Travel Site U.S.A

Las Vegas

2009-11-05T09:58:00.001-06:00

"The Entertainment Capital of the World" so they say or Sin City
Fremont Street Experience good for people watching .
Bellagio nice experience get room looking over the Fountain. The service is great also
Use the public bus when on the Strip it's cheap and real easy to use
Zumanity is a fun and sexy Cirque du Soleil
Get married it takes a little doing so dont be drunk.
Stratosphere rides.
The Gun Store shoot a machine gun.
Valley of Fire State Park a little drive but well worth it.
Hoover Dam .

Niagara Falls

2009-11-04T10:47:00.002-06:00

Honeymoon Capital of the World.
Sheraton on the Falls Hotel rooms at the front offer amazing views of the American and Canadian Falls.
Tim Horton's suck.
Maid of the Mist takes tourists to the foot of the falls on a boat.
Brick City Lego city .
Fireworks over the Falls.

Memorial for Nikola Tesla do to his work on the worlds first A/C hydropower plant.

Venice Beach and Santa Monica

2009-11-03T06:34:00.000-06:00

Chess Park south of the pier.
Santa Monica Pier old-fashioned amusement park.
Santa Monica Beach
Venice Ocean Front Walk retailers , tourist souvenier shops, bike rental outlets, arts and crafts booths, restaraunts, tattoo , chair massages , fortune tellers and the people watching

Hollywood

2009-11-02T14:38:00.001-06:00

Grauman's Chinese Theater opened in 1927 and is home to the cement footprints, handprints.Movies are shown for $10 and many street performers out side.
Hollywood Sign most recognizable landmark high up in Griffith Park
Walk of Fame
Mulholland Drive views out across Los Angeles are great.
Guitar Center is funny to go into bunch of dudes trying out guitars but more so trying to show off like they were on stage.

Downtown

2009-11-02T14:34:00.000-06:00

Chinatown centered around North Broadway , it has a wide, main, busy street filled with little stores and restaurants. Mid point of Broadway in Chinatown is an open market like those found in Hong Kong.
Union Station , Los Angeles's historic Train Station. Station was built in 1939 with a Spanish mission exterior.
Staples Center , Lakers , Kings ,Clippers and Sparks plus many concerts
Dodger Stadium , Los Angeles Dodgers

Los Angeles

2009-11-02T14:26:00.000-06:00

Los Angeles is the largest city in California and the second largest in the U.S
Estimated population of 3.8 million
Average high temperatures of 74–84 °F and lows of 58–66 °F , An average of 263 sunshine days and only 35 days measurable rain
Los Angeles suffers from air pollution due to being in a valley
Los Angeles is known as the "Gang Capital of U.S"

Alaska Cruises

2009-10-30T13:22:00.000-05:00

Seward most of the time is the most north port on any cruise the best part here would be the fresh sea food. but most of the time its a busy time for people because this is the beging or the end of the cruise ship.
Haines dosnt have much to offer but a bit more scenic and has some history muesem.
Juneau is nice, lots of shopping some fast food and hiking .
Ketchikan has a lot of shopping because this is the kast port for many and often better prices you've seen in other stops.
Anchorage is a large city lots to do , plenty of places to eat , nice parks and shopping. There are homeless people and everything that come along with that.
Fairbanks is fun, Pattle boat rides , Panning for gold and seeing the Pipe line

MGM Studio's

2009-10-30T11:28:00.000-05:00

When you first get to MGM, you need to ride the Tower of Terror and Aerosmith's Rock N Roller Coaster first. The lines get long fast plus both rides are close to each other
Prime Time Cafe small retro kitchen settings with tv's showing our fave sitcoms of the day . Fabulous service by our "cousins", lots of Mom's rules to follow, comradory among each kitchen's guests, and really, really good food.
Watch and play along Who Wants to be a Millionaire lots of fun.

Magic Kingdom

2009-10-30T11:21:00.000-05:00

The best place to watch the fireworks at Magic Kingdom is from the ferry.
Go to Space Mountain first in the morning most people go to Frontierland first.
Some timess of the year, the fireworks don't always go off at closing time, most people don't know that this leaves the park empty

EPCOT

2009-10-30T11:14:00.000-05:00

Mission Space ride mite be the best ride at Disney World.
Illuminations: Reflections of Earth fire works mite also be the best also at Disney World
Ice Station Cool has Coke products from around the world.

Downtown Disney

2009-10-30T10:08:00.000-05:00

Visit Disney Quest located in the Downtown Disney area. For about $25/person, you get unlimited use of five stories of the latest video games, virtual reality rides, and other entertainment.
Lego store is fun
Cirque du Soleil is a must see, no matter the age all kids and parents will be amazed.
Pleasure Island has the nite life a bit pricy.
McDonald's to Planet Hollywood plus many other places to eat on your disney meals.
And many small shops for snakes to souvenirs

Walt Disney World Resort Vacation Packages

2009-10-29T10:14:00.000-05:00

Vacation Packages are great everybody i've talked to about these are always happy and think they are a good value.
Check with your local travel agent and compare with online rates often they do not charge any more but offer more.

Disney World Resort Vacation food package

2009-10-29T10:09:00.001-05:00

bring along a package of large 32oz dixie cups from home instead of caring around your "Refillable Resort Drink Mug" because its hard to carry all day at the parks.
Don't miss out on planning your Table-Service Meal its your nicer sit down meals .

Its hard to say which Table-Service Meal you should plan, there are many to chose from.

Shopping

2009-10-16T13:12:00.000-05:00

Jax Brewery feels like a mall any where in the U.S but mostly tourist stuff
Jax Brewery food court and balconies lookin out towards the river
Riverwalk Marketplace another mall with the same feel but with more to offer and some higher end stuff
The Shops at Canal Street high end stuff like Saks Fifth Avenue lots of shopping
Magazine Street lots of shopping streched out over a long distance so parking can a pain
Magazine Street these are the unique stores
Royal St and Chartres St in the French Quarter are good for arts and antiques
Decatue St is great for Souvenirs

Aquarium of the Americas

2009-10-09T16:37:00.002-05:00

Cool place on a hot day
$18 a adult and took about 3 hours
The pictures and the brochures make the walk though under water tank look like something its not, its no bigger than what you see in the pictures
We went when they first opened at 10am and that worked out good because they were feeding everything at that time
Also the employees were very interactive early
The Penguins are fun to watch and could of for hours also the Sea Otters
Being so close to the White Alligator was cool
My wife touched a small shark and a sting ray
but we spent most of our time at the big tank that had larger sharks and a huge school of fish that just did lap after lap that made for some good pictures
Like i said good place to beat the heat and if you have kids im sure you would spend many hours there

http://www.auduboninstitute.org/aquarium.html

Museums

2009-10-07T20:29:00.004-05:00

http://www.nationalww2museum.org/

My favorite museum was the National World War II Museum
Its a few blocks away from the French Quarter.
The main reaason this nice meseum is here is because of Andrew Higgins who designed and built the landing craft credited for winning World War II.
The Higgins boat only make up a small part of the museum.
There are many short movies about the war and many relics.
The museum is set up like a oneway street so you start at the beging of the war and walk though till the end so you wont miss anything.
$20 to get in and you can find coupons on brochures.
I also went to the old U.S mint. Its a big old building and its free to get in but there isnt much there thats why its free.
Unless you collector of old money not much to see. The best part for me was two old light bulbs over a display.
A better place to goto for old money is a Antique store on Royal Street plus they had antique guns mostly old flint lock type.
Next door to the St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square is the Louisiana State Museum .
$6 to get in and worth it .
First floor is about the native people and the first euopean.
Second floor Louisiana Purchase and the growth of New Orleans.
Third floor is mostly Slavery, Cilvil War and it being a port city trading goods with the world

The Spooky New Orleans

2009-10-07T14:12:00.001-05:00

It being October now and with the cooler weather New Orleans feels a little more spooky. We started our day off going to the St. Louis #1 cemetery near the French Quarter its only open during the day. It would be cool if someone could do night tours but i understand why they dont. Most of it is in bad shape but we did see some nice tombs with some recent dates on them. There is a constant flow of tours going on all day so it is sometimes hard to get the picture you want with out some in the pic. If you ver off the main path it gets muddy in some spots. It is also just out side of the Quarter so its best if you go with a group.It is a must see when in New Orleans. That evening we went to a haunted house on the north side of Canal St. the "Mortuary" it was called $15 with a coupon from their web site and well worth it. A well done haunted house with almost Hollywood make up a Amusement Park setting it may ruin other haunted house for me.
http://www.themortuary.net/

Bourbon Street

2009-10-07T05:57:00.000-05:00

I have mixed feeling about Bourbon Street. We ate at a few good resturants that where just off Bourbon St like Sugar Shack and JägerHaus. Beside that just walked up and down it hoping for something other than drunk collage kids bumping into you and puffing up their chest looking for a fight. Or they guys high pressure push to get you into their Bar or Resturant. The stripers trying to get you to come inside and when you ingnor them they call you gay or fat. The cops were fun to watch, they would tell all the dudes " keep it moving" then would hit on their girlfriends. So i always went to Bourbon St but didn't do much. But i cuoldn't imagain what it would be like during Mardi Gras

Canal Street

2009-10-06T15:02:00.001-05:00

Canal Street was great for people watching while my wife went shopping for junk to bring home. It has a huge side walk down both side so plenty of room to distance your self from some people. Like the guy that sold Nola shirts out of a box, but the bad part was every day he would mop his area. it didn't look any cleaner just pushed the dirt around a bit. or the guy that asked for money all the time which isn't to strange either but he wore a coat that he had to cut up to little pieces. Its also funny to watch the guy with the spinneers drive past the loud over sized 4x4. the drunks trying to cross 4 lanes of traffic and a rail crossing.The call girls speed walking out of the hotels and down the street. Beisde people watching Canal St is good for buying beads , eating fast food and buying alcohol, if you have a way to keep beer cold in your room goto CVS and pay normal prices.

The drive

2009-10-06T14:11:00.000-05:00

Me and my wife came from Illinois so the drive is real easy I-55 then east on I-10 just before you get to New Orleans. When your about 20 miles out of town and having never been there before you think your in a different world , You see house's but no yards, Bridges but no cars. Then when your just about in town you see a grass hill with a concrete wall on top then it fells like your in any town U.S.A. Once we passed that concrete wall or the levee we needed gas i was cutting it close. The streets were busy leaving the gas station so i figuard i would go around the block to get back to I-10. I cant turn left here I cant turn left there so right it is. well i cant turn left here either but i can in the middle of the block strange. Come to find out you cant turn left at a intersection only Uturns in mid blocks, strange but after a week i kinda liked it.