Gasoline $ 2.75 and + here now

It's perfect. Any hotel between 50th and 42nd Street and 3rd and 6th Ave (Ave of the Americas) is good.

Don't drink the water

Bear-mace(large) is available at local sporting-goods' stores



That's why they sell bottled water, everywhere. Even the highest creeks and streams, above timberline, have giardia from small animals. Bring a filter if you're camping. Whiskey works, too...

Too much to do in NYC to name. If you're an art lover, there's a ton of museums. Around 10th avenue between 18 and 25th streets, there are small galleries with some neat stuff (and a lot of crap.) There's the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which I think everyone should go to at least once. There's the Museum of Modern Art, which I also think everyone should go to at least once. The Guggenheim is pretty cool to see, even if you don't go in.

There's the typical tourist things like going up to the Empire State Building (I recommend going at night, but be prepared to wait in line.) Statue of Liberty, (again, lines.) Central Park has a nice little zoo. Broadway is good for musicals and big-name productions, but real theater is 'off-Broadway.' Walking around Chinatown and Little Italy is fun, plus there's a lot of good food. Someone mentioned the Natural History Museum, which is fantastic. Their Planetarium is really awesome, and they usually have a good IMAX movie playing. (some of this can get pricey, though)

Newark Airport is in New Jersey, but they have local trains running into Manhattan. Getting off at Penn Station gets you in a good area to explore.

Smaller boutique hotels are really great, but can get really expensive. ($300+ a night) There's a cheap hotel at 6th and 23rd my friends/family stays at to visit me, and they've never had problems with it, other than it being kind of bland. But at $100-150 a night, can't complain.

I also know a couple good restaurants around if you're curious.

Oh, and the water isn't that bad. It's not like it comes straight from the East River.

Excellent, we'll go with the Radisson Hotel then. We can get a shuttle to the hotel from the airport and one back again, when we're flying to SLC. That's a 1 hour drive according to the website, so that would be nice to have included. That'll cost us about $1.000 total including full breakfast.

I've been thinking about the Museum of Modern Arrrrrrt, that's probably a place we'll go, but yeah, there's so much to see over there. Guess we'll take it a day at a time and see how much we can squeeze in.

We got an email from Maria's cousin, he says: "Zions is a five-hour drive from SLC, and Grand Canyon is another three hours, more or less, from Zions." So that looks like we'll need to find a hotel out there one night if we want to see that, which we probably will.

Grand Canyon information. Informative links.  
More HERE!

We are not all drunks. Some like me are going to AAA.

Zions is a must see if you are into nature and have a car. Grand Canyon is just a big hole in the ground. I cannot believe what they charge people to see it. It can be stunning at times but the tourist thing just kills it. I lived there for a year and it cost me more to eat than what I made. I guess if you have lots of money its OK. If you stay at the Moqui Lodge and the plumbing backs up, Its not my fault.

...22 yrs here, April 1st, but...day's not over yet [maybe absinthe would be o. k.]   

And when I went to school in Flagstaff, one of the more amusing pastimes was to watch the bar patrons blinking myopically in the bright sunlight like moles as they emerged from a day's binge in one of the local watering-holes...




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Lasse, have a ball on your vacation!
There's so much fun stuff to do you'll have to pick and choose carefully!
Take lots of photos so we can see, too!