Hi Hendrik -
Welcome to USA ! IMO riding a train is a great experience. But your
plans will still require a car/taxi/public transp. You lose a lot of
flexibility when traveling by trains are they just are not as regular or
frequent as they are in Europe. If it were me, I'd use the train for long
distances but plan on renting a car when you want to visit museums and the
other attractions you'd like to see. Having the freedom to be on your own
time table is invaluable.
The weather in the parts of US you'll be visiting in June can vary
greatly so you may need to bring layers of clothing that can come off when
the temps go up. It's still early enough in the summer season to have some
cold surprises.
The Gun shops await! Yu might consider Cabela's. www.cabelas.com has a
listing of all their stores - hopefully one will be near your route....
Congrats to your daughter! She played an obviously outstanding part in
helping the team win! ;-) Good luck on the travels and her competitions.
LarryT
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From: "Hendrik & Fay" <heni...@ozemail.com.au>
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 3:56 AM
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Subject: [MBZ] Hendrik and Co coming to the US of A in June
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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