# Holiday in USA **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 9, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-in-usa/432889 "2008-01-09T19:11:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-in-usa/432889/41 "2008-01-10T14:02:01Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] On the face of it I would appear to be heading to Rhode Island yet again but this time I figure with a bit of planning I can get to see a fair bit of New England. [/QUOTE] Yeah, well… Get yourself to Boston. Dopefest! ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-in-usa/432889/42 "2008-01-10T14:15:21Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Sodding big polar bears that’s what [/QUOTE] Not in most of the parts of Alaska where tourists go. You really have to go to far northern Alaska to see polar bears. ---
**Author:** ![krisolov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krisolov/32/3724_2.png) [@krisolov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krisolov)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-in-usa/432889/43 "2008-01-10T14:43:03Z")
Upstate NY is beautiful in August. Visit Saratoga, see the horses, then roll through New England. Perfect time to visit that area! ---
**Author:** ![Ro\_Carter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@Ro\_Carter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ro_Carter)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-in-usa/432889/44 "2008-01-10T14:59:25Z")
I always was a little sorry for people from England and other smallish island nations, where you can’t go on road trips where it takes a good three days solid of driving just to get from point A to point B. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-in-usa/432889/45 "2008-01-10T15:00:20Z")
Four weeks from late August? You should look up the Great American Beer Fest and see if it would fit in your schedule to be in Colorado at that time.(Im at work so I can’t check the dates on a beer related site). You would fall to your knees in thanks to god to see some of the amazing beer we make over here. 1600+ beers, need I say more? ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-in-usa/432889/46 "2008-01-10T15:20:01Z")
Another Colorado thing depending on the dates you settle on. There are a lot of good music festivals up in the mountains all summer. You might be a bit late for most of them, but here’s one in August. > **[Rocky Mountain Folks Festival — Planet Bluegrass • Colorado Music Festivals...](https://bluegrass.com/folks/)** > > Tickets for the 2024 Folks Festival will go on sale in February. To make sure you stay in the loop, scroll to the bottom of this page and enter you email address to join our mailing list. We look forward to seeing you next August! I’ve never been to that one but I’m considering it this year. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-in-usa/432889/47 "2008-01-10T16:06:18Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Yeah, well… Get yourself to Boston. Dopefest! [/QUOTE] Been there, the place I discovered that Paul Revere lived in a really tatty little house down some back street. Lunched on Boston Common and met a very nice couple from Kansas and we still exchange cards and letters I was surprised that Revere’s home wasn’t guarded by guys dressed as minutemen and that the place was decidedly grubby, hardly befitting of an American hero I thought. **Wolfman** I’ve tasted American beer ☹ and it has to be said that Sam Adams is absolute crap…well it is in Michigan anyway ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-in-usa/432889/48 "2008-01-10T16:10:41Z")
No No No, Nothing mass produced. Well actually they are there, but nobody bothers with them(except Sam Adams Utopias, man that is smooth). It’s all about the craft, mini, and micro brewers at the GABF. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-in-usa/432889/49 "2008-01-10T18:02:45Z")
Hey, **chowder** , when you were in RI did you eat yourself? If so, red or white? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-in-usa/432889/50 "2008-01-10T18:06:33Z")
[QUOTE=Caricci] Hey, **chowder** , when you were in RI did you eat yourself? If so, red or white? [/QUOTE] We had this conversation once. He ate the stuff that was not a product of Satan’s ass. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-in-usa/432889/51 "2008-01-10T18:32:08Z")
The white chowder is the _only_ chowder worth eating. I have erotic dreams about real chowder which we don’t have in the UK The rest is,as **tdn** so rightly says, is a product of Old Nicks arse ---
**Author:** ![PaulParkhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PaulParkhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulParkhead)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-in-usa/432889/52 "2008-01-10T18:57:40Z")
[QUOTE=Ro Carter] I always was a little sorry for people from England and other smallish island nations, where you can’t go on road trips where it takes a good three days solid of driving just to get from point A to point B. [/QUOTE] You can, assuming you’re prepared to cross international borders. Scotland to Gibraltar would be around 3 days drive. Friends of my Dad’s motorcycled to Israel - I’m guessing 4 days, maybe 5 from Glasgow. Oh, you have to stick your car on a train or a boat for an hour or so, but it’s no big deal. Back on topic, my only advice to the OP is not to bother with West Virginia. Oh, and personally I love Philadelphia. Not too bad for New England either, especially if one has four weeks. I’ve driven from Harrisburg to Boston in about 8 hours. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-in-usa/432889/53 "2008-01-10T19:33:57Z")
About 10 years ago I motored around mainland Europe for 3 weeks and managed to cross over umpteen borders. In 3 weeks I wouldn’t see a fraction of the USA ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-in-usa/432889/54 "2008-01-10T20:10:40Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] …an almost impossible task in the states unless I want to spend all day driving, which I don’t. [/QUOTE] To my mind, spending all day driving (in a huge, comfortable, climate-controlled car) is part of the whole experience. I drove from San Francisco to Vegas via Yosemite in two days, and it was a right laugh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-in-usa/432889.md?page=2)