Joy to the world the mouth of the south will be coming to your little
backwater.
OK so my hand has been forced, my daughter and some school mates
(buddies in your language, which I must learn) entered a secondary
school based competition and gained second place in the national finals.
Which means they have been invited to compete in the international
finals to be held in La Crosse Wisconsin
http://www.fpspi.org/International%20Conference.html from June 10th - 13th.
Anyway we figured that we might as well all go (Me, the missus, daughter
and son) and have a gander at the US.
Seeing all I know about the States is what I have learnt from Bruce
Willis movies and he doesn't mention much about the nuts and bolts of
traveling around the states, especially since 911.
The original plan was to stay in LA for a few days and then fly over to
Chicago and buy a cheap car (preferably with a star hanging off the
bonnet (hood)) but looking into this a bit more has revealed that
registration and insurance is a nightmare to get without a permanent US
address, so we have shelved that idea and gone to plan B which is the
choo choo train.
I love train travel but apparently the anti smoking Nazis have been busy
in the US and apparently now you have to row three miles off shore in
order to light up, well perhaps not 3 miles off shore but I am led to
believe that Amtrak has a no puffing in their cattle trucks policy and
you can only smoke when the train is stopped and you are in a designated
smoking area on the platform?
Has anyone here used the train lately? Is it any good or is car rental a
better option?
For instance we plan to travel from Chicago to Milwaukee to visit the
HD museum and a couple of breweries, there is a train service between
the two but then we have to get around Milwaukee as well, spose they
have public transport.
So any hints on traveling or anything will be appreciated, our itinerary
at this stage is LA for a few days - Chicago - Milwaukee - New York
across to San Fran, down to Los Vegas (my 9 year old Son requested this
one =-O ) and then back up to LA, with a few stops in between I guess.
I'll probably have more questions for you later, so pay attention :-)
Hendrik & Family
who really only wants to see a big Walmart (maybe make it onto the
people of walmart site) and a huge Gunshop (sort of like this
http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/gunvault.asp )
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