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30 Jul 18, 11:16 PM |
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30 Jul 18, 11:21 PM |
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We spent Easter 2017 in Texas and loved it. Can't remember if I did a brief highs and lows on here.
ETA - found the highs and lows post, and also another post of itinery We had a blast Highs were tubing on the Comal and Guadalupe - real 'lazy rivers' where you rent a tube, get dropped off then picked up a couple of hours downstream. Six Flags Parks - preferred San Antonio to Dallas, but plenty of huge coasters and rides to keep the kids happy for a couple of days. Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch where instead of the UK windows closed safari park, they actually give you bags of food to feed the animals - feeding the zebra and watching the wilderbeest stampede was brilliant. San Antonio - we visited the Alamo and Buckhorn Museum/Attraction. It kind of reminded me of York with people visiting for the history and paying too much for parking, food and souvenirs. Texas Rangers ball game at Arlington. It was an experience and we learned a lot about baseball. Stockyards and Rodeo at Fort Worth - informative and fun. The food - loads of Mexican food, really cheap and tasty, and we always like a seafood buffet. Lows were the smallest boy getting an tummy upset on the 6 hour drive from Corpus Christi to Fort Worth - it added about another hour and a half with all of the 'restroom' stops. Alamo car hire. Worst car experience that we've had in 10 trips to the USA. Did the straight to the garage thing - took 2 hours to sort the paperwork at home due to website issues, then got turned back to the desk at the exit with further problems. Have used Budget, Avis, Dollar and Enterprise in the past with no issues. This is the second c&p post We flew into Dallas, went to Six Parks, JFK Museum, and an aircraft museum somewhere. Drove from Dallas to San Antonio via the Dr Pepper Museum and a massive Bucee's gas station with 120 pumps! Visited The Alamo (and still don't understand what the fuss is about - shhhh!) and The Buckthorn restaurant/museum thing - google it! Went to Six Flags, and tubing on the Comal (Rockin R Rides or something similar), and the Natural Cavern Wildlife Ranch. Then down to Corpus Christi, the beach, the USS Lexington, and chill for a day or two. Back up to Fort Worth stopping at New Braunfels to tube the Guadalope which was bigger and scarier. Watched a ball game at Arlington, went to the Rodeo at the Stockyards enjoyed the last days of warm. Edited at 11:25 PM. |
3 Aug 18, 02:14 AM |
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How old are your kids? Ours were 14 and 11 when we did our first US road trip and they coped fine. We tried to mix it up between 1 night stays and longer stays and didn’t drive longer than around 3 hours a day and it was great. We’ve done road trips in California, Texas, the Rockies (Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Rocky Mountain, Utah), Tennessee and are currently in New England.
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5 Aug 18, 03:12 AM |
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Obviously OP you haven't mentioned the ages of your children but I have to disagree with this re LV we were there last year with our aged 17/15 and they loved it there. There is loads to do in LV with children inc a day out to Hoover Dam an hours drive away.
All I spam saying is don't rule LV out.
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5 Aug 18, 03:23 AM |
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RE California I don't think you should rule it out But I think you need to research what you want to see, what is achievable and how long you plan to be there for.
It's a vast state, as stated previously mine were 17/15 and were able to cope with the travelling BUT we only had 2 one night stops. Our route over a month was. Fly to LA drive out of LA north to be in a better position for onward journey. Staying at Paso dobles ( to visit Pismo , hated it and Morro bay) Monterey, SF , Yosemite, Death Valley, LV before returning to LA. La is like one massive car park, research what you actually want to do as you may require 2 seperate locations. Virginia As a child on a school trip we stayed just outside Richmond but visited Washington, Williamsburg inc Busch Gardens and Virginia beach would love to visit again as an adult.
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5 Aug 18, 09:09 AM |
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We did 8 days in San Diego last year and still didn't manage to see and do everything. It's a beautiful city, tons to do and the people are lovely and so friendly. Our kids loved it and can't wait to go back.
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7 Aug 18, 08:42 PM |
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We are flying into Boston as I got mega cheap reward flights with Virgin back in their January sale.
two days later we fly to Phoenix and then up to the Grand Canyon for a few days, driving back to Scottsdale Arizona for 5 days then flying back to Boston again, travelling around up there and a quick trip to the Outlets in New Hampshire for tax free shopping. I follow Melbatb and her trip reports on here they have done a lot of Canada and have just done ( or are still in the process of doing New England ,which has given me more ideas) |
7 Aug 18, 08:55 PM |
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3 stops, max 4 with kids over 2 weeks. I've done tons with the kids.
Good ones include Washington- Rehobeth (with day trip across to Cape May)- Blue Ridge Mountains. Atlanta- Smokies- Myrtle (optional)- Hilton Head. Vegas- Flagstaff- Sedona- St George (Zion) NYC- Cape Cod- Hershey ( Hershey Park great coasters). Atlanta (Can do Six Flags and stay a few days)- San Destin / Seaside (great area on Florida Panhandle)- St Simon's Island/ Jekyll Island. We've done all the above and more- kids have enjoyed, all reasonable driving and not too tiring. Myself and my wife have done many, many more before we had kids. I will eventually get to every state.
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7 Aug 18, 09:04 PM |
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Another not to be missed park on this route just north of Richmond is Kings Dominion.
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9 Aug 18, 05:55 PM |
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