FOAK North America touring

Ideas welcome, as I am clueless.

SWMBO said North America in reply to my "no fucking beach resorts
after two IT projects for a chain of Caribbean beach resorts".

By rental car, may be some one day bike rentals in chosen places.

"North America" means parts such as New England, Maine, Canada and
whatever around the Great Lakes. Local latin people are allowed if the
latin language is French, as in Quebec [1]

[1] **** off the "quebecois est pas la meme chose" with weird accent.

 

I did almost 3 months and 47 of the 50 States last year... what do you
want to know?

 

Nice places in the states I described (and Canada) whose name I should
put in Google to start having an idea of what they are.

Preferably great outdoors and their roads, if we wanted to see old
cities and monuments we'd stay in Europe. NYC and similar cities,
there are plenty of Dagos around to tell us where to go shopping.

Warnings about the US and their "it is illegal to sodomize a platypus
in public venues between 5:00am and 9:00am" weird laws are also
welcome.

First time there, yes.

 

I'm intrigued... Assuming two of the missing three were Alaska and Hawaii
- which was the third, and were you not tempted to go there purely to
tick it off and say you'd done all the mainland states?

 

He did say 50 states, so that gag does't really work.

 

I realise that the places you named are Northeast, but really, IMO
there's not a lot to do or see that I would bother making a special
trip for. 10 seconds looking at Quebec (province) on google maps will
confirm this.

If you really want the great outdoors, and nice roads then you won't
get better than heading to the Northwest.

Anywhere west of Rapid City (South Dakota) which has Badlands National
Park and Custer State Park (where you will see wild Bison roaming, and
can laugh at the yanks calling them Buffalo). Yellowstone[1], Grand
Tetons and Shoshone are like a whole different world. From there you
could:

a) head south to Utah and see so many different types of landscape you
wouldn't believe it. (Arches NP, Bryce Canyon, Zion NP, Monument Valley
etc etc). Keep heading south for Grand Canyon/Hoover Dam and end up in
Vegas.

b) head north, Glacier NP, over the border to Banff and Jasper NP's.
End up in Edmonton or Calgary.

c) head west and north, Mt Rainier NP, Olympic NP (which includes a
rainforest) end up at Seattle, or keep heading north on the highway (5)
or coastal roads until you cross the border into Vancouver and
surrounding NP's, or even Whistler, depending on the weather.

If you don't want to travel so far, then Colorado has a good mix of
great outdoors stuff and isn't too far from civilisation.

You just pretty much covered the Northeast with these two statements.

Don't get caught.


[1] Yellowstone should be on everyone's 'to see before I die' list.

 

North Dakota. It was tempting, but would have been at least an extra 12
hours of driving, just to go over the stateline and get back on track.
We were already conscious of time and decided that we'd rather an extra
day somewhere decent, than just looking at (yet more) grass.

I've still seen more states than 99% of Americans will ever see, so
it's not such a loss really.

HI and AK are on the list for the future, and who knows, maybe one day
I'll have time enough to hit ND just for the sake of it.

 

Well if you want to include the 'dotted line' states, then I did indeed
hit 49 out of 52 in 2009.

 

and just in case Domenec doesn't realise, this is coming from someone
(Mark, not I) that lives east of Rapid City, near the Great Lakes.

Although I'm sure he takes plenty of cheese and beefsticks when he goes
on his travels.

 

Guam's so nice at this time of year.

 

Like the Virgin Islands, Guam's a bona-fide territory, not a dotted
line state. Mexico is the place you were looking for.

 

The UK and Mexico. HTH.

 

I thought the Mexicans were claiming the Southern States as their own.
And recovering them by dint of population.

 

Heh. I'll take that as a nibble.

Now then, the Ozarks did catch me somewhat by surprise. Really didn't
expect to find that where we were, iyswim. Camped there for a few days.
Literally feet from the shore of one of the lakes, very few other
people around. Great it was.

 

You 'think' a lot of things. Doesn't make them true though.

 

My colleage here is half Mexican American so my perspective may be somewhat
skewed.

Within 30 years they expect all mainland States except Alaska to be majority
Latino. Apparently.

 

Did you not bother stopping ?

We did 27 in 3 months (some doubled)

 

I'll beware of sexy platypus, then.

Thanks for the advice.

 

X-DDD

 

Beware the venomous spike, dago-san.