Almost everywhere it is expensive to fuel your car. If you live in the United States and Canada, at least, there’s a website that will help you find the cheapest price. Type your address into GasBuddy.com and you’ll get a list of the cheapest gas in your ‘hood. Or, look at the handy overview map for a breakdown of what regions generally have the cheapest fuel.
Note: There’s also a similar website for the UK: Petrol Prices
If you are looking to take an epic trip what better place to get inspiration than the epic trips of the past? A flash-rich feature produced by Good Magazine has mapped out the routes of 21 historic trips, both real (eg. the trans-Siberian railroad) and fictitious (eg. a journey to the center of the earth). To varying degrees you can learn more about each route in photos and text — Jack Kerouac’s road trip is brought to life with several quotes by the author but somehow the multi-faceted Silk Road gets only two photos (?). This fun feature should appeal to anyone who’s a traveler at heart.
There are dozens of flight tracking sites out there that can tell you if your flight is on time (or, rather, how late it is). King of them all is fboweb. They get their flight data directly from air traffic control so their information is more current and accurate than even the airlines can provide. Plus, their site includes a ton of features such as the opportunity to listen to live feeds from air traffic control and recent past flights your aircraft has taken. The coolest of all: Your flight’s data syncs up Google Earth, letting you look at a 3D rendering of exactly where on the planet your aircraft is.
Find a pub, hotel, cinema, restaurant, bed & breakfast or meeting room exactly half way between two addresses.
You live in London, your significant other lives in Manchester and you want to have a little tryst in a hotel that’s exactly half way between you two. Type each of your addresses into Meethalfway.com and — voila — up comes your answer: the Woodside Hotel, exactly a 1 hour 45 minute drive from each of you. At the time of writing only those living in Britain can ensure that their meetings take place in a perfectly equitable location though Meet Half Way is launching versions for the United States and Europe shortly.
You might have had this experience: You price out a plane ticket in the morning and by the time you are ready to purchase it that afternoon you find that the price has gone up or down. Usually up. These days airline fares seem bounce around like stock prices. Into this mess comes Farecast.com, a website that tracks airfares like, well, stock prices. Type in your route and Farecast returns a chart of fares history for that route for the last 69 days along with the percentage chance that the price will rise, fall or stay the same.
You’ve just had to take out a second mortgage to pay the fuel surcharges, security fees and taxes for your airplane ticket. That flight might be late and your checked-in luggage might get lost. But at least there’s a little something you can do to give yourself a slightly better flight — you can reserve the best seat possible. For that, seatguru.com is indispensable. Select your airline and then the plane type that you’ll be flying from the left-hand navigation and up comes a seating chart for your flight along with information on which seats are drafty, which extra legroom, which have limited recline, etc. Now if only there’s was a website to helped provide good airline food!
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