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| amzimmy Elite Veteran Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: South Africa/Italy Vehicle(s): GD300 1981, Alfa GT 3,2 V6, Alfa Brera Q4 3,2 V6. Posts: 850  | Coming to visit USA! My Wife and I will be visiting the beautiful US of A. she will be attending a pulmonary seminar in Salt Lake City at the end of October (2006). Our intention is from the end of Oct to the mid of Nov to travel around. Since I will not be able to take my trusty G with me, we intend to rent a vehicle and visit all the different places. Our aim is basically from Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, may be Las Vegas and then over the Rocky M. to Denver. Now , to have more or less an idea of how to plan this trip I need some little help from some of you guys. ie: where how and what to rent as a vehicle (a G?) how is best to plan the trip, where to go, distances, nice interesting places (not touristy stuff) to visit, where best to overnight etc etc. All this info will help me to organize and book the trip well in advance with the T.Agent in SA. Maybe for obvious reasons you would like to send me something on PM. Many thanks, amzimmy  | |
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| dai Expert Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: Oregon USA Vehicle(s): 300GD 300TD BMW R100RS Landini 80F Posts: 2110  | ||
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| Re: Coming to visit USA! I'll try to help with car rental: Check a website like travelocity.com or expedia.com. You can see the selection and price range of many competitors. If you want to bling-bling, and money grows on trees in SA, check out www.exoticrentals.net. Distances. San Francisco to Los Angeles 5 hours driving 'safe' Los Angeles to Vegas 4 hours driving 'safe' Los Angeles to Mexico 3 hours (dont drive 'into' mexico with the rental) park at the border and walk across. hope that helps... ps. bring one of those money trees  Edited by mcshin 5/14/2006 12:29 PM | ||
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| Redbull Addict Veteran Date registered: May 2006 Location: Morgan Hill, California USA Vehicle(s): '12 G550 Posts: 171  | ||
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| BrentG500 Extreme Veteran Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: US, TX, Dallas Vehicle(s): 2004 G500 (gone) Posts: 449  | ||
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| dai Expert Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: Oregon USA Vehicle(s): 300GD 300TD BMW R100RS Landini 80F Posts: 2110 | ||
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| amzimmy Elite Veteran Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: South Africa/Italy Vehicle(s): GD300 1981, Alfa GT 3,2 V6, Alfa Brera Q4 3,2 V6. Posts: 850 | Re: Coming to visit USA! I am touched  ! You Guys are just Great  ! It just makes the day! I really look forward for a very enjoyable trip. Certainly I will look in all the websites mentioned and get the broad picture of what and what not to do. I did go in my PM and will reply ....thanks! BTW: mcshin, I have one of these trees in my garden, unfortunately it is winter in SA and all the leaves have fallen, but if any new shoots are coming up, you bet, I will bring one with .......... please note that the upkeep of these trees is rather tideous ......it is a 24/7 JOB  ! Thanks guys, amzimmy | |
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| mb230s Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: SWFL Vehicle(s): G-less for now, vintage MBs, FJ40 | ||
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| amzimmy Elite Veteran Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: South Africa/Italy Vehicle(s): GD300 1981, Alfa GT 3,2 V6, Alfa Brera Q4 3,2 V6. Posts: 850 | Re: Coming to visit USA! mb230s - 5/16/2006 3:48 AM If Chicago is worked into you trip I'll buy you a beer. Have a great trip. Thanks for the invite .......will I find Parking?........I am allready debating if I can squeeeeeeze 3800 miles in two weeks without getting a whiplash  amzimmy | |
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| amzimmy Elite Veteran Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: South Africa/Italy Vehicle(s): GD300 1981, Alfa GT 3,2 V6, Alfa Brera Q4 3,2 V6. Posts: 850 | Re: Coming to visit USA! 500 - 5/16/2006 6:32 AM If you are going to be in Salt Lake..? Why not drive 3.5 hours over to Jackson Hole, WY. The Tetons are beautiful, and you can go up to Yellowstone Park..! While in town, you can stay at the Rusty Parrot. Great hotel. The people are really great and the town itself is really cool. No pun intended. Nice time of the year to visit. JMO. Have a great trip..! Sounds plausible, I will make a note of it, .......I discovered......USA is a BIG country.....I need to amplify my holiday time,........ look for an oil-well and........ get myself an Helicopter! This trip will be a "Just-taste Holiday", there will be shortly more trips up my sleeve to the USA  ! Tanks, amzimmy | |
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| MarcO Elite Veteran Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: Irvington, NY Vehicle(s): G 500 SWB, Volvo XC90 V8 Posts: 835 | RE: Coming to visit USA! Hertz (nfi) has both LR3 and Jeep Commander available at most locations though you will pay premium rate for LR3. Also available are Toyota 4Runner and Hummers (if you must ). Enjoy the visit. | |
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| 79percent Extreme Veteran Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: Remscheid / Germany Vehicle(s): 300 GE Posts: 537 | RE: Coming to visit USA! I will be in Detroit Area next two weekends for biz. My company ordered an SUV for me
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| mb230s Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: SWFL Vehicle(s): G-less for now, vintage MBs, FJ40 | ||
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| amzimmy Elite Veteran Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: South Africa/Italy Vehicle(s): GD300 1981, Alfa GT 3,2 V6, Alfa Brera Q4 3,2 V6. Posts: 850 | Re: Coming to visit USA! mb230s - 5/17/2006 7:04 PM I'd consider checking into flights between major cities. The Cali drive is great, others will just waste your vacation. www.southwest.com is great for 1-way no-frills flying. Thanks for the suggestion, I have considered this factor, but Airports are for me the "pits", I spend almost 1/4 of my life in airports, the time that you loose by waiting and shuffling between terminals and getting there is just not our kind of pastime. The other matter is with luggage.....even in bus-class....you are always restricted. Obviously the best is to have an helicopter on standby for the two weeks..........but unfortunately I haven't found THAT darn oil well yet! ;^) So, we would prefer to drive and even if that means to give one ore two days to "racing" through (1600 km/day-1000 ml/day) to get to the "place", we don't mind. amzimmy | |
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| amzimmy Elite Veteran Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: South Africa/Italy Vehicle(s): GD300 1981, Alfa GT 3,2 V6, Alfa Brera Q4 3,2 V6. Posts: 850 | RE: Coming to visit USA! MarcO - 5/17/2006 6:26 PM Hertz (nfi) has both LR3 and Jeep Commander available at most locations though you will pay premium rate for LR3. Also available are Toyota 4Runner and Hummers (if you must ). Enjoy the visit.MarcO, I have surfed the net (such a great commodity) and found all the necessary quotes and rates, .....amaizing that to rent a standard car for two weeks will cost in a region of 800 US$ and for a all-terrain vehicle about 3800 US$  . Here in SA one can find a G for rent (obviously a 460 mod) for much less. thanks for the good wishes, amzimmy | |
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| MarcO Elite Veteran Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: Irvington, NY Vehicle(s): G 500 SWB, Volvo XC90 V8 Posts: 835 | ||
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| martin Veteran Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: Del Mar, CA Isles of Scilly, UK Vehicle(s): 99 G500 95 E300D 95 R1100GS 06 K1200R Posts: 297 | RE: Coming to visit USA! .....amaizing that to rent a standard car for two weeks will cost in a region of 800 US$ and for a all-terrain vehicle about 3800 US$ . Here in SA one can find a G for rent (obviously a 460 mod) for much less. You will get a significantly lower hire rate if you list an address/phone number in the US vs. SA (your hotel for example). Budget, Hertz, Alamo, etc. all have 4WD vehicles for hire at reasonable rates. Enjoy your trip. | |
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| amzimmy Elite Veteran Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: South Africa/Italy Vehicle(s): GD300 1981, Alfa GT 3,2 V6, Alfa Brera Q4 3,2 V6. Posts: 850 | RE: Coming to visit USA! martin - 5/19/2006 1:44 AM .....amaizing that to rent a standard car for two weeks will cost in a region of 800 US$ and for a all-terrain vehicle about 3800 US$ . Here in SA one can find a G for rent (obviously a 460 mod) for much less. You will get a significantly lower hire rate if you list an address/phone number in the US vs. SA (your hotel for example). Budget, Hertz, Alamo, etc. all have 4WD vehicles for hire at reasonable rates. Enjoy your trip. Martin, That's a very nice tip  I certainly will follow-up. Thanks for the good wishes! amzimmy | |
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