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Subject Index

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Start Here

• Introduction

• FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

• Site structure - some hints on how to find information on this site

Essentials

• Checklist Of Actions To Take - Before booking, before departure, at the airport, while picking up a rental car, etc. This page also acts as a summary of essential hints with links to other pages on this site which offer more detailed information.

• Car Rental In The USA And Canada

• Cost Of A Holiday To The USA And/Or Canada

• Driving In The USA And Canada

• Emergency Services Telephone Number (911)

• Favourite National Parks, National Monuments, Scenic Roads, State Parks, Provincial Parks, etc

• Money

• Motels In The USA And Canada

• National Forests In The USA

• National Monuments And Other National Park Service Areas In The USA

• National Parks In The USA And Canada

• Passports, Visas, The US Visa Waiver Programme, Immigration And Customs

• Photographs

• Provincial Parks In Canada

• Safety

• Scenic Roads In The USA And Canada

• State Parks In The USA

• Style Of Holiday

Full Subject List

• Abbreviations Used In The USA And Canada

• Accommodation

• Accommodation, First Night

• Additional Sources Of Information

• Agencies Of Government Responsible For Recreation Areas

• Airfares

• Airlines

• Airports

• Ambiguities To Be Aware Of

• American English To British English Dictionary

• Amusing, Interesting And Mysterious Place Names In The USA And Canada

• Auto Touring - Scenic Roads

• Autumn Foliage

• Bargains

• Biographies

• BLM (Bureau Of Land Management)

• Booking Hints

• Books

• Borders Between States And Provinces - Trivia

• Bridges

• British English And American English

• Bureau Of Land Management (BLM)

• Buildings, Tall

• Campervans

• Camping

• Camping Cabins

• Campsites

• Canada - Is Canada The Same As America?

• Canadian Government Agencies And Departments Responsible For Recreation Areas

• Canadian Provincial Parks

• Canals

• Car Ferries

• Car Rental

• Car Rental Booking Hints

• Car Rental Costs

• Caves

• Checklist Of Actions To Take - Before booking, before departure, at the airport, while picking up a rental car, etc

• Cities' Nicknames

• Civil Engineering Structures - Bridges

• Civil Engineering Structures - Dams

• Civil Engineering Structures - Seven Man-Made Wonders Of The USA And Canada

• Civil Engineering Structures - Tall Buildings And Towers

• Civil Engineering Structures - Tunnels

• Climate

• Clothes Washing

• Clothing Size Conversions

• College System

• Compatibility Of Electrical And Electronic Devices Etc Between The UK And The USA

• Conversions For Weights And Measures - including a conversion chart for petrol (gas) prices in US cents per US gallon to UK pence per litre

• Cost Of A Holiday To The USA And/Or Canada

• Costs: Airfares

• Costs: Car Rental Costs

• Costs: Entrance Fees For National Parks, Etc

• Costs: Motel Rates

• Costs: Petrol (Gas) Prices

• Costs: Restaurant Prices

• Credit Cards

• Cultural Differences Between Britain And The USA - Including Typicalville, USA

• Currency

• Customs, Passports, Visas, The US Visa Waiver Programme And Immigration

• Customs (Cultural Differences Between Britain And The USA)

• Dams

• Day Drives

• Daylight Saving Time (Summer Time)

• Departments Of Government Responsible For Recreation Areas

• Deserts

• Dictionary - American English To British English

• Differences Between Britain And The USA - Compatibility Of Electrical And Electronic Devices Etc Between The UK And The USA

• Differences Between Britain And The USA - Including Typicalville, USA

• Differences Between The USA And Canada - Is Canada The Same As America?

• Discounts And Other Perks For Senior Citizens

• Driving

• Eateries

• Educational System

• Electrical And Electronic Devices Etc: Compatibility Between The UK And The USA

• Emergency Services Telephone Number (911)

• English - American English To British English Dictionary

• Entrance Fees For National Parks, Etc

• Essential Hints Summary - Checklist

• Exchange Rates

• Exotic Vegetation Found In The USA And Canada But Not In Europe

• External Links To Other Web Sites

• External Links To Other Web Sites - Reciprocal Links

• Fall Foliage

• FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

• Fast Food

• Favourite National Parks, National Monuments, Scenic Roads, State Parks, Provincial Parks, etc

• Feasible One Day Journeys

• Federal Government Agencies And Departments Responsible For Recreation Areas

• Federal Land

• Ferries

• First Night Accommodation

• Fish And Wildlife Service

• Flight Booking Hints

• Flights And Flying

• Flora and
• Fauna Found In The USA And Canada But Not In Europe

• Food

• Forest Service

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

• Frontier Counties

• Gas (Petrol) Prices

• Geology

• Government Agencies And Departments Responsible For Recreation Areas

• Government Owned Land

• Graphics (Photographs)

• GST/PST/HST Sales Tax Refund (Canada)

• Highest Roads In North America

• Highway Bridges

• Highway Tunnels

• Highways, Historical And Named

• Highways, Scenic

• Hiking Trails, Long Distance

• Historical Events

• Historical Figures

• Historical Places

• Historical Trails And Roads

• History

• HST/GST/PST Sales Tax Refund (Canada)

• Images (Photographs)

• Immigration, Passports, Visas, The US Visa Waiver Programme And Customs

• Indians (North American Indians/Native Americans)

• Insurance

• Introduction

• Islands

• Jargon Used In The Travel Trade

• Journeys Feasible In One Day

• Lakes

• Language - American English To British English Dictionary

• Laundry

• Letters (Mail, Post)

• Links To Other Web Sites

• Links To Other Web Sites - Reciprocal Links

• Lodging

• Long Distance Hiking Trails

• Mail (Letters, Post)

• Man-Made Wonders Of The USA And Canada

• Maps

• Mason-Dixon Line

• Miscellaneous Items

• Money

• More Sources Of Information

• Motels

• Motel Rates

• Motorhomes

• Mountains And Mountain Ranges

• Music

• Named Trails And Roads

• National Conservation Areas

• National Forests

• National Monuments And Other US National Park Service Areas

• National Parks

• National Parks (Etc) Entrance Fees

• National Wildlife Refuges

• Native Americans (North American Indians)

• Natural Bridges And Arches

• Natural Wonders Of The USA And Canada

• Nicknames Of Cities And States

• North America Indians (Native Americans)

• Odds And Ends

• Other Sources Of Information

• Passports, Visas, The US Visa Waiver Programme, Immigration And Customs

• People

• Percentage Of Government Owned Land In Each State, Province And Territory

• Personal Safety

• Petrol (Gas) Prices

• Phones And Phone Numbers

• Photographs

• Pictures

• Place Names

• Post (Letters, Mail)

• Practical Differences Between Britain And The USA - Including Typicalville, USA

• Prices: Airfares

• Prices: Car Rental Costs

• Prices: Entrance Fees For National Parks, Etc

• Prices: Motel Rates

• Prices: Petrol (Gas) Prices

• Prices: Restaurant Prices

• Pronunciation Guide

• Province Borders Trivia

• Provincial Parks In Canada

• PST/GST/HST Sales Tax Refund (Canada)

• Public Holidays

• Public Land

• Public Transport

• Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

• Railway Bridges

• Railway Journeys, Scenic

• Railway Tunnels

• Reciprocal Links To Other Web Sites

• Recreation Areas - Government Agencies And Departments Responsible For

• Recreational Vehicles (RV's), I.E. Motorhomes

• Region Names

• Restaurant Prices

• Restaurants

• Rivers

• Road Bridges

• Road Tunnels

• Roads, Historical And Named

• Roads, Scenic

• RV's (Recreational Vehicles, I.E. Motorhomes)

• Safety

• Sales Taxes

• Scenic Railway Journeys

• Scenic Roads

• School System

• Security (Personal Safety)

• Senior Citizen Discounts And Other Perks

• Seven Wonders Of The USA And Canada

• Shops

• Skyscrapers

• Smoking

• Sources Of Information

• Spanish Place Names

• Sport

• Stamps (For Letters Or Postcards)

• Standard Time

• State Borders Trivia

• State Names And Nicknames

• State Parks In The USA

• Style Of Holiday

• Summary Of Essential Hints - Checklist

• Sunrise and Sunset Times

• Summer Time (Daylight Saving Time)

• Tall Buildings

• Taxes (Sales Taxes)

• Telephones And Telephone Numbers

• Test Your Knowledge (Quiz)

• Time - Daylight Saving Time (Summer Time)

• Times of Sunrise and Sunset

• Time Zones

• Tourist Attractions

• Tourist Railways

• Towers

• Trails, Historical

• Train Journeys, Scenic

• Translations - American English To British English

• Travel Trade Jargon

• Travellers' Cheques

• Tunnels

• Typicalville, USA

• Units Of Measure Conversions

• University System

• US Government Agencies And Departments Responsible For Recreation Areas

• Vegetation Found In The USA And Canada But Not In Europe

• Visas, The US Visa Waiver Programme, Passports, Immigration And Customs

• Visiting Canada From The USA

• Visiting The USA From Canada

• Walking Trails, Long Distance

• Washing Clothes

• Waterfalls

• Waterways

• Weather - Climate

• Weather - Extreme Weather Safety Precautions

• Weights And Measures Conversions - including a conversion chart for petrol (gas) prices in US cents per US gallon to UK pence per litre

• Wildlife Refuges

• Wildlife Sighting Possibilities

• Winter Time

• Wonders Of The USA And Canada

Help Please!

• Questions which I'd appreciate receiving answers to