kreitz@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Christoph Kreitz) (02/17/86)
Starting May 15th I am planning to do a 2-1/2 months travel around the
United States. The route planned so far is
New York (May)
Washington D.C
..
Florida (June)
New Orleans
Texas (+ Mexico ?)
Grand Canyon N.P.
Southern California
San Francisco (July)
Yellowstone N.P.
St.Louis
Chicago
New York City (End of July)
I am going by car and usually I will be camping in a tent.
Do you people have any recommendations (what I should visit, traffic and weather
conditions), warnings, hints etc. for me ?
What about going to Mexico for 1 or 2 days? Do I need a visa? ( I am not an US
citizen.) Do I have to be able to speak spanish?
Thanks for your help.
Christoph Kreitz
Dept. of Computer Science
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
arpa: KREITZ@GVAX.CS.CORNELL.EDU
bitnet: KREITZ@CRNLCS.BITNETpfeiffer@uwvax.UUCP (Phil Pfeiffer) (02/20/86)
Just looking at your itinerary .... are you so hooked on a frantic lifestyle
that you need to do the whole USA at once for the challenge of it? Or, are
you afraid of missing something if you don't?
Looking at some of the places you've named:
Yosemite: My wife and I spent a month in northern California
last June and felt we could have used another two weeks to sightsee;
we were four days at Yosemite and could have spent another three,
at least, in the area. We didn't even take any backcountry trips,
or get to Devil's Postpile (it hadn't opened yet for the summer).
Florida: If you enjoy watersports (e.g., diving, fishing, snorkeling
-- the springs area as well as the Keys are great for this), two weeks
would be a good amount of time to allocate, for openers. Maybe not too
much more in the summer ...
New York City, New York State: Being from Cornell, you should know how
much there is to see and do in upstate and downstate New York ....
I could continue on in this vein. Let me sum up my advice as follows:
choose four, maybe five, six, places to investigate in-depth. Get travel
guides from the AAA and/or the library. Do less rushing around - you'll
see a lot more, and memories of sitting in a car won't predominate afterward.
Enjoy! --
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