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Coming from a non-American, Texas and Florida or Louisiana sound like the most fun.

>>1286560
Interesting

I'm mainly wanting to explore some nice nature areas/mountains/beaches. Really good public transport would be a big benefit too.

>>1286556
Kentucky, North Carolina
Mountains and beaches...good luck for PT in America
>Atlanta
That's not a state, nigga

>>1286302
I'm not familiar with AirBnB but she fucked up, so she should fix it. Can't she cancel it herself?

>>1286323
She does not want to.. says she needs to call to AirBnB US via phone and it's not worth it..

She says she will refund me her payment if I cancel, but not AirBnB fee.

I guess I can't make her cancel it. Only report her it seems..

It was last minute booking and now instead of enjoying vacation I need to deal with this. That's what bothers me the most.

>>1286328
Then tell her to refund you or you'll report her to airbnb. Yell if you have to, "I don't want to" isn't an excuse

>>1286256
Miles are only worth if if you actually spend a lot of money traveling as the actual status miles that will give you perks/multiplier come 100% from flights. So the card miles just supplement your mile income for free flights/upgrades at a pretty low rate
>1 mile for every $2 you spent or even less

You would be better off with a card that offers you something like 2-5% cash back on all transactions.

>>1286262
Thank you, that makes sense. How much do you guess you need to spend before the multiplier is worth it?

>>1286256
I got a sapphire preferred in February and i have accumulated $1200 in travel rewards since then. Although they number is overstated because most of the points came from sign-up bonuses and shit.

>>1286167
Valencia is dull. Visit the Aquarium and the zoo. You will visit the city center in like 10 minutes. Who the fucks goes to Valencia?

Don't eat paella at the tourist places, it's crap. Go where locals go.

>>1286186
if that pictures is valencia it looks pretty cool desu, and most spanish people i know tell me to go there to try the paella bc it's shit everywhere else in spain

>>1285785
what do you mean exactly by vagabonding or nomad traveling?
I think at the moment they call it "trash-packing"

anyway I've been out "trashpacking" for six or seven months, so if you have any questions

>>1285881
As in without a budget, designated place to stay, no real plan, sort of just going where the wanderlust takes you. They're called dirty kids here, but I'm not sure I wanted that image tied to me/not sure if it's just a regional title.


Where have you been doing this/how have your camping experiences been? I

>>1285883
traveling without a budget is inadvisable, especially for those on a tight budget.
I keep a budget so I can look back on a week and see what caused me to over-spend.

having no real plan is also inadvisable, planning in advance takes the stress out of travel.
when I was wandering aimlessly I lost half the time I had stumbling around, it's a heavily romantisized notion.
and a lack of planning is also going to cost you money
for instance I took two night busses, had a shower in a bucket in a park, ate bread for two days and only afterwards discovered I could have just got a flight for the same price if I had booked more than a week or two in advance.

"camping" is a funny one.
I found real camping at camp sites to be expensive and a waste of everyones time. the sites are unusally in less valuable land ei. away from rivers etc and cost as much as a hostel if you are solo.
"wild camping" was cool, but not something to undertake lightly. There is a very serious risk of crime, especially in more developed countries; traveling solo it may well be an undue risk.
It only took me getting robbed once when trying to find somewhere to sleep for me to loose all the money I had saved previously.

couchsurfing, finding random people to put you up, taking night busses are all much better options.
a combination of sleeping drugs (don't overdo it) and night trains/busses can save you so much

in regional areas asking the permission of farmers etc worked well, anyone with enough land to feel safe.
but I found frequently in asia these attempts were met most often with confusion and hostility.
I was set up in what looked like jungle, but turned out to be "claimed" cland, some farmer turns up thinking I'm going to take his land, is confused that I'm white and unsure what I'm doing, points me to town thinking I'm lost.
happened a few times

Err, plenty of off roading if you want to....
But the roads to both canyon rims are paved. At least to the big views and visitor centers. There are tons of forest service roads out there that go right up to the rim, all of them dirt or gravel.
For regular road use I see no problem with the Mazda 3, especially if it's new. Overheating is the biggest danger for a car out there.
Any reason for going all the way to Nevada? Grand Canyon proper is in Arizona. North rim is higher elevation and forested, south rim is classic desert.

>>1285799
We just felt like sight seeing all the Area 51 attractions and stopping by and seeing all the attractions on the way to the destination. We'll be going through plenty of states so there's going to be a lot to see.

Any tips on making sure your car doesn't overheat out there?

>>1285822
With a modern car you shouldn't have any trouble with overheating. It's only really a problem on steep uphill grades in older, underpowered, or very heavy vehicles.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling

>>1285768
You're allowed to bring 1L of spirits over 20%. Do you homework, asshole

>>1285765
>Is it legal?
Obviously not, but nobody's going to stop you or give half a shit.Take a carton of cigarettes as well.
>How should we do it and where is the best place?
Find some obvoiusly drinking working class guy, preferably a Eastern European immigrant.
>how much should we charge?
I'd say about 60-70% of price in Vinmonopolet.

I hitchhiked at the more rural areas. A Japanese guy wrote me a signs for my destination and it worked. Knowing some basic conversational japanese also helps.

>>1285716
Thank you

I'm japanese, and we never hichhike usually, so I don't think such app or website exist.
but hichhiking is not impossible, though you may wait longer than other countries

Forgot to mention, I used to work but had to quit because college was beating the shit out of me. All the money I saved during the previous summer break went straight to college :/

What country are you in? One of the first things I learned on my first (and only) trip abroad was that I don't appreciate my homeland enough. If you have a car (or atleast access to one) and some friends take them on a road trip. Sleep at campgrounds and plan ahead for meals to save money.

Of course I also am able to subsist on terrible conditions if the experience in the area is worth it.

>P.S. Saw Shwedagon Pagoda in person, neat but filthy

>>1285094
US (OR more specifically). Yea my friends and I travel around oregon a lot (mostly to areas with a large body of water to swim OR waterfalls). Though it is fun, I want to experience different cultures/traditions/religions(?). Plus my friends are becoming less and less reliable for trips as they're going through their own troubles.
Also, dude that is awesome that you got to see Shwedagon Pagoda. Did you go get the chance to go inside?

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If I'm staying for a month, do I need to purchase multiple JR Passes (21 days + 14) or can I hang on to the 21 day and re-activate it at the end of its period?

Airserve's instruction is to purchase the pass BEFORE I arrive and receive an exchange voucher in the mail. Is this actually necessary? Can I not just purchase directly from the JR office in-person?

Hey everyone, question: has anyone ever booked tickets/a tour through Viator? It's this site that I guess is affiliated with Trip Advisor?

My girlfriend and I want to go to the Sumo tournament next month. We tried booking through the official website as soon as tickets became available but it was like the latest Yeezy or Supreme drop or something. The site was overwhelmed with traffic and then all the tickets were sold.

Then I found Viator, and it looks like they have tickets but you do have to go as part of a tour group and stop at the sumo museum first and then go to Ryogoku together. I'm okay with this.

The tickets are reasonably priced and given how fast the initial release sold almost seems to good to be true.

Any experience buying or doing some kind of tour with them? Thanks.

>>1284642

The JR Pass is is used for one range of dates. So a 21 day pass is good for the 21 days after the first day of use (you select what day that is at the JR Pass office). If you're there for more than 21 days, try and arrange your travel so you have some slack time where you don't need the pass. i.e., 7 days in Tokyo at the start, etc.

You can buy the pass in Japan, but it's more expensive by 10-20%. It's very easy to purchase the pass and they ship it via Fedex next-day air.

skip korea, allocate 2/3s of the days you wouldve spent there to japan and the other 1/3 to china.

>>1284083
Why so?

>>1284088
>Why so?
boring country, anything you can find there japan or china has a better version of it. Literally the best activity in South Korea is to sit in a PC bang and play video games, that's how shit the country is.

>>1283536
Tallinn is a nice city, but it's flooded with loud and annoying Italian/German/Chinese tourists every morning/early afternoon since a lot of cruises come there.

Sarajevo is kind of small and boring

>>1283536
Vilnius>Tallinn IMO

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I currently live in San Diego, so San Fran is probably colder than here... but in my experience California has sort of unpredictable heat. It hit almost 90 where I live in October (that was unusual), but can drop to about 50 at night. A safe bet would probably be around an average of 65-80 degrees. I almost never need more than a sweat shirt. It's probably good for sleeping on the beach.

If you do want to stray a little bit from LA, I do love it here in San Diego... less commotion than LA I think. Good Mexican food (California burrito with carne asada, cheese, and french fries = GOAT). Nice beaches. La Jolla and Ocean Beach are great places to bring friends and grill wieners on the sand or burn tons of firewood.

It also has some really awesome views. This pic isn't mine, but its from road I drive on once and a while one Mount Soledad.

>>1283299
WALID

>>1284844

We will be in LA for two days and San Diego for three and we have no plans but to explore both cities. Also could you recommend good areas to get hotels or airbnbs?

Pardon the early bump, but I think some background is necessary. Like I said, I had the opportunity to attend McGill in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, but I decided to attend a university in Ohio that offered me generous scholarship money as my parents basically told me that if I wanted to attend post-secondary schooling that the financial burden was mine.

I majored in English, classics, and history because I wanted to teach k-12, but particularly 7-12. I won't ask you to reserve comment, but I like to think schooling in America once had an esteemed reputation or at least a proud tradition, but now I really hesitate to go down that road. Along the way, I graduated and landed a job in Bellingham, WA for a software company as a translator that I ultimately declined due to familial issues, but I also kick myself for this.

Ultimately, some family relocated to Austin, TX and I decided to pal around and join them. I landed a job as a marketer at a credit union. I ended up working at a university in Austin. I could have stayed, but ultimately I decided to move back to Ohio after the family members I came with moved to Florida.

Ohio was the reset button option. I think it's a great place for me to figure stuff out. In other words it serves to account for the changes in my life and elsewhere as I plot the next move. But it is not without its challenges. Cincinnati, like most of the state and, really the geographic region, is in the grips of a pretty nasty heroin epidemic. The economy is not great, and cannot hold a candle to Austin certainly. That's not to say that Austin did not have its issues with employment. I'll not make outrageous claims about Ohio that I have heard such as it's worse now economically then it was in 2007-2008, but admittedly as aforementioned things are not great. Most of all though, there's too much history here. Too many memories...not all good ones. These roads are too well trodden for me to want to stick around. My hope is to find the right place.

>Are you happy where you live?
Fuck no. I live in a suburb of Mexico City, and every day I grow more and more tired of this shithole. I hate the city and its people, and all kinds of bad news that seem to flourish in this land. That's why every penny I make goes towards traveling and maybe someday settling abroad.

Now, I didn't read that wall of text of yours, but my top 3 favorite American cities for personal reasons are these:

>NYC, especially Brooklyn
>Berkeley
>Seattle

If I could I'd move there. I love those places for various reasons.

I'd go to Portland or Denver, just because I like the landscape and weed.

>>1286955
Sounds pretty fucked anon, what did they take?

>>1286965
200 of their joke currency and my european healthcare card.

>>1286978
> I was drunk and had lost my keys.

Were you unruly?
Why are you drunk?