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Selected Internet resources for independent travellers in California, USA, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, Sacramento, Yosemite park, Santa Monica, Sierra Nevada. Information about sea, islands, tourism, travel, holidays, maps, guides, travel reports, diving, archaeology, bicycle, mountaineering, canyoning, birdwatching, nature, motorbike, climbing, paddling, sailing, boats, hostels, camping, trekking, hitch hiking, car renting, and much more....


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General and Geographical data


Many general info can be found on the sites of the famous guides Rough Guide and Lonely-Planet: http://www.lonelyplanet.com Geopolitic statistics on different Countries, by CIA, are available at: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/fact... As for maps we recommend to you either the great archive Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, where maps are listed with an index, or the ypertechnological map engine of Mapquest: http://www.mapquest.com
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Hotel California is a short visit to some places in California that are memorable to me. Yosemite, the missions, the murals of Los Angeles, and its wilderness and an overview of Southern California. http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/6788... An official site (California and Yosemite) with many info and some links; there is almost everything, and you may get good maps. http://www.gocalif.ca.gov The official site on the Grand Canyon is the best: there is really everything, from geology to campings, from recommended excursions to maps. Very well structured, it's a pleasure to consult it! http://www.kaibab.org/grand.htm Homepage of Dale & Cindy Wilkins. They tell us about their travels in various places in North America. Reports are very accurate and photos clickable; links referring to the places. http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Isla... Tuan's Mountaineering Page. Information and accounts on the Monte Bianco and the Yosemite, with routes, maps photos, and practical advice. Essential for those who love extreme mountaineering. A lot of links, selected and reasoned. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~qtluong/moun... Guide to Yosemite National Park Alpine and Nordic Skiing, by John Rabold. So complete that it looks like a particularly well done official site. http://jrabold.net/ A Guide to the highest mountains in USA, everyone has a page of its own with info, links, map and more. Well structured. There is also an European version of this site. http://www.americasroof.com Hikenet, a site kept by Tom and Kathy. It connects different pages of trekking fans, of reports and of USA alpine clubs. Plenty of very good links. http://members.aol.com/hikenet/introtc.h... Susan's and Bob's page about adventures. Very interesting, with travelogues and several ideas. A lot about rafting, links. http://www.kwagunt.net/index.html A site for hiking in USA and Canada. Proposes plenty of itineraries. Though the routes are only out-lined, it usually gives the E-mail of someone who experimented them, to whom one may write, and some useful addresses. http://www.thebackpacker.com/index.cfm Paddle Trips Waterways. Really an excellent site: made by canoeists, it produces a series of routes, (mostly along the sea) with a lot of information, maps, etc. A big lot of proposals for USA, a lot for Canada, some ideas for other continents. http://www.paddletrips.net/ AWA River Guides, USA. Information about the most interesting rivers for canoeing in the USA. http://www.americanwhitewater.org/ Canoe Camping. - The Top 40 River Destinations in the USA for Relaxing Float Trips. Written by Mark McLain and Diana Christopulos, it proposes a lot of canoeing itineraries of 7 or more days in the USA, familiar style, really useful its contents. http://members.aol.com/Mmcbs/ Preston's Kayak Page, USA. A commented c ollection of links about canoeing, mainly USA. http://www.ptone.com/Kayak/ The site of USA climbers: every cliff in every state is selectionable with clickable maps and described in its most important feature ( they also explain you how to get there). Great! http://www.rocknroad.com/
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Cities and Regions


Small Towns, USA. An interesting way to visit towns that most folks have never heard of; realized via links to local sites. http://www.geocities.com/dunhada/
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Transports.

All Aboard - USA by Rail. All you need to know about train travel in the US and Canada.
http://www.USA-by-Rail.com

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Sleeping


Network about hostels, it's a site independent from various International chains. http://www.hostels.com/ Hostelling International. The largest worldwide hostel organization. http://www.iyhf.org/ A site about Canadian youth hostels ( USA as well), of a very good quality: it describes every hostel and, when possible, points out the links to the organizations they depend from. http://www.backpackers.ca/ The biggest databank on Bed&Breakfast. http://www.bedandbreakfast.com/ Database on Bed&Breakfast for the USA. http://www.bbonline.com/ The Hostel Handbook is a really complete and accurate list of hostels and other similar accommodation in North America. http://www.hostelhandbook.com 111 Travel Directory. A dirctory to find Bed & Breakfast all over the world. http://www.triple1.com Hotels in San Francisco's Area http://www.millvalleyhotel.com
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Travel reports by Bob Neubauer. This site is a collection of the author's travel reports across the five continents. Some travels are biking and canoeing. http://www.icdc.com/~neubauer/index.htm The Outer Banks by Bike, by Pat & Hal Amens. Tours, either walking or biking, well described (as a diary) and equipped with photos. http://lpf.com/adventure/index.html Alasdair Arthur's Home Page. Everything on cycling, travel accounts in England (Lake District), and in the Great Canyon, various resources and links. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages... Andy Bell's Homepage. Short travel reports with a lot of nice pictures of our trips to Australia (3 months) and USA west (3 weeks). In addition useful links and more. http://www.andybell.ch/ The reports of all Philip Greenspun's travels, a passionate traveller, in different regions of the world. Tales, photos, etc.. Very well done. http://photo.net/webtravel/ Planet surfing - Patrick, from Vancouver, travelled across North America, Asia and Australia. His travel reports are accurate and deep ones. http://www.synaptic.bc.ca/homepage.htm Traveling around the US and locally both by auto and bus. Some interests are volkswalks, camping, staying in hostels and checking out the local transit. By Rachel Aschmann. http://members.tripod.com/~rachela/trave... Roger's Travel Journals - America, Canada, Korea http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/co... Jack Sanders Reed: he tells us about his travels in Canada,USA, and Australia. http://www.swcp.com/~spsvs/outdoors/outd...
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