includes Ultramar Diamond Shamrock. Verified Aug-04.
L.L. Bean is a sporting equipment and clothing supplier. This site contains a lot of information on the National Parks and similar areas. Verified Aug-97.
A downloadable bridge construction simulation game. Verified Dec-98.
A tour of the US government hosted by a cartoon of Benjamin Franklin. There are separate sections for children of different ages. This would probably also be a very useful introduction to the subject for foreigners. Verified Mar-02.
Verified Mar-02.
Electronics store chain, selling audio, video and computer equipment, etc. Verified Sep-02.
This chain operates mainly in southern and mid-western states. Verified Mar-99.
Verified Mar-02.
Verified Apr-97.
This excellent site includes photographs. Note that the directory name in the URL is spelt "souteast", not "southeast". Verified Feb-98.
I'm informed that some of this chain's locations sell passes to National Parks. Verified Sep-02.
Big Bay is on the northern (Lake Superior) lakeshore of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, northwest of Marquette. The Big Bay web site has a reciprocal link arrangement with this site, so please give it a visit. Verified Nov-06.
Verified Mar-01.
Clothing store chain. Verified Sep-02.
Discount store chain. Verified Sep-02.
Chain of tyre replacement centres. Verified Sep-02.
National Park Service site. Verified May-97.
Verified May-97.
National Park Service site. Verified May-97.
Excellent photographs and text. Verified May-97.
This company offers tours of Boyden Cavern near Kings Canyon National Park, Moaning Cavern close to Vallecito, California Cavern near San Andreas, Black Chasm near Volcano, and Sutter Gold Mine in Sutter Creek, all in California. Verified Jan-04.
This official site provides full answers to any questions which anyone interested in seeing a performance of the Passion Play might have. Verified Jan-98.
This hamburger and chicken fast food chain has 75 locations across New Mexico. Verified Mar-02.
Submarine sandwich restaurant chain. Includes a location guide (use the official two letter state abbreviations when searching). Verified Mar-02.
Official web site. Verified Jul-03.
A national chain of department stores. Verified Sep-02.
A personal site featuring a large number of shareware/freeware TrueType fonts, including Blue Highway which closely resembles the font used on US road signs and highway marker shields. Verified Dec-99.
National Park Service site. Verified May-97.
National Park Service site. Verified May-97.
An organisation responsible for public transport in New York City, including subway (underground railway) and bus services. This site contains plenty of useful information. There are also other subway systems in New York City, such as PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson). The NYMTA system includes the subway lines originally constructed by BMT (Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation), IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) and IND (Independent) and still known by those names. Verified Nov-02.
Verified Mar-02.
Bodie is a preserved ghost town, on California State Highway 270 north of Mono Lake. Verified May-04.
Fast food (or semi-cafeteria?). Chicken and biscuits. Locations in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New York State, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Verified Mar-02.
This site covers both the Bonanza and the Ponderosa chains, and includes a location list. Verified Mar-02.
Verified Jan-01.
Verified Mar-02.
Bookshop chain. Verified Sep-02.
This web page has an animated GIF file showing the expansion of the US and the development of US state borders. Be sure to set your browser to show animated GIF files, otherwise you will only see the first frame. Verified Sep-03.
Besides information on the town of Borrego Springs, this site also includes some useful information about Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Verified Dec-99.
Verified Dec-99.
This department store chain has locations in the mid-Atlantic states: Delaware, Maryland, New
Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Verified Sep-02.
Verified Mar-02.
Verified Mar-02.
The organisation responsible for public transport in the Boston, Massachusetts area. The site includes maps, schedules and fares. Boston had the first subway system in the USA. Verified Apr-03.
This web page has an animated GIF file showing the expansion of the US and the development of US state borders. Be sure to set your browser to show animated GIF files, otherwise you will only see the first frame. Verified Sep-03.
This company offers tours of Boyden Cavern near Kings Canyon National Park, Moaning Cavern close to Vallecito, California Cavern near San Andreas, Black Chasm near Volcano, and Sutter Gold Mine in Sutter Creek, all in California. Verified Jan-04.
When I visited this site in Aug-02 it failed in Netscape Navigator but worked in Internet Explorer. Verified Aug-02.
Verified May-97.
This car and passenger high speed ferry service will run across Lake Ontario between Charlotte, near Rochester, New York State and Toronto, Ontario. Service is scheduled to start in May 2004. The web site has full details of schedules and fares and includes the facility to book online. Verified Mar-04.
Bridges
See separate section.
An interesting if somewhat superficial exploration of skyscrapers, bridges and tunnels. Many of the examples are in the USA and Canada. Verified Mar-00.
A very interesting list of many notable railroad bridges in the USA. Verified Jun-04.
An excellent personal site with detailed information and good photographs. Verified Feb-00.
A very useful online database of information on major bridges in the USA, Canada and other countries. The site's creator hopes to eventually provide details of all sixty or so bridges in the USA and Canada with spans of over 1000 feet. Verified Feb-99.
Includes information on various British Airports, including Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted. Verified May-04.
Verified Jul-02.
This site includes an extremely useful accommodation database which can be searched by type of accommodation (motel, campsite, etc), location (town name) and upper price limit. Verified Nov-97.
A search engine for British Columbia related web sites. Verified Mar-99.
Verified May-00.
Verified May-00.
Details of routes and schedules. Verified Nov-03.
Verified Dec-97.
Information on historical sites in British Columbia. Verified Feb-00.
Verified Dec-97.
Official site. Verified Feb-99.
Official site. Verified Mar-99.
Unofficial site with lots of information. Verified May-97.
Unofficial site with lots of information. Verified May-97.
Unofficial site with lots of information. Verified May-97.
Unofficial site with lots of information. Verified May-97.
Unofficial site; lots of information. Verified May-97.
Unofficial site; lots of information. Verified May-97.
Unofficial site; lots of information. Verified May-97.
Unofficial site; lots of information. Verified May-97.
An excellent personal site with a wealth of useful information. Verified May-00.
Verified Apr-97.
Official site. Verified Feb-99.
Official Tourism British Columbia site. Verified Feb-00.
This web site provides a facility for requesting printed brochures promoting various regions of the USA to be sent to your conventional postal address. You can choose the brochures you wish to receive from a large list, with a maximum of twenty-five brochures per request. If you live outside the USA, be sure to enter a hyphen (-) in the state/province box, otherwise your request will be rejected and you will have to specify which brochures you want all over again. Also remember to specify your own country in your postal address. Verified Feb-02.
A member of the Ivy League. Verified Aug-99.
A personal and in places quite amusing travelogue of a trip with a campervan from Denver to Alaska. Verified Dec-98.
Parks Canada site. Verified May-97.
Verified May-97.
"The Bruce Trail Association is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the development and maintenance of over 800 kilometres of main trails and an additional 200km of side trails along the Niagara Escarpment between Niagara Falls, Ontario (Queenston Heights) and Tobermory, Ontario (Little Tub Harbour)." Tobermory is at the northern tip of the Bruce Peninsula. Verified Mar-02.
The organisation responsible for public transport in the St Louis, Missouri area. If this site contains any useful information, it certainly isn't obvious from the home page. Verified Apr-03.
Verified Apr-98.
Both URL's lead to the same content. Both URL's verified Feb-04.
Verified Jan-99.
Verified Jan-99.
Verified Dec-97.
Verified Dec-97.
This site has press releases, news and details of forthcoming events in the town. Verified Jul-99.
An interesting if somewhat superficial exploration of skyscrapers, bridges and tunnels. Many of the examples are in the USA and Canada. Verified Mar-00.
This organisation is responsible for the production of banknotes in the USA (the US Mint is responsible for coin production). This site includes full details of US banknotes past and present, plus an excellent FAQ page. Verified May-02.
Verified Mar-03.
The BLM administers vast tracts of public land, mainly in the west, including many areas and facilities open the public for recreational use. Verified Feb-04.
The US Bureau Of Reclamation is responsible for many aspects of water resource management in the West, including numerous dams, hydroelectric schemes and water distribution systems. Some USBR facilities are open to the public. Their web site has plenty of information about the USBR dams. Verified May-04.
Includes a store location guide (use the official two letter state abbreviations when searching). Verified Mar-02.
This chain of clothing shops sells coats and jackets. Verified Sep-02.
Verified Sep-99.
A very useful list of links to the web sites of various bus lines, railways, ferries, airlines, etc. Verified Jul-02.
Verified Oct-00.
Frank Buykx lives in Norfolk, England and recently retired. In the summer of 2001 he walked across America from Washington DC to the Golden Gate Bridge. This personal web site features his diary, the route details, Frank's interviews on Radio Norfolk and some newspaper articles on his epic walk. Verified Sep-01.
A printed magazine about backroads in the USA. Verified Jul-03.
Verified Jul-03.
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