Guides and more guides!
If you have to change planes in international airports that you are unfamiliar with – and you are short on time – it helps to get familiar with those airports before traveling. My favorite website is the International Airport Guide and another useful site is Airport Guides.
You might be needing to travel by subway in certain international cities and if so there is also a great site for that: Subway Maps! If you have to take public transport internationally this will help: i-Metro.
And there are some of us that have a fascination with old railways – and yes – there is a website that lists hundreds of abandoned railroad right-of-ways converted to rail-trails for hiking, cycling, horseback riding, snowmobiling, and recreation called Rails-to Trails.
