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negative creep:
So here is the thing: Two friends of mine are about to travel to the USA and I foolishly (and drunkenly) told them I could ask you guys for advice and such.

They will be landing in New York on May 12 and take the plane back from San Francisco on July 7. Apart from those two dates they don't yet know much what they are going to do, except that they want to visit the following cities on their way: Washington DC, Birmingham (Alabama), New Orleans and Flagstaff (Arizona).

What they need now is basically anything they can get. Do's and don't's for travelling the US, things to do in aforementioned cities, cheap places to sleep/eat. If you live there and have time on your hands and want to show them around the city, that would be awesome, too. (did I mention they are pretty girls?)

As for activities, keep in mind they are not above the drinking age, so 21+ bars are out.

I will be gone for a week, starting tomorrow. When I come back, I'll be expecting replies. I'm couinting on you there

Liz:
Everyone hates the North. I can be of no help to you.

Lines:
Since they are going the southern route, Austin is a good inbetween of New Orleans and Flagstaff. Also they had better check out the Cali coast as they are driving up to San Fransisco. As for where to stay, they should look up hotels on sites like Expedia, Travelocity, and Hotwire, unless they want hostels, then they should look those up elsewhere. They should bring lots of things to entertain themselves in the car with, because it will be a long and mostly boring drive.

Ozymandias:
Austin's actually a bit of a detour between Flagstaff and NO. Major cities along the way are Dallas (sucks) and Albuquerque (the best). Depending on how hard they want to push through the southwest, they'll probably want to stop in both. The between ABQ and DFW is boring as hell and there's pretty much Amarillo along the way which is the most worst place. There is literally no scenery until you hit mid-New Mexico and the gorgeous Sandias. So yeah, that'll be boring as crap.

I-10 and Austin is an option, though, but it'll involve a longer-ass boring drive through West Texas and at some point a major turn northward either in Arizona or NM. Neither of those are really exciting.

(Austin is a rad as fuck town, though, so I can see how that would be mad tempting too.)

calenlass:
Are they driving? If so, standard rules still apply (pass on the left, etc), but expect a loooootttt of people to ignore them, especially in places where the freeway is more than 3 lanes. Also, some states (at least on the east coast, I dunno about anywhere else) like Maryland and Kentucky have been known to use small unmarked airplanes to monitor speeding drivers, so beware of that.

West Virginia is very pretty to drive through, not very much of a detour from I-81 S, and if you stop anywhere it's like going back in time to the 1960s. Just don't stay there very long.

If driving, the I-81 ends somewhere around Knoxville, Tennessee and to keep on to Birmingham you have to get onto I-75, which takes you through Chattanooga, which means you should really just come to Atlanta at that point because it is only an hour away and we have a better aquarium now and stuff.

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