Travel Forum / Destinations / USA and Canada / August 2006

Does anyone know if any of the car rental companies do *not* have
drop-off charges for a car rented in (say) Anaheim (California) and
dropped off at LAX?

If you either live in or will travel to the Bay Area (including
Silicon Valley) and specifically San Francisco, do check out
myRedbook.
myRedbook

Like Las Vegas, San Francisco offers prostitution as a tourist
attraction.  If you want to buy some prostitution services (i.e.,
hand job, blow job, or full sexual intercourse), you need to merely
walk through the doors of the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater

I am traveling with my wife and my 7 and 9 year old children.  I'm
going through San Diego and I'll be there for a couple of days.
Where can I get discounted tickets for LegoLand and The San Diego Zoo?
Do you have any other suggestions of places I should see?

The Edmonton Journal reported  14 July 2006, on page B6, with another banner
headline, on yet another case of TORTURE and brutality by the rogue Edmonton
Police.
This case is so serious that even the Alberta Law Enforcement Review Board

I need to get from LAX (preferably) to Tehachapi, California. I either
can't find or can't figure out what bus or train or combination of the
two will get me there. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

I'm Belgian (from Brussels), 20 year old, coming in Montreal for two
weeks and I'd like to discuss with some people from there I could meet
when I come (20th of August. to 03rd Sept.)
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Is it possible in Montreal (Canada) to buy a local SIM card, pop that into
my unlocked GSM phone and easily have a local Montreal tel # that I can
replenish with minutes during my travel there?
This is very very common and easy to do in most of Europe and Asia. But I

If you had 7 days, how much time would you allocate for Minneapolis/St
Paul and Chicago?  I have a friend who lives between Minneapolis and St
Paul, so I might visit him in September or October.  Or do you think I
should spend all 7 days there, and skip Chicago?

We are planning a couple of weeks in California en route elsewhere..
Don't want to take all the cases around with us on a fly drive, need to
store some at LAX.
Have found these people through Google:

Is there an international tourist faire in the United States for
Business2Business contacts? I am a tour operator from Switzerland and would
like to offer my services to a partner in the United States. Does anyone
know?

I know somebody who would love to arrive in NY by boat - are there any
nearby cities that have a boat service to NYC? Coming over from the UK,
it would be nice to fly into somewhere other than JFK/Newark etc. so
the first sight of the city is on the water. Any ideas most welcome :o)

Looking to see if anyone has used Hotwire for booking a hotel near the
Mall of America. If so please reply and let me know which hotel you
ended up with and at what price.
Thanks

Soon I will be traveling from Kingman, AZ to Reno, NV and I am not
familiar with the two routes.  Route 93 to Vegas and 95 toward Reno
appears the shortest but going west to Barstow and taking 395 north is
suggested by many of the trip routing services as being the fastest

Yea regulation of gas prices are working real good in New Brunswick
best fill up before you go there.
Approximately 90 New Brunswick gas retailers shut off their pumps
Tuesday to pressure the government into raising the regulated pump