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Find a Church While You’re on the Road: If you’re looking for a church to attend while on the road, this is an excellent source.
www.beliefnet.com
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The World’s Wackiest Tourist Attractions: This is really a fun site to visit. If you’ve ever wondered where you could see things like the
National
Museum
of Funeral Homes, or where the world’s largest frying pan is, this is the place to find it. There is an endless list of the world’s truly wackiest tourist attractions for kids of all ages to find at www.roadsideamerica.com so don’t be a party pooper!
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The World’s Largest Roadside Attractions: View a collection of larger than life roadside attractions from all over
North America
. This is another fun site to spend some time with, after all, who wouldn’t want to see the world’s largest fish, or bison, or donut? And many of these attractions are close to where you’re already headed to anyway!
www.wlra.us
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Watch It Made in the
U.S.A.
! : First, start searching for a book by this title. The authors are Karen Axelrod & Bruce Brumberg. It will give you a list of almost 400 pages of manufactures that offer either free or low cost factory tours that are family and/or school field-trip friendly. What a great way to keep the kids (of all ages) interested on vacation! Hey, if you liked visiting Hershey Park when visiting in Pennsylvania, then who’s to say the kids and you wouldn’t enjoy watching crayons being made in nearby Easton at the Binney & Smith plant or watch how a big Mack Truck is built in close by Macungie? You can also get a lot of good ideas on this nationwide at www.factorytoursusa.com |
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Mile by Mile Guide to
America
’s Highways: If you want to know services are available at any freeway exit in
America
, then this is the place to look. Search by location and road, and you’ll find it all.
www.milebymile.com |
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Discover
America
: A listing of State Tourism Offices. Use this site to order free vacation information. Get maps, travel guides, attraction brochures and much more -all free from all 50 states and the
District of Columbia
.
www.pueblo.gsa.gov |
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Special Events Calendar:
If you would like some great travel ideas on places to go, things to do, then make sure you check-out this Link located on the Rental Department’s Website Home Page. Covering a variety of events like NASCAR races, food festivals, great football weekends, special holiday programs and much more. There’s things to do and see for campers of all ages all year long! www.lightninrv.com |
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Lost
America
: This site is something that’s just a little different, but a great website to visit. See a nocturnal American captured on film, after the sun sets. The results are stunning & well worth your time, and you just might pick-up some great ideas and tips on taking photos too.
www.lostamerica.com |
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Road Food How to Find the Very Best: When you’re tired of cooking, and of the same old fast food or national chains, and want to find that great local ‘hole-in-the-wall’ place that all the locals eat at, this is the place to find it. Check out everything from great local diners, celestial barbecue, and all around 4-star pigouts galore. Go on their merchandise link to check-out some a great variety of some of the best cookbooks you’ll ever put your hands on.
www.roadfood.com |
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National Traffic & Road Closure Information: This is an excellent site to use with the Trip Planner.
Connect with over 14 traffic condition sites, plus all 50 State DOT’s and 12 weather related sites. There are local, regional and national links. Plan around those construction and bad weather sites that slow you down.
www.fhwa.dot.gov/trafficinfo/index.htm |
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Maps and Driving Directions: Mapquest for planning your trip if desired. One thing to remember, Mapquest, or any other service of this type, doesn’t always take you the shortest way, nor does it tell you if there are road conditions that can be a problem, so use this site with the site listed above to insure having the fewest amount of problems as possible.
www.MapQuest.com |
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More RV Travel Links Than You Can Count! :
On this site, you will find one of the largest collection of RV travel links I’ve ever found. You can go from travel magazines to RV-ing in New Zealand to Finding Parts to Road Services to Travel Employment and much more. This is definitely a site that you can spend some time with! www.rv-links.com |
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Road Trip
America
: Life is a journey...take the scenic route! This site is operated by the authors of the Road Trip America books, and will give you a little of everything. Some great places to visit, some great things to do on the way there, some different ways to get there, a little RV humor, driving tips, RV info, and much more.
www.roadtripamerica.com |
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Canadian Travel |
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For those planning to visit our Northern Neighbors, here are some great travel links just for Canadian Travel
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Canada On-Line:
This site connects you to a tremendous list of Canadian Parks, general travel information, Customs Requirements, their 14 different Departments of Tourism and much more. http://canadaonline.about.com/od/Canadian_Travel_Tourism.htm |
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The Government of Canada’s Official Information Website:
Any time you plan to plan to cross any country’s border, one of the smartest things you can do, is know what you can and cannot do in that country. In other words, travel smart…be prepared…and thus you avoid an accidental problems. http://www.cic.gc.ca/English/visit/ |
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The Canadian Tourism Commission:
This is Canada’s official travel guide and has it all. You can find more things to see and do then there are room to print…ski tips, festivals, special events, travel tips, maps…you name it, and it’s there! http://www.canada.travel/splash.en-us.html
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Canada’s Weather Network & Road Conditions:
Not only will this site give you up to date weather conditions, you can find information on road & highway conditions as well. As mentioned above with the U.S. DOT site, use this with MapQuest to ensure trouble-free travel.
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/ |
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