Links
We found a lot of these sites to be very useful in planning our world trip. Check 'em out, they might be helpful to you, too.
World Travel Links
Round-the World Travel Guide Great online resource -- a good place to start!
Lonely Planet Online The world-famous travel guides, on line. Good site!
PlanetRider Excellent, well-organized travel site
City.net Excite's guide to major cities, with country info, too
BudgetTravel.com A pretty basic site, with some good external links
Round-the-World Airfare Links
Airtreks.com San Francisco-based travel agent specializing
in RTW tickets. We got our tickets here, and
we can't recommend them highly enough!
Courteous & knowledgeable agents, with
prices that can't be beat. Check out their online
custom "TripBuilder" application.
Other World Traveler Homepage Links
Path Less Traveled An excellent site by David and Kelly from
Chicago. Many of the same places we
are visiting. Worth checking out!
Where is Evan? A rock climbing software engineer
takes some time off to see the world.
Funny, I used to work with this guy!
The Great Out There Tour Really nicely done site from a '94-'95
grand world tour taken by Sean Connolly
El Nino World Tour 1998 Interesting and humorous travelogue
by a couple that visited 19 countries in
14 months.
Travel Outfitting Companies
REI This great recreational gear store has an
excellent online store, too. You name it,
they got it -- top quality brands only.
L.L. Bean Great travel clothing at the right prices.
Ex Officio Okay, so they're a little pricey...but they
do make the best travel clothing available.
Patagonia Their outerwear is hard to beat.
Travelsmith An expensive online store with some unique
items.