NITC Travelbase
http://www.travelbase.com/
NITC has lots to offer the planning traveller, including online hotel, airline and car rental reservations, as well as the ability to search for that specific hotel, motel or B&B to suit your tastes and/or budget. With information on hundreds of cities across the United States, you're bound to find what you're looking for here.


USA Citylink
http://banzai.neosoft.com/
The USA CityLink Project is one of the most comprehensive listing of U.S. states and cities, offering information on travel, tourism and relocation. Their newest section is the City SpotLight, where they spotlight daily one of over 2000 links at CityLink.


Lonely Planet
http://www.lonelyplanet.com
or visit Keyword: LP on America Online
Lonely Planet is renowned for its first-hand approach, up-to-date maps and commitment to providing the best information for travelers. All Lonely Planet products are intended for adventurous, independent travelers. These include guidebooks, phrasebooks, walking guides, atlases and maps. The guides cover the must-see spots but also encourage travelers to get off the beaten-track to really get to know the place and people they are visiting.


The Internet Guide To Hostelling
http://www.hostels.com
The Internet Guide to Hostelling is the biggest site on the web for information about hostels and budget travel! Their Worldwide Hostel Guide is quite possibly the largest database of hostels in the world. What is a hostel, you ask? Check out their informative FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for answers to any questions you might have about this overlooked, offbeat and incredibly inexpensive way to travel.


Online CityGuide
http://www.olcg.com
CityGuide has comprehensive travel information for all fifty states and over 1,575 individual cities.
The site breaks links for each state down into three simple categories: State Wide Information,
Regions of the State, and Cities and Towns.


Aaron's Travel Resource Center
http://www.hotel-intl.com/
With over 100,000 properties in 11,000 cities throughout the world. This site offers the user a powerful tool to locate accommodations anywhere you may want to go. Aaron’s is the only site that also lets you search by distance and direction. For example, if you have a meeting in a large metro area and you know the meeting will be held on the north side of town approximately 15 minutes from down town, you can select the search criteria "North" and "10-20" minutes. The resulting search will give you a list of all properties in the area of your meeting. Therefore, you do not need to be familiar with the city.


Roadtrip America
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/
What would you do if, one day when you least expected it, your home and business suddenly vanished? That's what happened to Mark and Megan in 1993 when a wildfire consumed hundreds of homes in the hills above Pasadena, California. Instead of plunging immediately into rebuilding, they decided to take a break. "Let's hit the road for six months or so," they said. That was 5 years and 116,000 miles ago.


Roadside America
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/
Roadside America was originally published as a book in 1986, by Fireside/Simon & Schuster. The Roadside team -- Doug Kirby, Ken Smith, Mike Wilkins -- went on to author the second book, the New Roadside America, published by S&S in 1992. Both chronicle tourist attractions throughout the continental United States -- from the World's Largest Twine Ball to an obscure monument to a patriotic pig. New database technology, and an ever- consuming need to visit every attraction in the USA, led to the formation of the Roadside America Project. Hypertourism compressed experiences into a black ball of text, photos and video. The team's first realtime coast-to-coast "virtual vacation" -- a CA-NY Hypertour -- was featured on the fledgling Hotwired web and AOL site. The Roadside guys have traveled over 200,000 miles, and continue to add attractions, photos, videos and unforgettable experiences to roadsideamerica.com.

BOOKS

AAA Guide To The National Parks
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Here is the guide vacationers and travelers should not be without. This book presents all the detailed information for readers to plan an exciting journey to our national parks. Entrance fees, permit information, accommodations, special amenities, and campgrounds are listed for each location.

Budget Motels 1998-1999 State by State Guide :
Your National Guide to the Best Low-Cost Lodgings
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Now you can travel to every state and stay in the best rooms available for $49 or less for two people. It's even more affordable for a single person overnight. No wonder that the annual State by State Guide to Budget Motels has become the largest single source of information for budget-conscious travelers.

Roadfood  (Out of print)
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The authors of the incomparable Encyclopedia of Bad Taste present an updated edition of the classic guide to America's best diners, small-town cafes, BBQ joints, and other eateries serving great, inexpensive regional foods.


Road Trip USA : Cross-Country Adventures on
America's Two-Lane Highways (2nd Ed)
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Celebrating the notion that freedom and discovery await us on the open road, this second edition of Road Trip USA lures travelers off the soulless interstates and into the world of the two-lane road with its photogenic Americana. Readers will still find the north-south Road to Nowhere; the east-west Loneliest Road; and the centerpiece Mother Road, Route 66, with directions to offbeat attractions like the neon sign collection in Iowa, the plastic wedding cake figure display in New Mexico, and the Fruitcake Capital of the World in Georgia. In addition to coverage of minor-league baseball, RVing and camping, and motorcycle touring, Jensen offers tips to the best diner apple pies, soda fountains, and out-of-the-way lodgings, and lists the call letters of lively radio stations and toll-free numbers for road conditions -- all the information readers need to create their own driving adventures.

Eat Your Way Across the USA : 500 Diners,
Lobster Shacks, Buffets, Pie Palaces, and
Other All-American Eateries
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Where can you find real Texas barbecue? Who serves the best oyster po' boys in Louisiana? Which Iowa diners are worth a detour? Where can you go in Montana for a blow-out splurge? Let intrepid culinary adventurers Jane and Michael Stern take the guesswork out of what and where to eat when traveling across America with this compendium of restaurants and eateries on and off the beaten pat

Roads from the Ashes: An Odyssey in Real Life
on the Virtual Frontier
Visit my buddies at RoadTrip America to read their continuing adventures on the road
1994 was the year Mark and Megan lost their house and all worldly possessions, same having burned to a cinder in a Los Angeles wildfire. "Why not hit the road?" they said. Suddenly ‘stuffless,' they were in a mood to seek their fortune on the highway. And that's how it began, a roadtrip that would take them not only over 115,000 miles of American pavement, but also straight into the vortex of the new revolution. In the last five years, the Internet has exploded, the world has shrunk, and a new generation of ‘49ers has made a mad dash to the World Wide Web. America will never be the same. Roads from the Ashes: An Odyssey in Real Life on the Virtual Frontier, published by Trilogy Books, is now available -- click here for ordering information. For a preview, click here to read Chapter One. Please be sure and mention you heard about them from Henry's USA Roadtrip!