Travel Forum / Destinations / USA and Canada / November 2004

Yes, they are even more cowardly than the frogs and they need punishment.
George W.Bush rules the world!

I am trying to find out about scents that are disctinctive and
descriptive of certain regions in the USA, specifically:
Badlands, SD
Everglades, FL

I'm looking ahead to next year and thinking of where our family of 2
adults and 2 teens can spend Christmas.  What are some of your favorite
US holiday destinations other than beaches (we live in FL) ?  

I'm going to be driving from Minneapolis to Philly in a packed moving truck
towing a car in a few days and am wondering if it's more advisable to travel
through Chicago or around it.  Every time I've driven through the city I get
stuck in traffic but I'm not sure if the extra time ...

Count on Cleveland, Ohio to go car-free.

How can we get from Baton Rouge to New Orleans (and vice versa) quickly and
inexpensively, without renting a car?
Any suggestions??
Thanks,

i am planning to visit the Canadian Rockies (start from Calgary to
Banff up to Jasper then to Vancouver) on July (2005), can anyone tell
me:
1) what is the temperature? rainfall?

Radical Islam Appears to Be Spreading
By BRIAN MURPHY
.c The Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - The same day Dutch mourners gathered outside a

Here you are, people.
The poor man posted that in the Europe group...
back to its own place
80% of all votes in America are counted by only two

Does anyone have a restaurant suggestion for Montreal?  I am looking for
something very special as it will be a wedding anniversary celebration.
Restaurant Bonaparte (in old Montreal) has been suggested but am
interested if there are other/better choices.

Questions first and the background to them afterwards
1) How serious does a crime have to be and how recent to exclude you
from the visa waiver program ?
2) How much information about criminal convictions in the UK is

My fiance and I are hoping to honeymoon in Maui and Kauai mid March of
'05.  Each for 4 to 5 days.  We're looking to stay in a hotel while on
Maui and a
condo while on Kauai.  On Maui we're hoping to have some sort of

Can a visitor claim the sales tax back from goods purchased. I am going to
California and hope to buy some goods worth about $500 and take them with me
to Australia
Do you know a site where I could get more info?

Considering the crap debates about US internal affairs on rec.travel.europe,
I suggest all Q and A about European TRAVEL start right here...
After all that GWB is your's, not our's, thank god as you like to say over
there...

Although I have been to Colorado before I have never been to Steamboat
Springs. My husband and I are going the weekend after thanksgiving, and
after any advice to great places to eat, things to do etc....
He is a keen snowboader, and I am a beginner skier, so i shall want to