Travel Tips

A few resources we've found handy when traveling ... or planning to!

Currency Conversion - international money exchange rates

World Time Zones - also handy for avoiding calling when someone might be sleeping by noticing where it's daylight on the planet! :-)

Voltage Conversion - international electrical standards for voltages, frequencies, adaptors, etc.

Maps and directions by Mapquest and Google Maps

Zoom in to wherever on this planet you're interested with Google Earth

Topographic Maps by USGS

Weather by Accuweather

A great tutorial on how GPS works by Trimble (for those that want to know)

A neat collection of world maps that show stretched countries proportional to various statistics... thanks to my world-traveling niece for sending this link!