Cool
(and useful!) Travel Links
Cool
(and useful!) Travel Links
On this page, you'll find a regularly updated list of travel links
we
think you will find useful. If you want a link to your particular page
included,
email airhitch-at-airhitch-dot-org*
with a description of your site.
* To see why we don't use the at-sign or dot in giving you our email addresses, click here.
| Backpacking around Europe, or thinking/dreaming about it? Here are two sites to visit, for all kinds of advice and help in attaining the experience of a lifetime:www.backpackeurope.com, and www.thebackpacker.net!! | |
| Need to get from anywhere
in Europe to somewhere else in Europe by air? Check out attitudeTravel,
which inventories all the lowest-cost possibilities! |
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| Need to find places to
"crash" (sleep for the night) while on the road -- in exchange for hosting people at YOUR
place when THEY are on the road? Check out the following
sites: www.globalfreeloaders.com www.couchsurfing.com www.hospitalityclub.org |
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| Looking for work while
traveling (in exchange for "room & board")? Visit www.workaway.info! |
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| For European inter-city bus fares and routes, courtesy of Eurolines, click here. | |
| And of course, Greyhound takes you there and back throughout the US. | |
| Volunteers for Peace now offers over 1000 international workcamps in 70 countries promoting peace through community service and awareness. | |
| AMERICAN Passport Express expedite renewal and first time applications for United States passports. If you need a US passport in a hurry, or even just don't want to deal with the hassle, they can help! | |
| Hitchhiking/ridesharing in Europe made
easy! Surf on to the German mitfahrzentralen pages (English language links on
the right, though the English is somewhat fractured), the French autostop page, or the Italian autostop.it page! A
good general European site for ridesharing is BugRide. If you're headed to eastern
Europe, check out the Yahoo
hitchhiking discussion group! For hitching all over the world, as
well as a broad historico-philosophical perspective on the art and
science of hitchhiking, check out Digihitch and/or Compartir! And
then there are these extremely practical links: http://www.hitchhikers.org/ --
a ride-exchange for hitchers in Europe; AlloStop, a
Canada(Qubec)-based worldwide ridesharing site; philcox.homestead.com/hitch.html
-- a how-to on hitching around Europe; A whole COURSE on hitchhiking:
"Hitchhiking 101"! Including: Hitchhiking
Basics Introduction to Hitchhiking; Hitchhiking
Maps Plan Your Trip Intelligently; Making
a Sign How to Make a Good Hitchhiking Sign; Where
to Stand Finding a Place to Hitchhike from; Hitchhiking
Behavior How to Get a Ride. And finally, three sites with advice
and help for Wimmin Hitchers: http://www.hermail.net/;
http://www.journeywoman.com;
http://www.oculartravel.com/women.htm#1
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| Want a taste of travel of a different flavor? By all means, try the Green Tortoise. Zillions of satisfied customers! | |
| If you like trains, you can ride the
rails around Europe, unlimitedly, for a fixed period of time, at a flat
rate, with the famous EURAILPASS®. |
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| Australia bound? Australia The Final Word is the most comprehensive way to learn about Australia, plan your travel there, book your adventures, accommodation, motorhome etc. | |
| For current info on flying as an air courier, check out Air Courier Flights, a directory guide ($15) from Albertsen's Adventure Travel. Complete contact info for all 21 courier companies in the Americas, that allow passengers. Over 100 flights to 30+ countries are listed. | |
| Interested in alternatives to mass, "enclave" tourism? When you go somewhere, do you like to become part of the fabric of the dominant culture, instead of remaining isolated and segmented from it? (Translation: instead of staying in a hotel full of your compatriots and lounging around the pool, do you like to go into town and get the "feel" of what life is like for people who LIVE in the place you're visiting?) If this description fits you, or you fit it, check out "Transitions Abroad", a great site and printzine for people who want to work in, study in, travel to, and EXPERIENCE at a very "nitty-gritty" level cultures other than their own! | |
| Check out "Travel Impulse", another high-quality print "read" with many insights, both of a cultural and personal-economics nature, into alternatives to standard package tourism! | |
KARMABUMS -- www.karmabum.com Camping and budget travel in Europe...the best collection of European campground links on the 'Net! The right place, the right time and the right attitude -- you can get there from here! |
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| For a great guide to hostels worldwide, check out hostelz.com -- a site maintained by a recent Airhitcher! |