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Travel

Airline Toll-free Numbers and Web Sites
Provides a comprehensive list of worldwide airlines, phone numbers, and links to their web sites.

Airlines of the Web
Dedicated to free online information and reservations for airline travel.

AmTrak
Find schedules and fares and weekly web deals for rail travel.

Cheap Tickets
Get your discount airline tickets here. Now expanded to include discount prices on cruises, hotels, and rental cars.

Greyhound
If you need to travel by bus, check here for schedules and fares and purchase your tickets online.

Lonely Planet
A terrific online travel guide for finding maps, attractions, and other information about your worldwide travel destinations.

MapQuest
Retrieve maps and driving directions to customized destinations and discover links to travel guides, traffic reports, and more.

Maps on Us
An easy-to-use site for drawing maps and getting directions to all your travel destinations.

Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District
Find out where and when you can catch the South Shore line that runs between Chicago and northern Indiana.

Tickets.com
Here you can purchase tickets for travel but also for sporting and entertainment events.

Travelocity
An easy way to search for the best fares for air travel, hotels, car rentals, cruises, and more.

Weather

Historical Weather Database
Maintained by the Washington Post, this site allows you to enter a city, state, or country and obtain historical data about average temperatures, precipitation, etc.

Indiana Climate Page
An archive of historical Indiana climate conditions provided by the state climatologist.

National Climatic Data Center
Claims to be the "world's largest active archive of weather data" and extends back to 1985.

National Weather Service
Here you can search for official weather forecasts for your home or travel destination in the U.S.

Tornado Project Online
Learn about tornado myths, tornado oddities, personal experiences, tornado chasing, tornado safety, and tornadoes in the past as well as more recent tornadoes.

Weather Channel
The online version of the popular cable television program gives you ways to search for current weather conditions and forecasts.

Weather Underground
Get fast forecasts for designated cities in the U.S>.

World Weather Information Service
Brought to the web by the Hong Kong Observatory for the World Meteorological Organization, this ultimate world weather site provides official weather observations, forecasts, and climate data for more than 1,000 cities.