Thread: Our next jaunt accros the States.

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Johnboy, someone mentioned something about turning in the rental......am I naive to assume this trip is going to be made in the newly transformed Billings school bus???

Originally Posted by rspears

Why are you stuck on flying out of NY?

That was mooted because I didn't realise there are other airports that could handle planes big enough to fly to LA!
I was thinking that the smaller regional airports would be about the same size as New Plymouth.
I tell ya; there's a whole lot I don't know about your country.
It's bloody huge for a start!

Originally Posted by rspears

Driving to either of the major airports in NY (JFK or LaGuardia) is going to be the low light of your whole trip, and taking public transportation from the outlying areas will cost you dearly - think Auckland times six. I would strongly consider flying out of one other major airports in the NE region, like Boston, BWI, Philly, etc.

That sounds like a better idea to me.
Thanks.

Originally Posted by NTFDAY

FWIW, those folks in the Cape Cod area, New England and especially Massachusetts, have a language all their own and are quite hard to understand.

Yeah...well...we'll be totally incomprehensible to them too then.
Kiwis speak an English language that is not always understood by the English...or the Americans!
Ask Roger!

But I'm a Patti Page fan from way back: "You're sure to fall in love with Old Cape Cod."
From that song alone the place has always intrigued me.

Originally Posted by randyr

Johnboy, someone mentioned something about turning in the rental......am I naive to assume this trip is going to be made in the newly transformed Billings school bus???

Randy: the bus is now converted to rhd, and would be awkward to drive in right-hand-drive traffic, besides; last time we shipped it out of the States the shipping company lost it.
It turned up some time later in Singapore!
So I sure as shootin' don't want to chance that again!

John--consider other routings into/out of USA other than LAX

Air New Zealand has a promotion going at the moment that if we fly from LAX we get free flights to LAX from various points within the States, and free flights from Auckland back to New Plymouth.
We're going to see the travel agent today; hopefully we can avail ourselves of these freebies.

I love it when I can save (quite) a few hundred dollars!

Ok, I understand that line of thinking, but LAX isn't where you want to go and its 3000 miles from east coast-------------you have done Chicago to LAX ( rt 66 ) trip and your $$$/Mile/day might be more economically spent by flying to a point more toward the area you haven't seen--
Houstain Intrenational will get you an arrival point near NASA headquarters and after your journey east/north from there you could swing south and leave from many international east part of USA , even as far south as Miami, Fl and make a couple layover stops South America before west to New Zealand--------Maybe I should think about being a travel agent? not with internet cheap flights UGGG

Air NZ doesn't fly direct to Oklahoma City, and although Ok City is not our destination itself, we have many friends we made in Perry and Billings Ok, the area the bus serviced in it working life, and we wish to play catchup with them.
Also; the fella that drove us over most to Rt 66 last time has agreed to chauffeur us again this time.
He and his missus are a very nice down-to-earth couple, and very easy to get on with.
Neither of them are pretentious; nor do they throw hissy-fits!

So that's why we'll fly in to Ok City.

We've been to see the travel agent this morning; and it appears that we can fly out from San Francisco on our return to God's Own and still take advantage of the cheap internal flights.
So that's what we'll do,
Should be all good.

jb, we were typing at the same time! Did you settle on an east coast airport to get you back to San Francisco to catch your Air New Zealand flight back home?

We fly from Barnstable Hyannis airport (Cape Cod,) to Logan International airport in Boston, then on to San Francisco, from there to Auckland, and then to New Plymouth.
Let's hope our luggage keeps up with us!

I'm gonna be a cot-case when we get back home.

Good for nothing.

(Although there's some that would say that about me now!
Beat you to it 34_40, you bear-poker you!)

Originally Posted by johnboy

We fly from Barnstable Hyannis airport (Cape Cod,) to Logan International airport in Boston, then on to San Francisco, from there to Auckland, and then to New Plymouth.
Let's hope our luggage keeps up with us!
I'm gonna be a cot-case when we get back home.
Good for nothing.
(Although there's some that would say that about me now!
Beat you to it 34_40, you bear-poker you!)

You're developing a reputation, Mike, aka The Bear-Poker!

So the end points of the road trip are defined, Oklahoma City to Cape Cod, about a month apart, right? Let the Planning Begin!!!

I would suggest you drive to Boston Logan instead of that flight there from Hyanis

Well.. I guess there are worse reputations to be had! And I have been called worse! LOL

Cape Cod is in my backyard so I'm hopeful our schedules can work..

Computing the optimal road trip across the U.S. | Randal S. Olson

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Computing the optimal road trip across the U.S. | Randal S. Olson

Jerry, I'm curious what value you see this link providing to John & Rosie? I'm sure that Dave Schaub used something similar in planning his 49 states in less than nine days for charity, but what's the point here? Just curious, it's an interesting read, and no harm, no foul. Just wondering if I'm missing some point?