Originally Posted By nbodyhome >> I'd leave off San Diego, Chicago and Boston. << My sister lived in La Jolla for a number of years, it was really beautiful. I liked the Wild Animal Park also. So if visiting Disneyland, I think both SD and Las Vegas are good trips from there.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo SD is actually very unique to Europeans. Weather, old SD, the Mission, Sea World - they are totally different to anything we have in Europe.
Originally Posted By barboy "We do not get easily offended by the use of cartoon characters." ---maybe, but, a vocal percentage did have some petty issue with Taco Bell for using a chiuaua in its ad campaigns who barked "Yo qiero Taco Bell".
Originally Posted By barboy "The pavilion is MEXICO. And what you put in it was an AMERICAN and a BRAZILIAN" Yes, and that mkes it clumsy and incongruent. Heck even Brazil, for the most part, has nothing to do with the Spanish language found in Mexico--they readily speak Portuguese! And to belabor the point further Brazil is on another CONTINENT from Mexico! One is in South America and the other is in North America.
Originally Posted By barboy "Mexico is not Latin America" But it is apart of Latin America(isn't it?) (Sorry I missed your Portuguese langauge reference)
Originally Posted By barboy "You go tell someone from Guatemala that they are the same as a Mexican, and you'll get an earful. They don't like it." You bet! I had a friend from Guatemala I used to work with years back at Domino's Pizza and I ignorantly called him "Mexican" (before we were friends) and he made it quite clear that he was no Mexican. He was proud of his Guatemalan heritage.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle X, we were planning to go to Boston on our last trip, but it ended up being too expensive to get to / from there and too much travelling time. We ended up changing it to Miami because we were trying to save a bit of money, but I was sorry to miss it! >>But I believe Catfish has been to many of these places already.<< Yep I've been to LA and Anaheim, San Francisco, San Diego, New York, Niagara Falls, Chicago, Miami, Orlando, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, New Orleans ... I think that's all ... Anyway, they were my main 'to dos' and on my next trip I'd love to see Death Valley. I do definitely agree I'd have seen more of the US as a whole if not for the Disney parks! But for me it's a worthwhile exchange ...
Originally Posted By Bob Paris "I'm not sure I could even say where someone "should" go in the US." Thank you, Denise. I will not even bother addressing the orignal poster who has now taken it upon himself to tell foreign visitors where they can and cannot travel in the US(perhaps he is eyeing up a job in Bush's Ministry of Thought Police?). Attempting to communicate with him leaves him hopping and sqawking like Donald Duck in one of those old cartoons. As for me, besides extended time at both DL and WDW, I have been to Las Vegas, travelled through Marin County and Northern California, seen the Grand Canyon, been through Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas and been to Ohio twice to see friends, during which time we went to Cedar Point. At last count it was eleven states. NYC and DC will be saved for a later trip. I also really want to see Connecticut in the winter. It just looks so beautiful.
Originally Posted By jonvn "But it is apart of Latin America(isn't it?)" Even if it were, it's not the Latin America Pavilion. It's the Mexico pavilion. Brazil could have a wonderful pavilion of its own. Think of the possibilities of the rain forest alone...
Originally Posted By nbodyhome >> I also really want to see Connecticut in the winter. It just looks so beautiful. << I've been to CT in the fall (when going to the Berkshires) and it was lovely. I'm sure it'd be very nice in winter as well. I've not been to many of the states you've mentioned. After so many trips to see family in San Jose, I finally made it to SF last year. It wasn't someplace I'd ever wanted to visit, but I loved the city very much. I do get the same questions on my travel, moreso about the Europe part. "Paris again"? "Why don't you go to Hawaii/other vacation spot"? I am very drawn to Paris, and if I go to Paris - well, I need to go to London as well. I visit different places when I do go, but it's still an enjoyable rut. And I do see other places.
Originally Posted By nbodyhome Oh - Bob Paris - never worry about what others think. Even if I question something (out of curiousity), it isn't anyones business where you spend your vacation.
Originally Posted By Socrates It's been a while since I've seen it, but wasn't the basic idea of "The Three Caballeros" that Panchito was taking Donald and Jose (his fellow Americans)on a tour of Mexico? Socrates "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
Originally Posted By jonvn No, actually, not at all. The film is about different individual countries in South America.
