Quick Reference Guide: Travel

One of the newest hip food blogs and sources of what is happening on the food scene in many cities and around different holiday and events.

Blog that covers the Los Angeles restaurant and eateries scene.

Known as a definitive high end but increasingly diverse reviewer of restaurants and now including hotels, nightlife and attractions.

Results of daily surveys of more than 60,000 self-serve gas stations in the U.S. Find national, state, metropolitan area prices of regular, premium and diesel. Also lists price yesterday, a month, and a year ago, and highest recorded prices.

Compare vehicles (1985-present) by fuel cost and pollution, search by class or manufacturer, or by miles per gallon. Includes gasoline price page with links to national and regional fuel prices, vehicle safety, hybrids and alternative fuels.

Links to 170 gas price information web sites that help consumers find low gasoline prices. Browse by neighborhood or search for prices by ZIP code. Information is member-supplied.

New car prices & used car values.

From the Introductory page, link to individual bus route maps and schedules as well as a system map, customer information, and information about other transit systems.

New data sources provided by Open Street Map and Google now capture transportation networks with unprecedented detail and precision. Here we develop and validate a map that quantifies travel time to cities for 2015 at a spatial resolution of approximately one by one kilometre by integrating ten global-scale surfaces that characterize factors affecting human movement rates and 13,840 high-density urban centres within an established geospatial-modelling framework. Our results highlight disparities in accessibility relative to wealth as 50.9% of individuals living in low-income settings (concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa) reside within an hour of a city compared to 90.7% of individuals in high-income settings. By further triangulating this map against socioeconomic datasets, we demonstrate how access to urban centres stratifies the economic, educational, and health status of humanity.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-cities-globe.html#jCp

Brief reports from travellers who have slept in airports around the world, with ratings, photographs, descriptions of amenities (or lack of them). Browsable by location.

From the U.S. State Department, Bureau of Consular Affairs. Warnings issued for potential threats to U.S. citizens in a given country.

traveler's health site.

If interested in reducing costs when traveling this site lists where you can find a free couch to sleep on or if you are willing to do some chores or provide company in exchange for a place to stay.

Full text of the most recent volumes of the Country Studies/Area Studies series from the Library of Congress under the sponsorship of the Department of the Army. Includes photographs, maps, charts.

List of thousands of American and Canadian restaurants that serve food that is produced in ways not harmful to the environment.

Guide books publisher with selective information about locations, accommodations, restaurants, local culture.

Addresses, phone numbers, and names of heads of foreign consulates in the United States. Browse by name of country. From the U.S. State Department.

A collection of links maintained by the University of Michigan Documents Center.

Guidebooks with selective information from commercial published series.

Comprehensive collection of travel websites indexed and categorized on all aspects of travel.

Guidebooks with selective information from commercial published series.

Practical advice for navigating Europe and other parts of the world by train.

The place to go when things go bad and you cannot get satisfaction - this site will help determine how to advocate for travelers having difficulty with transportation providers, or any aspect of trip planning, tickets, etc.

Accommodations, Lodging, and Information.

List of charity-travel opportunities that caters to special interests.

Another organization that pairs travelers interested in doing volunteer activities abroad.

Annual survey, with profiles of all countries and territories from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

Forecasts for Los Angeles/Oxnard area.

Information for the Western United States, including historical climate information.

Weather information searchable by city or zip code.

From the University of Michigan. Major source of weather information. Provides access to thousands of forecasts, images, and the Net's largest collection of weather links.