Convenient Tools & Resources For Your Travel!

• AAA Auto Club South offers thousands of discounts on tickets for attractions, lodging, dining, theater, sports, concerts and movies to name just a few. Join today and you may save up to 35% on attraction tickets through AAA Auto Club.

 Driving distances and Gas Prices 

• Amex ATMs in USA
• Discover ATMs in USA
• Mastercard ATMs in USA
• Visa ATMs in USA
• Currency Calculator - A quick currency converter for everything from the Dollar to the Tanzanian shilling.

• Airport Codes - Over 9,000 airports worldwide listed. Search for airport websites by U.S. city or counry.
• Arrivals & Departures - Arrival and Departure information for all commercial flights over the U.S. and Canada.
• FAA Airport Site - Check for conditions that might delay flights into or out of your selected airport.

• Florida Weather - floridatourism.com weather page.
• Weather Central - All cities in Florida
• Florida Forecast - Complete Florida weather information.

• CDC Health - Center for Disease Control provides country-specific health information, warnings and recommended precautions.
• Access Able - information and resources for mature and travelers with special needs.
• Doctors and Hospitals in Florida - Hospital and physicians in Florida.
• Travel Health - information to assist travelers and their health-care providers in deciding the vaccines, medications, and other measures necessary to prevent illness and injury during travel.

• Berlitz - If you need to brush up on your foreign language skills, this is the site to check.This is a paid service.
• Travel Industry Dictionary - use this resource to define terms often used in travel products. It will help you understand exactly what you are purchasing.

• Florida State Map - Major Florida cities and roadways.
• Florida Road Map - Highways and byways for the State of Florida
• Floridas new Interstate Exit Numbers - In January, 2002 the Florida Department of Transportation began the task of changing the exit numbers of Interstate highways from consecutive numbers to mile-post numbers. For two years the exit signs will display both numbers, but meanwhile this change may prove confusing to drivers using old maps.
• Florida Attraction Maps - These downloadable and/or printable maps of Florida attractions help you get a jump start on your day.

• Embassy.com - listings of embassies in most countries, and answers to questions on all things political, diplomatic or immigration-oriented.
• State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs - This website provides the most up-to-date information issued by the government for U.S. citizens planning on traveling abroad. Everything you need to know, from hospital locations to current warnings about unstable countries, is here.

• Amtrak - Train schedules and reservations for train travel in America.

• Time Zones - Check out this site to “convert” your departure time to your destination’s time, or vice versa.

Special tip: Access your PC from anywhere - Transfer your holiday pictures directly to your PC, access your address book and E-mails at home, while on the other side of the world.

Save yourself a lot of headaches and simply use your own PC from anywhere in the world, if you are lucky enough to have a fixed IP address you can use the free program UltraVnc, if instead you have a dynamic IP address (most ADSL connections) you can still use GoToMyPC (free trial available) both work from any Java enabled web browser.

Travel Helps:

• E-mail: Google has free 1000 Mb e-mail accounts with an expire date 9 months after your last access. Allowing you to not access your account for a while without it getting full (with junk mail). It will also allow you to store a whole bunch of scanned in documents (passport/tickets etc.), just e-mail them to your self and print them out when necessary. For now by invitation only but these have become easy to get, just search for Google invitation.
• Photos: Consider using a digital camera when traveling, flash cards are very durable and as far as I know unaffected by the x-ray equipment in airports, plus you can easily send copies of pictures home burn them to a CD or display them while on the road using one of the "free online photo albums."
• Handy: Dental floss, small light and strong, Floss your teeth, repair shoes, clothes, hang up a mosquito net, use as clothesline etc.
• Handy: Glue, go to a hardware store and get a stick of translucent hot melt glue When you want to use it heat the end with a flame (match, lighter). Then dab it on. This stuff glues anything together.
• Hot: When travelling to hot countries and you keep your papers in a hidden pouch close to your body, make sure to put them in a ziplock bag. Otherwise your sweat will make the ink run through and loosen any stuck-in visas. Learned through painful experience.
• Smelly and wet: Antiperspirant also works great on the feet, gets rid of the smell and keeps them drier.
• Latch on: Keep one of those rocks climbing karabiner with your bag. Allows you to hook your bag to a table, chair, overhead storage even your belt, and effectively stops the snatch and runs.
• Beware: Do not store credit cards or anything else with a magnetic strip close to your cell phone, the magnetic field can erase the strip.
• Light!: Take one of the new waterproof mini key chain led lights, small light and will last forever, combine two tips and get a carabiner led flashlight.
  
• Second wallet: pack a second wallet with a little money and a few credit card look-alikes in the obvious place, to keep the muggers happy and hotel staff. You might even put a sweet little note inside, if you know what I mean.