windywave wrote:
satanellus wrote:
windywave wrote:
Ironnerd wrote:
windywave wrote:
Ironnerd wrote:
Thanks for all of the awesome advice and ideas. If the trip goes well we plan to park up the RV over the US winter and return the following year to do Canada and Alaska. Perhaps parts of South America the following year.
We bought a "America is Beautiful" National Park pass.
As a shake down trip we spent a few days in San Diego and went to the zoo. We have just spent three nights in the amazing Yosemite national park. We are heading to Lake Tahoe today.
As a rough guide we are going to follow this route.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/...ltimate-us-road-trip
As we get to each state we are going to work out what we want to see and plan a route through the state.
We are going to do it in the reverse direction to try and make to most of the warmer summer weather in the north and try and avoid busy national parks over the peak summer holidays. The southern states we will do as the weather gets colder.
Once thanks for all of the advice and ideas. I will include them in our trip.
Avoiding Chicago? Hmmm
After all of your posts describing Chicago as the gang murder capital of the USA I wouldn't want to miss it. 😀
Just avoid certain neighborhoods and you'll be fine, kinda like avoid certain snakes in Australia in the top 5 most venomous list and you won't die.
Yes and no.
Certainly the best way to avoid snakebite in Australia is simply to leave snakes alone. Two recent and avoidable deaths in Queensland have been the result of men, untrained in the handling of venomous snakes, attempting to remove Eastern Brown Snakes from the grounds of a school and a childcare centre.
Although Australia is blessed with over 30 dangerously venomous snake species, (including some found in the suburbs of all our capital cities), plus another 12 potentially dangerous species, and over 30 species of dangerously venomous seasnake inhabiting our tropical waters, death from snakebite is an exceedingly rare occurrence. Among a population of 26.5 million, we average about 2 deaths per year.
That's the equivalent of one gun death in Chicago every 5 years.
Pretty simple really.
a) I like snakes generally, and particularly the remarkable diversity we have in Australia.
b) They are relatively benign creatures, but surrounded by misconceptions and misinformation. I enjoy addressing those fears and prejudices.
c) The concept of foreigners, especially Americans, viewing Australia and its wildlife as inordinately dangerous is amusing.
d) A serious reply need not preclude having fun while being informative. Not for me, anyway.
e) As for you, I don't give a shit if you find my responses tedious. 😉
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