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Travel Smarts
Sun Staff The new Gettysburg Expedition guide could make a Civil War enthusiast out of children as well as adults. The three-part multimedia kit (the first product for the travel guide company Travel Brains) uses interactive games, quizzes, movies and tour narration to give users a better understanding of one of the most decisive battles in the Civil War. A six-section CD-ROM takes you step-by-step through the battle and the history leading up to it, and includes a 30-minute movie, animated battle maps, soldier biographies, a game that puts you in the position of field commander and a trip planner. When you get to the battlefield, a two-hour CD audio tour accompanies you on your driving route, explaining the significance of important locations and the battlefield strategy used in each place. A guidebook supplements the CD with 17 detailed battle maps showing troop movements, historic photographs and a key to the most important of the 1,300 monuments, memorials and markers on the battlefield. To order the $40 kit, go to www.travelbrains.com, or call 888-458-6475. Where to bite the Apple With more than 18,000 restaurants to choose from, deciding where to eat in New York City can be a major project. To help weed through the list, Where Magazine spent four months polling Big Apple tourists for their best restaurant picks in eight categories. Here are the first-place winners: · Best overall restaurant and best wine list: Windows on the World, 1 World Trade Center, 107th floor; 212-524-7000; American cuisine. Best fine dining: The Four Seasons, 99 E. 52nd St.; 212-754-9494; American-Continental. Best service: Union Square Cafe, 21 E. 16th St.; 212-243-4020; Italian-influenced American. Best casual dining: Brasserie, 100 E. 53rd St.; 212-751-4840; New American and French. Best pre-theater dining: Sardi's, 243 W. 44th St.; 212-221-8440; Continental. Best dessert: Daniel, 60 E. 65th St.; 212-288-0033; French. Best kid-friendly dining: Mars 2112, 1633 Broadway; 212-582-2112; "Pan Asian global fusion" (translation: a little of everything). Best neighborhood ambiance: Tribeca Grill, 375 Greenwich St., 212-941-3900; Contemporary American. If a tree falls in the woods, you can both discuss it So much for roughing it. Motorola has introduced the Talkabout T6320 two-way radio, designed to keep travelers in touch while trekking through the woods. The Talkabout features a digital compass, altimeter, barometer, thermometer and the ability to receive weather warnings from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The high-tech walkie-talkie has a two-mile maximum range, and also comes with a built-in clock, alarm and stopwatch. They are available in lime green, purple, blue and black. The T6320 sells for about $130. More information is available at www.motorola.com/T6300. -Tricia Bishop Copyright © 2001, The Baltimore Sun
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