Onward Ticket Quiery

I'm travelling thru the states from Australia on the visa waiver program soon (90 days max) & don't wish the wasteful expense of buying a plane ticket out of the country (just to satisfy customs entry requirements) that i will probally never use.

I wish to know if immigration will accept (therefore grant me entry) as an onward ticket say, San Diego to Tijuana on a greyhound bus or the like, something very cheap & simple anyway.

Any advice or help on the matter will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Car rental in Los Angeles

Hi,

I've booked a car from Dollar (LAX location), through rentalcars.com, but only after making the reservation did I find out that Dollar would be the company supplying me with a vehicle for my two week stay. I'd never heard of Dollar so I checked out some reviews online (Google reviews and Yelp) and there were tons of horror stories about people waiting in line for hours and being charged way more than the original reservation. This, of course, made me a bit apprehensive about renting a car from Dollar so I sent rentalcars.com an email asking if they could guarantee the price they'd just offered me, I'm still waiting for a reply and if I do not get one or get a negative I will cancel my order.

Now, on to my question. When renting a car in America I see there are lots of different insurance types they try to sell you, but are all these needed? Are you required by law to have so... more »

Planning a road trip around southern states, help needed!

Hi all!
I'm 25 and from England and looking to plan a road trip around the southern states in early June. I'm looking at starting in Houston, Texas, where a friend has a car I may be able to borrow, otherwise I could use the greyhound. I then thought the following:
Houston - New Orleans - Either Jackson/Mobile-Montgomery - Birmingham - Nashville - Memphis - Little Rock - Dallas - Houston
I'm big into the history of the southern states so places like montgomery and little rock ring lots of familiar magnetic bells with me! But I'm reluctant to go to them if there's not much to see.
My time scale is limited - perhaps just over a week/10 days so I want to see the best places and make the most of it.
Also, if I'm going on the greyhound..are there safe hostels a 25 year old female could stay in along the way?
Thanks!
Liz

DC to Luray Caverns?

Hi All,

I'll be traveling with a friend down to Luray Caverns from DC in a couple of weeks. We're looking for any recommendations about where to stay, and any interesting side trips. Neither of us are big hikers. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Amanda

Entering the USA with a beaten-up passport

Hello,

I'm a British guy going travelling across Canada next month and I was hoping to possibly cross the border into America a couple times. However my passport's quite beaten up as I use it for ID, have been across India, Europe with it etc (the gold design on the front has all rubbed off, quite a few pages are creased, generally looks shabby). I've heard the US border guards are very strict and I'm a bit worried they're going to kick up a fuss about it, maybe even refuse me entry.

Any thoughts anyone?

road trip vegas - san francisco

Hi!

I've been searching through the forums, and have found so much information but I'm starting to get a little overwhelmed with it all so thought I'd create my own post

Basically I'd love to hear any advise on travelling (via car) from Las Vegas to San Francisco. The details:

• Leaving Las Vegas 6th May, arriving San Fran 13th May. = one week driving.
• we want to include death valley and yosemite national park (any opinions on how long we should spend at each place? and what are your favourite things to do here?)

Washington DC during spring break

Call me crazy, but the family wants to go to Washington DC during spring break. That would be the one coming up in a couple of weeks. It's parents and kids ages 13 & 9 so we'll be doing the mall, capitol, Smithsonian, etc. We're not planning on getting a car.

What would be a good area to stay? It's late notice, and I'd like to be able to walk to our destinations, or be able to easily take the Metro. I can't tell from the Metro map what is the good stop for the place we want to go (or are there many?). I've looked at hotels and they're in the $300/nt range. REALLY? Would like to stay for less!

Also, any of you that did this trip with your child(ren), what do you recommend that we not miss?

Thanks for any ideas or information!