Places to visit in the USA
12 April 2006, 07:12 PM
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Places to visit in the USA
Later this year im visiting the US for a long holiday....starting in Florida then travelling up east coast to NYC then ALLLLL the way across the country ending in San Francisco.....
so question is what places MUST i visit on my way round....already got a fair few but would like ur input
so question is what places MUST i visit on my way round....already got a fair few but would like ur input
12 April 2006, 07:22 PM
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Utah mate.
Great scenery and geology.
Get to Moab - hire a mountan bike from Poison Spider bicycle shop or Rim Cyclery and do the world famous slickrock trail its only 10 miles long but is on Slick Rock (funnily enough) its an amazing experience as the bike has so much grip.........
Great scenery and geology.
Get to Moab - hire a mountan bike from Poison Spider bicycle shop or Rim Cyclery and do the world famous slickrock trail its only 10 miles long but is on Slick Rock (funnily enough) its an amazing experience as the bike has so much grip.........
13 April 2006, 03:41 AM
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Cedar Point
If i were you i would stop in here on your way to San Fran form the Big Apple
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you will not regret it!!
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13 April 2006, 07:47 AM
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Savannah, Georgia - the deep south is beautiful!
Burlington, Vermont - in fact anywhere around New England - great people and chilled out
Drive through the Rockies through to Salt Lake City - stunning! Just don't go through Iowa to get there - one big flat farm!
Phoenix, Arizona - oasis in the desert!
Burlington, Vermont - in fact anywhere around New England - great people and chilled out
Drive through the Rockies through to Salt Lake City - stunning! Just don't go through Iowa to get there - one big flat farm!
Phoenix, Arizona - oasis in the desert!
13 April 2006, 03:54 PM
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thing is RA i've got as much time as i need and i've saved over 10K so that I can do ANYTHING i want when i want really. Thats nearly $17,000 to play with while im over there
Thats kinda why im asking for loads of places to visit cos im gonna be there for a long time
Thats kinda why im asking for loads of places to visit cos im gonna be there for a long time
16 April 2006, 07:01 AM
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Busch Gardens in Tampa, FL. Great theme park and zoo.
San Diego is supposed to be very nice, and has one of the worlds best zoos. Everyone who has been there loves San Francisco too.
Chicago is supposed to be the best city to eat in!
http://wildliferanchtexas.com/home.html is an African Safari near San Antonio, Texas
but haven't been there yet.
The Mississippi will be hard to miss, St Louis etc. New Orleans depending on when you travel and how far into the rebuild they are.
Austin, Texas if you like live music.
Las Vegas and the Rockies. Preferably when there is a policemans convention in town, and you and your attorney have a trunk full of ether and other nacortics!
The Great Lakes are supposed to be great.
Sure I can think of more when I'm not on my way to bed.......
San Diego is supposed to be very nice, and has one of the worlds best zoos. Everyone who has been there loves San Francisco too.
Chicago is supposed to be the best city to eat in!
http://wildliferanchtexas.com/home.html is an African Safari near San Antonio, Texas
but haven't been there yet. The Mississippi will be hard to miss, St Louis etc. New Orleans depending on when you travel and how far into the rebuild they are.
Austin, Texas if you like live music.
Las Vegas and the Rockies. Preferably when there is a policemans convention in town, and you and your attorney have a trunk full of ether and other nacortics!
The Great Lakes are supposed to be great.
Sure I can think of more when I'm not on my way to bed.......
16 April 2006, 08:44 AM
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Sounds like a great chance to see ther USA, I went to the west coast a while ago (1992), saw quite a few of the national parks, highlights were the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Bryce Canyon, Zion and Monument Valley, all worth visiting, best cities were San Francisco, Las Vegas and San Diego.
You will have a ball!!!
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You will have a ball!!!
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16 April 2006, 12:35 PM
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Just got back from San francisco and Las Vegas both great palces. Love San Francisco loads to do and some great bars around. you have to check out
http://www.tommysjoynt.com/
they do a great hand carved sandwich.
http://www.tommysjoynt.com/
they do a great hand carved sandwich.
16 April 2006, 06:04 PM
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Afternoon tea, yes really, on the top floor of the Bank of America sky scraper in San Francisco. Get there at 3pm, and take the express elevator all the way to the top. Fantastic views, nice cup of tea, and some decent sarnies as well!
16 April 2006, 06:26 PM
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You have to visit Yosemite it has some of the most amazing views you will ever see, we were there last year, its only about 4 hours from San Fran. Take a look at the Ahwahnee hotel and maybe stop a few nights in Curry village while your there. I'm going back in September and hireing a 32 foot RV and traveling around for 3 weeks.(5.2 litre V8)
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Yosemite is definaitley worth a few days, then a trip to Death Valley onto either Vegas or LA. I did the LA route a couple of years ago as the family wanted to do Disneyland 
I did another road trip last summer with a mate, ended up doing about 6200 miles in two weeks. We had to pick up his girlfriends car from San Fran and drive to their place in South Carolina.
The basic route was north out of San Fran until we hit the Canadian boarder, then down to Denver for a couple of business meetings, then onto south Carolina.
We went to a lot of national parks. We were turned away from a few parks due to snow, in California, in June (doesn't sound real but at one of the camping grounds at Lassen NP there was about 6 inches of the portable toilets sticking out of the top of the snow at the camping ground
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Crater Lake (a few hours north of San Fran) is a very nice place to stop. It's a volcano crater filled with water, the surface being something like 300m below the viewing area at the top.
Mount St Helens was covered in fog, so had to settle for the visitor centre.
Glacier NP was a really wild, being on the boarder it was covered in snow.
Yellowstone was not as good as Glacier, it was very commercialised. There were huge tailbacks wherever bears were and the other large animals (bison, elk etc) seemed used to humans.
Devils Tower was maybe not worth the detour. Mount Rushmore was impresive, but a lot smaller than i imagined. The multi storey car parks suggest it gets busy during the day, we were there at 6 in the morning so managed to avoid the crowds.
Denver was great, snow on the ground but warm and sunny enough to sit by the pool and get a tan!
Kansas was pretty much 1000 miles of nothing but fields, did this part of the trip in one hit the only thing breaking up the journey was the need for more fuel every three hours.
Stopped at various places including Mamoth Caves. We did the short tour, I thought 2 hours would be preferable to the 8 hour tour. Onto the Great Smokey Mountains (Great humid mountains would have been closer to the truth) then to my mates place in SC with a couple of days relaxing on the golf course.
Managed to do the whole trip without getting a speeding ticket which was amazing. Just have to keep an eye out for patrol cars sitting on the central reserve.
Roads were great, sometimes we went for 20 minutes without seeing another car, only real traffic was at Nashville during the evening rush hour.
I did another road trip last summer with a mate, ended up doing about 6200 miles in two weeks. We had to pick up his girlfriends car from San Fran and drive to their place in South Carolina.
The basic route was north out of San Fran until we hit the Canadian boarder, then down to Denver for a couple of business meetings, then onto south Carolina.
We went to a lot of national parks. We were turned away from a few parks due to snow, in California, in June (doesn't sound real but at one of the camping grounds at Lassen NP there was about 6 inches of the portable toilets sticking out of the top of the snow at the camping ground
).Crater Lake (a few hours north of San Fran) is a very nice place to stop. It's a volcano crater filled with water, the surface being something like 300m below the viewing area at the top.
Mount St Helens was covered in fog, so had to settle for the visitor centre.
Glacier NP was a really wild, being on the boarder it was covered in snow.
Yellowstone was not as good as Glacier, it was very commercialised. There were huge tailbacks wherever bears were and the other large animals (bison, elk etc) seemed used to humans.
Devils Tower was maybe not worth the detour. Mount Rushmore was impresive, but a lot smaller than i imagined. The multi storey car parks suggest it gets busy during the day, we were there at 6 in the morning so managed to avoid the crowds.
Denver was great, snow on the ground but warm and sunny enough to sit by the pool and get a tan!
Kansas was pretty much 1000 miles of nothing but fields, did this part of the trip in one hit the only thing breaking up the journey was the need for more fuel every three hours.
Stopped at various places including Mamoth Caves. We did the short tour, I thought 2 hours would be preferable to the 8 hour tour. Onto the Great Smokey Mountains (Great humid mountains would have been closer to the truth) then to my mates place in SC with a couple of days relaxing on the golf course.
Managed to do the whole trip without getting a speeding ticket which was amazing. Just have to keep an eye out for patrol cars sitting on the central reserve.
Roads were great, sometimes we went for 20 minutes without seeing another car, only real traffic was at Nashville during the evening rush hour.
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Originally Posted by stevebt
if your ending in california !! santa monica and long beach is really nice plus anheim disneyland is close by
Only if you want to get shot at though.
On a serious note you have to do long beach. The missus has to wear a Bikini and roller blades by law.
17 April 2006, 12:27 AM
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Rent a Lincoln Navigator and cruise the back streets of South Central LA playing really loud hip hop.
Only if you want to get shot at though.
On a serious note you have to do long beach. The missus has to wear a Bikini and roller blades by law.
Only if you want to get shot at though.
On a serious note you have to do long beach. The missus has to wear a Bikini and roller blades by law.
its friggin huge and its a V8
17 April 2006, 09:45 AM
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any idea what fuel costs out there? I'm going to be doing some serious mileage and i think thats going to cost as much as hiring the car for 2+ months 
its about a quarter of our price!! unless you pay by credit card you have to pay for the fuel in advance and i didnt have a clue what to pay so i paid $40, the car had 1/4 of a tank but it only took $31 to fill it up
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I can also recommend Yosemite.
Still rates as one of the best places I have ever been to (even after spending a year in Oz!), the scenery is just stunning when you first arrive coming from San Fran, you get to see right down the valley to Half Dome. Into the valley you notice the towering cliffs and then the absolute silence if you can get away from the crowds.
Plenty of hikes to do here and can highly recommend heading upto Glacier Point then doing the 4-5 miles hike down to the valley (but get someone to get you up there or something as you wont want to have to walk back to the car).
A hike upto Vernal and Nevada Falls is worthwhile, then perhaps continue to Half Dome if you have the time... Really want to go back and do this now.
Utah is fab too, loads of interesting scenery to checkout.
Oh, the drive from LA to San Fran is a must and cannot be missed, Highway 1!
James
Still rates as one of the best places I have ever been to (even after spending a year in Oz!), the scenery is just stunning when you first arrive coming from San Fran, you get to see right down the valley to Half Dome. Into the valley you notice the towering cliffs and then the absolute silence if you can get away from the crowds.
Plenty of hikes to do here and can highly recommend heading upto Glacier Point then doing the 4-5 miles hike down to the valley (but get someone to get you up there or something as you wont want to have to walk back to the car).
A hike upto Vernal and Nevada Falls is worthwhile, then perhaps continue to Half Dome if you have the time... Really want to go back and do this now.
Utah is fab too, loads of interesting scenery to checkout.
Oh, the drive from LA to San Fran is a must and cannot be missed, Highway 1!
James
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