Travel Forum / Destinations / USA and Canada / December 2007

Watch the TV ads. The best gifts always go fast. Excellent
deconstruction of a television ad. This format would be an especially
effective way to educate children about the ads they see on kid-
oriented TV, ...

It seems fashionable right now in the USA among young people to kill people
in large numbers by automatic pistols and rifles. Weird.

We are considering spending 7 - 10 days there in January and would welcome
any observations or advice, it's kinda expensive

As all San Franciscans do, we paid our annual visit to the City of
Paris to visit the tree. Well! The Texans running the place chose to
not use the wonderful Paul Verdier ornaments we've all known and loved
since before we were born. The only ornaments were many-sized silver

I'm traveling from the UK in February and are planning on travelling
from Toronto ON to Niagara and then onto Cleveland OH.
Thing is I'm having trouble booking Greyhound bus tickets for the
journeys. They will accept international credit cards but I can't seem

We're going to be in NYC for a few days next summer (July) and it
seems that finding a "decent priced" room is going to be difficult.
Since we'll be arriving on a saturday afternoon it seems the prices
will even be higher that during weekdays. We looked at hotels just

A newspaper article of Helsingin Sanomat reveals today that since the
murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King in 1968 more US Americans
have died in "civilian" shootings than in all wars combined during the US
history. Isn't this dandy. Isn't this crazy.

I haven't been to Myrtle Beach for quite a number of years. I am going to
be there in March on a family vacation with my high school age teenage kids
and their girlfriend/ boyfriend will be travelling with us.
I will pick a condo unit on the beach........ What would be a better ( ...

A popular American airline company has recently has teamed up with
Yahoo and Research in Motion (RIM) to offer this Wireless Internet for
its passengers..
http://askwiki.blogspot.com/2007/12/now-access-internet-while-flying.html

Info on Sandbridge Beach , Va. http://www.webspawner.com/users/hwww/sandbridgebeach.html

I'm thinking of heading down to Cumberland and/or Salem Counties in New
Jersey later this month.  They are in the southernmost portion of NJ,
adjacent to the Delaware Bay.
What would be your recommendations for sightseeing, restaraunts,

Doesn't this idolizing of firearms ever cease in the USA. Even Beirut is a
safer place than the streets of the US towns. Now, at least nine people have
been shot to death by a madman. This seems to happen VERY often in the USA.

Airline research: wanted travellers for business purposes
Are you sometimes travelling by airlines for business purposes? If
yes, we are looking for you!
For a research of the University of Leuven (Belgium) we want to ask

Navigating using maps can be very frustrating especially if you are
doing so while driving your car. This becomes even stressful when you
are driving all alone in a strange territory...
http://articlesupdates.googlepages.com/traveling_car_gps