Space Adventures: going where no tour company has gone before-on adventures previously reserved for astraonauts.
Space Camp and Aviation Challenge: Official Web site of the US Space and Rocket Center.Where the sky is the limit.
Geographic Expedition: Operates worldwide, offering a sensationally varied roster of overland tours, walking trips, treks and expeditionary vayages to world's most beguiling and "impossible to reach on one's own" places.
Barclay International Group: Those who prefer to be master of their own house. Barclay collects informtion on hundreds of upscale rental properties throughout Europe. Rental vary in size from studio apartments to large city flats. Some come with staffs and chefs.
Airlines on the Web: : is linked to nearly 500 airline sites. Although discount airfare sites such as Expedia.com and travelocity.com have powerful search engines that enable them to cull the universe of fares, it often pays to check an airline's own web site for better deals. Companion fares for first class and business travelers often pop up on these sites but not on the omnibus reservation services.
Afloat in France: For those who prefer a slow boat, Afloat in France books fully crewed luxury hotel barges that course along the French countryside through canals and rivers.Rooms can be booked individually, and entire boats are available for charter.
Duhe OnLine: Charter boats of evvery type can be found. Duhe is a liting service that links to dozens of charters. Some of the outfits listed have their own Web sites, while others make do with a tally of their boat's specs and a telephone number.
American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners: This site is helping travelers hook up withe individual train-car owners who charter their trains to travelers. andhas links to owners of train-cars that dates back to the 1920s. Many of the Web pages have a simple charm to them, with the look of a railroad travel brochure circa 1060. When the home page loads, One hears the chug of a steam engines and the clang of a bell.
Driven Image: an international booking service for luxury car rentals. The siteacts as a virtual showroom for the world's dream cars, all available for daily rates. Driven Image has lots of L cars-Land Rover, Lamborghini, Lexus, and Lotus-plus the rquisite numbers of Fs, Js, Ms, Ps, and R-Rs.
Zagat Restaurant Guide: delivers the dish on more than 20,000 restaurants, bistros, cafes, coffee-houses, diners, hotels and takeout joints in the city of your choices. For a $29.95 fee, the Zaga restaurant guides for major USA and European restaurants can reside in one's handheld, with the listings ready to be searched and sorted according to one's taste. Just enter your preference.
AvantGo:
you can download virtually limitless leads on cultural events and nightlife on your PDA with a subscription to AvantGo. Simply connect the handheld to a computer with a Web connection and press a button, and updated information lands on the smaller computer.
Metro: For those going to cities where traveling by subway is a must, the astonishingly exhaustive Metro is available as a free download. Once on your handheld, it details the routes and traveling times for 140 different metro rail systems and calculates the shortest route between any two points on any of them.
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Pass an interesting sight you didn't know was was along the way-perhaps a tomb, monument, or historic house? Find out about it with the portable version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica for wireless handheld. Plug in keywords, and the service beams the relevant article from the giant reference work.
Map Quest:
World atlas, road maps, live traffic reports, yellow&white pages, travel guides, and city guides
Expedia.com: maps and driving directions
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