If you were to visit 6 US/Canadian cities in one week what will you choose??

you are allowed to take 5 flights between them.

i wouldn't, that would be miserable

yeah that would kind of be too much. Maybe visit small yet cool cities so as to not be overwhelmed?

you guys are party poopers

arrive in nyc friday night
take acela to DC sunday morning
fly to chicago monday morning
fly to SF tuesday morning
fly to LA wednesday morning
fly to honolulu thursday morning
leave honolulu friday evening

calgary to nyc to vancouver to philadelphia to seattle to halifax

spend all your time on planes

calgary to nyc to vancouver to philadelphia to seattle to halifax

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"indie"

Vancouver
Portland
SF
LA
Somewhere in hawaii
Bozeman, MT

NYC->DC->New Orleans->San Antonio->LA->SF

haha indie

i really would want to go to all those places except nyc, i don't know why it's there

to irritate u

no i mean i don't know why i put it on the list. should be something else that would take a long time to get to on a plane

brooklyn

maine

no airports in maine unfortunately

it's ok u can take a bush plane and land on a lake

Montreal > New York > Chicago > Vancouver > San Francisco > Los Angeles

Yeah, is this an actual "recommendations for a holiday" thread because it would be mental to try and do such a thing. The distances are too vast, you'd spend more than half your trip on a plane.

Or is it more "pick yr fave cities to holiday in, in North America" thread?

If the latter...

Vancouver
Seattle
San Francisco
New Orleans
Boston
Montreal

(didn't pick the obvious NYC because I lived there for so long 1 day as a tourist wouldn't really do anything for me.)

If you want an actual holiday:

Montreal -> Boston -> NYC -> Philly -> Baltimore -> DC but you could do that driving.

Or drop the first two cities off and add maybe Nashville and then New Orleans.

Actually sorry you can probably have two weeks if necessary. So more the latter, I'm just hoping to be inspired about where I may like to visit. want to spend a few days in nyc, and maybe a couple of nights in Vegas to win some holiday money back by poker. The ticket im thinking of buying will allow me to take several more stops

Really would like to hear some good stuff about various cities want to see some places that are diff from one another

I'm going to have about a month in total but will also be spending two weeks of it in Hong kong and a couple of stops in Japan perhaps

This sounds like a great kind of ticket.

Montreal -> Boston -> NYC -> Philly -> Baltimore -> DC

^ maybe i'm boring but this sounds good. you could use amtrak, too. wouldn't necessarily want to hit every "important" city in the u.s. tbh. i like the smaller ones.

fuck the east coast

drive up the west coast from San Diego ---> Vancouver

you will get more nat'l splendor

stfu the east coast is good and interesting

Yeah, I was thinking that driving/flying up the west coast could be awesome, maybe with Vegas thrown in. Largely because I have already been to most major east coast cities.

and also east coast rules.

I'm in NY, so I'd go Chicago-Vancouver-Seattle-SF-Austin. LA wd be a consideration if I drove.

the east coast is def interesting and cool, but if driving is at all an option/intersting to ken c, then a cruise up the pacific coast (w/side trip to LV) would, imo, be way more rewarding

you get several different flavors of american urban areas punctuated by some pretty spectacular displays of raw american wildnerness!

otherwise he's just getting traffic jams and rude people

well he'd get that on the west coast, too, but w/e

rude people are part of the american experience. also when would this be? i admit you might want to steer clear of the east coast in dec/jan/feb/mar lol :(

gbx (sadly) otm

or for a weirder tour, cut out northern cities all together and do like DC/Balti --> Miami --> New Orleans --> Austin --> LV --> LA

yeah i only included them because he said he plans to go to nyc. skipping the north would be fine imo

that list actually sounds v interesting

nyc/chicago/sf/seattle/toronto/montreal

NYC --> DC/Balti --> Miami --> New Orleans --> (skip Austin?) --> LV --> LA

this would be way more interesting, culturally, than seeing NYC AND Boston AND Philly AND w/e

balto

rly?

yup

drive up the west coast from San Diego ---> Vancouver

Love the east coast but if I could, this is exactly what I would do.

I would kick off my Burger King tour of the San Joaquin Valley (wherein I patronize Burger King restaurants exclusively and then write informative reviews of each one) in Bakersfield, then up to Visalia, then Fresno (of course!), then Merced, then the tour takes an interesting turn as I forgo the predictable Modesto stop in lieu of Turlock, then probably wrap it all up in scenic Stockton, just in time for the 25th Annual Stockton Asparagus Festival (April 23rd-25th, 2010).

Take the train instead of driving, and then you can drink while you dolphin watch.

Columbus-Dayton-Indianapolis-Peoria-Des Moines-Omaha

if it's summer time: NYC ---> Chicago ---> AMTRAK EMPIRE BUILDER TO POINTS WEST: MPLS, GLACIER NAT'L PARK, SEATTLE

Buffalo -> Pittsburgh -> Cleveland -> Columbus -> Cincinnati -> Indianapolis

lol get a tetanus shot

If I was able to drive, ROADTRIP!

Any city that is smack in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains (drove through'em and LOVED it)
Chigago
New Orleans
Boston
Flagstaff (Well, I just wanna drive around Arizona)

Yes, I know very little about the US states/cities. Eat me.

imo if possible you should visit Yellowstone National Park – that place is gorgeous and otherworldly and insane!

http://www.astro.yale.edu/chunter/presentations/cty/yellowstone-morning-glory.jpg

good thread, Ken!

St.Johns >> Halifax >> New Orleans >> Austin >> San Diego >> San Francisco

Montreal-Memphis-Santa Fe-Vegas-San Fran-Juneau

Montreal-Chicago-Austin-SF-Seattle

that's actually pretty good!

if you were to visit one of these places which would you prefer and why?

Montreal/Toronto
Austin/San Antonio/Dallas

like the sound of seattle, too. i guess i can just go nyc -> nv -> la -> sf -> seattle? i can save a few flights if i do a "surface" e.g. if i hire a car so drive up the west coast.... not sure how realistic it is though.

portland too zomg

la to seattle is a LONG drive. even without any stops. which you would feel the need to do every 30 minutes or so.

keep in mind that driving up the west coast takes a long, long time

xp

montreal new york new orleans la sf

mtl nyc nola la sf

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if you only see big cities you're totally missing out

Austin is "cool" but pretty low on sites---it has the Capitol and the bats are interesting. And it's a great place to hang out. But San Antonio has the Alamo, the Riverwalk, the Mercado, and is kinda a world unto itself (like New Orleans in that regard).

do foreigners really care about the alamo? and by foreigners I mean people not from texas

Dude, Pee Wee's Big Adventure!

ya - i wanna see the basement!

i have a few friends that live in Austin tho and the music scene is something else.

If I were American I might get away with saying "yeah, go to LA because it's the only one of these cities you'd exhaust in a day". But I'm just a Euro so like whatever.

ken have you been to the states before?

you could do

nyc -air-> lv -air/drive-> sf -multi-day-drive--> seattle

SF to Seattle is a 12-13 drive, according to Google. This is not long by lol hueg america standards, imo, and if partitioned over the bulk of a week (as demanded by the scenery imo) would probably be as much of a highlight as any urban experience you'd get on either end.

montreal - chicago - new york - vegas - san fran - vancouver - r.i.p

no matter where you go, make sure to buy your tickets wayyy ahead of time, cause unlike europe you can't go on the assumption that you'll find something cheap a week before

Buffalo -> Pittsburgh -> Cleveland -> Columbus -> Cincinnati -> Indianapolis

Haha, if you really like to drive you can do all those in a day.

whoa - i missed that one... why?!

This sounds like torture to me. What would be the point? After flinging yourself from place to place so rapidly there would be no time to acquaint yourself with anything much past the airport and maybe a couple of restaurants.

I like that multi day drive idea. Aimless you're right of course too. But in fairness I can have more time or visit fewer places if required hoping for a bit of brainstorm really for inspiration and possibilities. I won't have days and days. But plan is to spend at least a day and a night in each place at least if not more

Iatee - I'm looking into the oneworld explorer Ticket which is like a flat fee and you can take up to 16 tickets over several continents. So I should be ok for flexibility on tickets but will be booking ahead in any case

wow that sounds pretty cool

fuck the east coast
Yes, this.

Yellowstone seconded. You could spend a week there every summer for the rest of your life and not see it all.

Alternative for a long, spectacular drive would be to start in Calgary or Edmonton and follow the Rockies all the way down, winding up eventually in Las Vegas. It'd be a long & winding road, and it'd take up your entire time in America - not many big cities on the way either - but the scenery'd be incredible and you would feel like a god the whole time.

If the goal is just to spend a day/night in each town, then I'd stick with the smaller towns that are somewhat dissimilar from each other but could manage in a day:

Montreal (Canadian pick, Francophone), or if you want Atlantic Canada, Halifax or St. John's NF
Cleveland (rustbelt, Great Lakes)
Denver (Rocky Mountain meets Great Plains)
Seattle
Savannah, GA (beautiful south)
New Orleans

Alliston, ON* >> Halifax >> Nashua, NH** >> NYC >> Frisco >> Vancouver

*Nostalgia - moved away when I was six; haven't been back in 35 years; curious whether my hot dog tree ever grew
**Home of the New England Synthesizer Museum

when dyou plan on going, Ken?

thinking about end of march + start of april (i can combine the tailend of the annual leave for 2009/10 with the start of 2010/11 ones then so i can go for an extra long one if i wish.

this may make a difference to the choices, i presume with regards to climate?

i like gbx's fly-drive combo, and march-april would be fine for it. depends on how much cold you want to deal with. Chicago and Montreal will still be really chilly, but the other places most mentioned shouldn't be.

and now I've booked it!

sadly the ticket restrictions means that i can't visit too many smaller places (as any connecting flights will count as 2 flights).. ended up with

NYC -> Chicago -> Knoxville -> Dallas -> Las Vegas -> LA -> San Francisco

sad omissions on this trip but would deffo like to do next time:
montreal, new orleans, denver, seattle
yellowstone (looks amazing!)

thanks for all the suggestions i wish i have another month in US to go see them all.

now, the next question: those places listed, what's fun? Tell me about them, and also tell me if there are good eats available to me. I want to eat my way through this trip.

and more important question: anybody live anywhere around there and FAP?

there are a couple of Chicago people on ILX.

i just think it's awesome that knoxville is one of the six. (and completely otm.)

lil bit curious abt that one

it has a sunsphere!!!

I'm pretty ?? about it, too, and Dallas.

Dallas?

u tryin to meet jr ewing or somthin?

Knoxville because there is an ilx love-in that coincides, plus sunsphere! Dallas mainly out of necessity because it is a hub city that connects knoxville and Vegas! I'm only there overnight and the majority of next day.

Also, I want to meet Debbie there.