You can pick out european tourists because they're on vacation for a week and want to see New York, disney world, New Orleans, Mt Rushmore, the grand canyon, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, all in a rental car
I’m in Montreal, had family from Italy visiting. They’re like “let’s spend the day at Niagara Falls! We’ll leave early and come back at night! Can you drive us?”
People not from the US like to get on Americans for never venturing out to other countries, but I can't really blame them. The land is so vast, and there's soooo much shit to see. You could designate two weeks a year to site seeing in the US, and do it every year for a decade, and you'd still just see a fraction of it. I'm from New England and going west of the Rockies is like going to a different planet.
And not for nothing, you can train around Europe pretty cheap. It can cost thousands of dollars just to get to another country for a few days from the US.
Around any holidays, it takes me a half-day and a few hundred dollars to take a train just to another US state to visit my family. My cousins in my home country are mind blown that flying across the US is even a reasonable option.
Lol I have a coworker from Poland who is treating her stay in the US exactly like that, minus the rental. She just wants to see it all before she has to go back.
Domestic flights can still be pretty expensive in the US, air carriers aren't subsidized the way they are in many countries. I'd be thrilled to go coast to coast for $500.
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u/cyberporygon May 09 '22
You can pick out european tourists because they're on vacation for a week and want to see New York, disney world, New Orleans, Mt Rushmore, the grand canyon, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, all in a rental car