Our family did an 11-week trip through the USA and Canada between
late March
and mid-June 2004.
The travellers were Dom, aged
42, Narrelle, (41), our daughter, (11) and son (10).
We had a wonderful trip to North America, one that we will
remember fondly for
many years.
All up, we drove about 10,000
miles (16,000 km) and spent at least one night in
18 states and provinces. These are: California, Nevada,
Arizona, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas,
Tennessee, Georgia, DC, New York, Massachusetts,
Vermont, Quebec, Ontario,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey. We briefly
visited, but
did not stay, in Arkansas,
Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Hampshire, Connecticut
and Rhode Island.
This website has been created mainly for the benefit of our
friends and family, to allow
them access to some of our (many!) photos and the various notes
we made on our
experiences in America.
However, we also thought that our experiences may be of
some use to fellow Australians (and maybe others) planning to
travel to North America.
Our website contains some comments on what we found to be the
best way to
access funds while in America, our experiences with renting cars,
staying in various
hotels/motels and flying with two different airlines within the
United States. We should
emphasize that we are in no way presenting ourselves as experts
in these fields, but are
merely offering others the benefit of our experiences, which may
or may not be useful
or relevant to others in planning their own trip.
We encourage anyone preparing for a trip to North America or
anywhere else to seek
the advice and assistance of professionals in the travel industry
or, if planning the trip
yourselves, to research it thoroughly, using the wide range of
material that is now
available, both on the internet and in more traditional
media.
Click on the link below to read about some resources that we
found useful, both in
planning our trip and while we were in North America:
Regards,
Dom & Narrelle
November, 2004