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On how to go to the United States, without intermediaries and travel agencies, how to organize an independent trip to the United States, useful tips on organizing a trip to the United States. Rent a car, booking a hotel in the USA, useful sites.

First you need to understand that for a trip to the United States, except for the desire, two things are needed - a visa to the United States and money, no matter how trite it sounds.

Maybe it's easier to buy a batch tour? No is not easier. First of all, this is at least twice as expensive from what you spend you yourself. Secondly, America will not see the bus window in the company of unfamiliar people, only by himself and only by car. All other formats - the money thrown into the wind.

No organizational problems in traveling in the USA There will be no excellent tourist infrastructure, responsive people, including police and low cost of fuel in the States. There is a good network of roadside relatively inexpensive motels and simply scolding attractions, including beautiful cities, entertainment parks, luxurious ocean beaches and national natural parks.

Get a US visa

This is the first to start preparing for traveling to the States. First we get a visa, then book hotels, rent cars and so on. A traveler will always give a visa, refuse to those who pretending to the traveler wants to immigrate. For them, I have -.

What time is it better to travel to the US

Weather and climate - an important moment for the US traveler, not only your plans will depend on this, but also expenses. In the peak of the season is always hotter and more expensive, respectively. More about the weather and california climate can be read in the article .

How to buy a cheap ticket to the USA

The rule is one thing - buy in advance, it is not necessary to break in a high season, for example May-September without any extra need. Now a ticket to the United States - in New York or Los Angeles can be bought for $ 600-700, with a good coherence, perseverance and luck even cheaper. You can book an airline on the website of the airlines, but I recommend using the Aviasales as an aggregator site and there buy tickets, such as Kiev-Los Angeles, Moscow-Los Angeles, Kiev-New York, Moscow-New York

How to book cheap accommodation in United States

Options can be two. First, book all accommodation in advance along the route or at least book accommodation for the main items of the route. Second - book housing along the travel. In the second case, it will give some sensation of freedom, but will take longer. In addition, it will not always be acceptable options for the price, especially this applies to national parks in a high season. For example, in June-September.

For budget travel in the USA The network is well developed inexpensive, up to $ 100, roadside motels, but you need to be prepared that some of them will not fit your ideas about comfort. It may be noisy and not always sterile.

Cheap accommodation or hotels in the USA can be found through the booking system Hotels Combined Room Guru)- This is a hotel reservation service that compares the prices of dozens of basic booking systems, we can only choose the best offer.

There are also a couple of interesting sites for booking hotels "Vepovy":

www.priceline.com. - Compare offers from different companies and allows you to call its price, which offers airlines, hotels and car rental offices. A kind of trade, often companies agree and you get a good price. True, until the date of payment, the name of the hotel or rental company is not known. Only the hotel level and approximate location, as well as the type of car are known.

www.hotline.com. - On this site you can find good discounts, but before receiving money you again see only the hotel level and its approximate location, as well as the type of car.

In addition to hotels, you can stay in private apartments or an apartment, for this there is a service AirBNB or popular in the States. The apartments are home conditions, including a kitchen, a couple of bedrooms, a veranda or terrace and other accommodation in a house or apartment.

How to find cheap housing in journey?

We book on HotelsCombined.com. Why? Because this search engine allows you to find the best options and not pay extra. The search passes through several popular booking systems, we have to choose the optimal option.

Booking sites for apartments or houses:

• www.vrbo.com.
• www.flipkey.com.

Hotels can also book directly on their own sites. It takes several times more time. Often on hotels sites you can find online couponswhich are valid only when booking through their own sites. Although in my practice it is rarity and we prefer to book through hotel booking sites.

How to Book a Travel Car for US

Without car in the USA Nowhere and if there is no right, then urgently look for a friend or girlfriend with the rights and driving skills. You will get much more from travel than dull trips on trains or buses. In the same, the bus is a vehicle that transports homeless or batch tourists.

Sites of nationwide car rental companies whose offices are practically everywhere:

• www.hertz.com.
• www.dollar.com.
• www.enterprise.com.
• www.nationalcar.com
• www.avis.com.
• www.budget.com.
• www.alamo.com.
• www.thrifty.com.

If you book directly in these companies, you can also use all-in-date coupons, which, with a certain knowledge of English, find quite easily on different forums.

In addition to major international companies, there are still many regional offices that can be more interesting.

If you have just like I have no desire to overpay, but I want to get everything at once and at a good price, it is worth using international Car rental sites. I use Rentalcars.com - because a simple and understandable interface, good price. Yes, there are no discounts and no trading, but I buy what I see at a fair price and not spending a lot of time.

Behind 5 months Our travel is USA by car We drove 27,000 kilometers, crossed 33 states and visited 29 In this article we share useful informationassociated with the journey America on the car.

Our traveled route by car for the USA ( GoogleMaps.)

Let's start with the fact that USA by car - it's really great idea And if you have the opportunity - not even think - you will like it!

In America, just a huge number of a wide variety of attractions - famous cities (NY, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, Miami, Denver, Boston...) and national parks (,, Yellowstone...). And ride by car beautiful roads The United States is great pleasure. Developed road infrastructure Country countries allows you to safely overcome any distances.

So, you decided that we would like to ride the United States by car. Where to begin? Correctly - S. shopping a car! (well, either rent - This is a simple thing, just stagnate the offices of the office and find the conditions better).

Purchase / sale of a car in the USA

We bought Toyota Solara 2006.at Los Angeles behind 3735$, and in 5 months sold in San Jose behind 3750$ . Yes, on $ 15 more expensive :)

Alien can no problem buy a car in the usa! And buy and sell cars in large cities of the United States - the case of the 1st day. The most popular site for buying / selling cars in the USA - craigslist.org..

In Los Angeles we bought Machine on S. walking day After arrival on the first announcement. In San Jose sell The day after placing an ad on the cragist.

Purchase / sale procedure Used car in the USA easy Before the disgrace, the minimum of bureaucracy and paper work. There is a document - Title(Taitle) - certificate of ownership. While selling the car owner signs It transmits you in exchange for money. Also, it will be good to get from the owner of the paper Smog Check. - Something like those. Inspection aimed mainly to control the level of pollution of the medium. In general, in the US There are no those. inspection as such here responsibility for the state of the car completely lies on ownerBut the contamination of your air car worries everyone. If SECTOR not passed And there is no paper, then make it - this is a question 10 minutes and ~ 35$ .

Everything, sale committed. Now it remains to remake Title(Make Transfer.) in your name - for this it is necessary to come to the nearest branch DMV. (Traffic police), give them Title(Smog Check, as well as information about taxed to the database, have paper optional) and pay tax to buy a car (size depends on the state, in California it 10% )

Tax amount to buy a car is calculated from costwhich you specify in Title. Filling this figure completely on your conscience, no one in DMV. will not checkhow much you really paid. Well, except if you enter at all unrealistic little Cost. We indicated 1000$ and without any questions saved 270$ on taxes.

For transfer Taitla You must point address in the USA For which you will send a new paper in your name. Take care of the presence of such an address in advance, find a person who will not mind if your title comes to him. We got acquainted with a guy in Los Angeles by Airbnb.and used his address. Renewal occupies up to 2 weeks.

All, the main part of the car purchase completed. Now it remains to make sure that you are not overdue sticker paying tax (Color sticker on the room of the car with month and year of end). You can pay for the tax online, the new sticker will be sent to the address you specified in DMV. For our car it was worth ~ 100$ .

And the last thing you should do is proceed insurance. The procedure is not complicated and is done online or a visit to the nearest insurance office. Our insurance type Osago Stoila ~80$ per month.

As you can see, often to buy a car more profitablethan rent his. Will wisely think about purchaseIf you are planning a trip for a period More than 1 month.

All, you can go! Well, except for some more information about driver's license.

What driving licensions are needed to control the car in the US

If a at the time of buying car nobody your rights does not ask, when driving, such cases may arise (we did not arise - never stopped). Also, the rights are asked when renting a car. So, what rights are needed and will Russian rights New sample in the USA?

OfficiallyAccording to Geneva conventions (Vienna USA did not sign), the driver must have national Plus driver's license international Book. Most likely, no one will never stop you, but if he stops, then the Russian rights of the new sample will be enough. But here already decide for yourself.

AT rolled offices quite ordinary Russian rights, book No one asks.

Travel by car by USA

So, all bureaucratic procedures are passedand you can go directly to the most pleasant one - start traveling In America by car! Let's go through the main aspects of such a journey, let's start with gasoline And everything that is connected with it.

Gasoline in the USA

Average cost gasoline at US is the same, As in Russia, on the february 2019. of the year - 39 rubles per liter(2.62 $ per gallon) . Cost gasoline at America depends on fuel taxes state. Most cheap Gasoline in Texas - 34 rubles per liter, most expensive - at California - before 49 rubles. Gasoline in the USA more qualitativethan in Russia. Also in States Due to a slightly different methodology for calculating the octane number an analogue of Russian AI-92. will be 87-O.. Do not be surprised and do not be afraid of this.

Our Toyota has average consumption - 7 liters per 100 km,or 35 miles on a gallon (MPG).Total for gasoline for all the journey we spent 1180$

There is no shortage of refueling, the maximum distance that can be found without refueling - 200km.

If you plan a fairly long journey in USA - Get loyalty cards fuel. Discounts on such cards can reach 10% . Or just download the mobile app and register using Mobile Number

Road Roads in the USA

Though PDD USA do not have cardinal differences With Russian, there are still some differences. Of the features of American traffic rules, you can allocate the following

• On the adjustable Crossroads (with traffic lights) right to red light of extreme right strip. Before that, it is necessary to fully stop and give way to another transport. The rule is valid throughout the United States, except the city New York and islands Montreal. This the rule is canceled signs prohibition Turn right to red.

• Sign Stop. - prescribes exactly stay Before the crossroads, and not slow down (even if you see the absence of approaching TC). This is a serious requirement and for it often punishable. The passage of such intersections occurs in a queue (such as machines drive up to the intersection).
• Speed \u200b\u200blimit signs in school zone - The rule is stiguously monitored, the punishment is severe.
• Sign CARPOOL (HOV 2+) - Stripes for the movement of the car with two and more passengers. Something like highlighted polls for public transport. In many states made an exception for hybrids and electric vehicles And they are allowed to use the carpool.
• Parking signs - There may be several of them - in this case, the parking rules are folded. Also, it is impossible to park near red Bordeur.
• Marking lines, sharing oncoming flows is always yellow colors. The same color is marked and the edge of the carriageway.
• In many states, when driving at the extreme right lane, the drivers must restruse at least one lane to the left, if the roads are worth the vehicle.
• Two double solid Equalized by reinforced concrete bumps
• For parking not Ivnalid on places for disabled - fine from $ 250.
• It is necessary to stop before school bus With the included specialign. All vehicles are required, including moving in the counter direction, if the road is single-band.

For navigation for the United States are well suited google maps. Also, these services are popular as Waze. (Maps in which all information about traffic, overlapping, coppers and other events add users).

Where to spend the night on a trip to the USA by car?

Want to save on the overnights? We will tell where you can budget (or is free) and safely spend the night in the car in USA.

Recreation Areas (REST Area)

Excellent phenomenon in the USA is the presence of more 2000 (two thousand) rest areas Along all the country's highway.

Rest zone - This is a congress with highway with equipped with automotive parking (from 30 to 200 places), with free toilets, drinking water and various vending machines.

On remaries can be sleep in the car. True, some states set the maximum stay in the parking lot (4 or 6 hours). But we never interfered with us all night on recreation areas, but we did it around 40 times.Plus, about the same night we spent on parking lots of stores Walmart.

Parking Walmart.

Network Walmart. It takes great popularity among travelers because of its loyal policy towards the autocomping in the parking lots of their stores. Roughly speaking, you can stay on the parking lot of any Walmart Supercenter store (there are still small Walmart supermarkets, here we are talking about network hypermarkets - Supercenter), choose a cozy place and spend all night in the car on guarded parking. And if the store will be around the clock, then you will have access to water and toilets all night with a bonus.

The only one, sometimes local urban legislation Prohibits Overnight Camping (Overnight) in parking shops. There are already the Volgartes are powerless and they have to obey. In such cases, you will see the appropriate prohibitive signs in the parking lot. By the way, there is a mobile application Walmart Locatorwhere all stores of the network with a rating and attitude towards night parking are displayed on their territory.

In the parking lots we spent the night too 30 times.

Campgrounds, Public Lands

In the USA exist thousands of campgrounds - Paid and free. Most of the equipped, of course, paid. But there are pleasant exceptions.

Almost in all campsites you can plant fires And cook food. As a rule, there is toiletsdrinking water, Point of sale wood, tables For a picnic. Sometimes there is a shower, laundry (Landry), shops.

We can recommend useful site for search campgrounds in USA - campendium.com.There you can install the filter at the price (including you choose free) and amenities. Also, you can view all available campgrounds on the map. We used them to search for almost all seats overnight stays. In the basis of the site, there are both official campsites and just places where you can safely stay and spend the night, for example, parking Walmart., quiet streetsZones recreation, Public Lands. And other places suitable for carkembing

One more free Alternative to campsites are so-called. Public Lands. - common areas in the US, which can officially be used for camping. Some examples of such places:

• National Forest - Territory national forests. Here allowed break camping in 100 meters From the nearest road. Should not be confused with national parkswhere free camping forbidden.

• BLM - (Bureau of Land Management) - in fact, the same thing as forests, only, as a rule, BLM is pretty pusty territory.

Airbnb, Couchsurfing

In addition to such places overnight, like recreation areas, parking, campings and hotels there is such a great phenomenon as Couchsurfing. (Kauratsurfing) - World Site hospitalitywhich works especially well in the United States. The essence is extremely simple - Host (The owner, the host) lay out on the caratsurfing website announcement that he is ready take guests At home, you, in turn, give him an application and if the owner approves it, then welcome to visit him.

We actively used kauratsurfing During our journey in the US and held a total of about 40 nights on this system. It is extremely interesting.

If you wanted more comfort and independence, but the desire to save is still present, then perhaps you will suit the option with Airbnb. — kauratsurfing for money. The essence of the same as with Kauseerfing, only you will feel yourself more free. By Airbnb. People pass their housing or part of him. For example, you can find room, sofa, a place under the tent in the backyard, etc.

Hotels in USA

Well, and the last thing you can mention - hotels. There is everything extremely simple - you pay money and get accommodation. Most cheap room At the US hotel will cost you in 60$ . To search the hotel in America it is most convenient to use type aggregators Agoda., Expedia, Booking.who will show you all hotels nearby, as well as allow you to find a room for minimal Price.

Food in the USA

Let's tell a little O. budget diet at USA. There are several ways known to us. save on food in America:

• Shares B. mobile applications, such as McDonalds., Burger King., Starbucks.. Sometimes it turns out absolutely is free Get a meal or drink. For example, we visited almost every day Starbax and got 2 drinks for free, just registering new Accounts in their application. So we saved about $ 600.
• Sale Finished food in supermarkets. In type hypermarkets Walmart., Target. etc., most often since morning, Begin to glue discounts on food, which suits the shelf life. Discounts achieve 80% , You can buy chickens, salads, sandwiches.
• The shops- discounters. The presence of such shops depends on the state, the most common networks - Aldi., WinCo., Spruts, Grocery Outlet.
• Wine in the shops GROCERY OUTLET. — 3-4$ for a bottle of excellent wine
• Welcome gas burner. If you plan to visit Campgrounds. It is possible to pretrately cook noodles, soups and a lot more.

Where to take a shower in the USA?

With housing, we figured out, with meals, too, everything seems to be clear. For a comfortable existence, it remains only to find places where it would be periodically take a shower. There are such places and there are many of them, as paid, so I. free. Here are the main places where you can take a shower in America:

• Foot truck (Truck Stop) - Places of Recreation / Overnight trucks. On most tractors have soul, often, paid (5-10$ per person). You can agree to go together 1 shower. Also, often on the trays there are refueling and there is a rule - if refue They have free shower. Most often indicated the number of gallons required (huge, for truck), but sometimes it is enough just to show a check with any amount.

You can just say that you are not a truck driver, but just travelingMaybe you will go to the meeting and will give the key to the shower.

There is a wonderful mobile application. Trucker,in which all the country's tractists are noted, indicating the presence of the soul, comments and ratings of stops.

• Campgrounds / RV Parks. In some campsites, most often, in paid there is soul. You can simply call For the floor of the watch in such a camping and take is free shower. No one watches for this, because Americans, for the most part, are not so engaged. In general, in the United States in such things there is a minimum of control and everything is designed for the conscience of people.

There are many campgrounds with shower for coins (Coin SHOWER), where you need to throw a few fourth, after which the water turns on. As a rule, this is something like $ 2 for 8 minuteshot water.

• Fitness clubs. In the US, the network of various fitness clubs is widely developed. Almost in all, as you have already guessed, there are souls. Prices begin from $ 1 per day. Also, it is possible to ask for free Trial period. We walked 10 days in Anytime Fitness in San Jose, California for 12$ per person. Such a price we found on the group.

Look for the best price on sites with coupons- This is a great way save On various products and services. We used the coupons on such things like a car wash, oil change, fitness club, cafes. Most Popular coupons sites USA - Groupon. and RetailMenot.. Download their mobile applications and save!

Annual subscription to US National Parks - Annual Pass

If you are planning to visit for the year more than one America will reasonably be acquired annual subscription To visit all National Parks (and not only) Countries - Annual Pass, worth $ 80 (2019). Subscription is valid on 1 car

Behind 5 months we visited our journey 29 parks and thanks to this subscription saved about 800$ .

SIM card with internet in the USA

Very important during the trip by the USA by car always be in touch and have access to the Internet, so consider the issue of purchase sIM cards in the USA. We studied the tariffs of various mobile operators and chose the SIM card company H2O Wireless.

Behind 30$ You get fully unlimited Internet throughout USA — 4GB. traffic without speed limit and Internet on 2G. speed after. Also, the bonus goes unlimited call /SMS within the country I. 10$ for international calls is hour and a half calls to Russia.

Travel budget for the USA by car

It remains only to mention how much can cost Such pleasure as a trip to the states by car. For almost 5 months (from May 23 to October 16, 2019) of our journey USA we spent $ 5900. Here is the breakdown by the main costs of expenses:

• $1187 — petrol(see graphics below)
• $1040 — flights for Two(Moscow - Los Angeles, San Francisco - Phuket)
• $1320 — food(~ $ 9 per day)
• $416 — accommodation(see graphics below)
• $390 - Insurance for cars (~ $ 80 per month)
• $368 — alcohol 🤗
• $305 — pile of Shupok. from TJMAXX dyskounters
• $222 — rent a Car (in LA and in SF)
• $160 — Parking fines
• $100 — car purchase tax
• $98 — registration on the car for year (because expired)
• rest - all sorts of little things

Well, and a little infographic for housing and gasoline😋

Good trip on America!

But such a video turned out of our journey in the USA by car:

America. It is worth going to go here at least once behind the spirit of freedom, urban atpiquity and of course the greatness of unique nature!

My journey through the states lasted 6 months, I just brought my body to this continent and decided to see what it would come out of it. There was a great desire to visit a lot of national parks, but the slightest idea how to do it with my funny budget, I did not have. In the head there was only porridge about the prohibitions, rules, someone else's freedom and far-cutting just around.

I still come across people who carefully keep the belief that airplanes are a super-wide luxury, and the flight to the USA is worth a thousand bucks. Guys are you serious?! Yes, in Russia, I increasingly see tickets for trains, which are more expensive than aircraft. The development of technologies and airlines competition you are ready to give tickets almost for sale, take at least the growing number of loupe airlines.

Cheapest flights to America from all beloved Europe. The average price is $ 130 (there are offers from $ 50) to find these tickets need, firstly, plan a trip in advance to buy tickets in advance, secondly, scan sites for tickets for tickets for some time Interesting options will appear (Vandrouki site note, there are many delivel offers and check options).

* Sometimes from Moscow there are tickets for 15,000 rubles there / back, incl. Aeroflot (Added from comments). Check the availability of tickets too).

Sometimes there are pleasant prices and from Moscow, but most often still with a change in Europe, and so that there are no different misunderstandings with the transit zone (and I hear such stories more and more often), it's better to make a Schengen visa. This process is elementary.

How to get a visa to Europe with ordinary, mortal, not working, I described autotops:

• (Finnish, expense on Schengen $ 65 plus from 30 rubles per day)
• and (Spanish, simple receipt, but need a certificate from the bank about the availability of funds).

Flight to the USA from Europe there - back in the range of $ 400. We flew out of Madrid in Las Vegasza $ 180 with a transfer in Oslo.

Housing. Where to spend the night in the US is cheap

Very and very logical that there will be no prices for hotels and hostels, we exclude it. Although I will say, just in case, I somehow removed the number in La for a hundred bucks and cockroaches ran through our toast! So on the normal numbers you just break.

Take a tent And remember about your profile on the hospitality site. For the period of stay in the city we find someone to stop, in national parks we sleep in a tent.

It is possible to buy a subscription to fitness (a large network that is in many cities) and walk there in the shower, I think it is convenient. Sometimes it is not located (there are no people who are ready to accept us on Kauratsurfing, or they have sudden things), we sleep in a tent in the city.

In the US, a lot of homeless people live on the streets, and not all of them are addicts, alcoholics or psychos, many are quite adequate and look very good, but sleeping on the street in a tent. Yes, a backpack with foam and a tent is a set of a typical American homeless. In Las Vegas, we felt very well all the salt of their life, and in Los Angeles, we even workers of social support for homeless gave cards for food and on the passage, discovering us in the morning in the tent.

Free shower can be found at gas stations for trucks, truckers give free coupons to the shower with a bonus for fueling the truck, you just need to tell them about your travel and ask.

Movement by states

Bicycles!

The first brilliant idea that came to our bright heads - buy bikes and slowly, with the breeze and the spirit of freedom trying to understand that in this country at all occurs.

To our services - the store Walmart, bicycles and everything you need for their fixing, we bought here. For three months, the store is ready to return money for the goods without the need of an explanation of the reasons for the return. Very comfortable free rent, I recommend.

Prices for leaks 70-200 dollars. As soon as one of the goods stopped us, we calmly passed it and bought another, better.

Minus This venture in the soaring the sun of the desert. If your trip from March to September, and you plan to cross the western part of America, do not forget to see the weather. When I overheated in the sun, I could only lie under the bush, publish the sounds and sleep, and this slightly slows down the journey.

Plus This venture is a lot. The main, of course, mobility, independence and secrecy. It is very easy to bypass the points of payment at the entrances to national parks, you can also easily swell anywhere, hiding behind a bush, or a stone, without paying for camping.

Another plus is an indisputable image of travelers, here and the attitude towards you is different, many ask about the need for help, give food, water, but it is only when we leave the city. In the city, we are not different from homeless, at least in Las Vegas, in which we based first time, stray tramps often look better than us, and backpacks with bicycles they have expensive brands ..

In cities, as a rule, there are special tracks for cyclists, if there is no, then you still feel confidently, the drivers are quite adequate (the complete opposite of Vietnam, for example). Outside the city moved on autobars, I don't know if it was legitimate, but the police did not stop us.

When we are in complete darkness, in the American wilderness, they jumped their trunk, we were approached and wondered if helping needed. When we exploded the camera, we always found someone who would give our spare, well, that is, they found us. Once the students did not have a spare chamber and they took us to the shop of the nearest city on their pickup.

At night we put a tent in the highway at the track, or in a secluded place in the park. If you are traveling in the summer season - you need to be attentive for the presence of snakes, scorpions and tarantulas, to go only with a stick in the grass and better. We personally met with a rattle snake, on which it almost came, she thundered a ringing, my pofigism about livelihood scattered in a moment, be careful in general. Tarantulas in a natural habitat we also saw once.

2 national parks were visited on the bicycles (Lake Mide with the Damb of Hoover and Fire Valley) and 1 State Park (Red Rock), in time - 30 days, in distance - about 700 kilometers (we got used to the heat for a very long time, they were lying around , waited when sunburns will be held, the temperature kept stably for 40 on the Celsius scale, at night often did not fall below 25.

Our cycle bike ended as spontaneously, as it started, I came across the Internet for the search for people for a joint travel on the US on a rented car, and thought it was my dream. Calculating the remaining money, I realized that they were enough for this idea, if you eat at all a little bit, in general, in general, but I was no longer stopped. We passed great in the store, and went on the nearest bus from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, where the Russian team arrived in the near future.

Travel on a rented car

For one month, our house became Dodge Caravan, which we rented $ 70 a day, it was unforgettable. We had one child six months, various stories with policemen, a lot of snow and beauty.

If you are planning a way for a month, it will be cheaper to buy a car than to rent. Especially if you are a marker and love to dig in these glands.

Price from 1000 bucks (60 thousand rubles), you can see options for example here: sfbay.craigslist.org

The perfect staff for buying a car - California, here everyone is indifferent to you have the right and citizenship.

Rentally better through different aggregators like Kayak.ru. All the salt rental car in its insurance, since you are a foreigner, she will cost you the whole condition. Perfect option -
Take the car on a big company as we.

There is an option for another adventure: on the site Autodriveaway.com - the owner of the car you need to overtake the car from one city to another, sometimes through the whole country, and it is looking for a way to save on the services of distiller. This is the perfect way to see the country of cheap and tasteful! The number of days is certainly limited, and you will not deviate from the route, but you can always visit any interesting on the way. With you money only on gasoline, but very often it pays off in generous tea upon arrival at the destination.

Gasoline is not quite expensive, sometimes very cheap ($ 2-4 per gallon (3.78 liters), it's kind of from 32 rubles per liter. Pay for gasoline is better than cash, for the map always take the commission and the price is different from the board indicated on the scoreboard.

30 days were held on the way.

Passed distance: 7250 miles (11920 kilometers, further than from Moscow to Vladivostok). 9 northwestern states covered.

Spent money:

$ 983 on gasoline
$ 246 for food, Ie for 100 rubles per person day!
$ 150 to visit parks (price per pass and entrances to state parks)

27 nights Holded in a tent, 3 nights in friends apartments.
Of all the nights spent in the tent - four did not reread the law and rules.

4 times dealt with police officers.

1 time drove into the car in the parking lot.

I visited 9 national parks:

Joshua Three National Park
Yosemite
Rashmmore Nats. monument
Devils Tower
Yellowstone
Mount Rainier
North Cascades.
Olympic.
CRATER LAKE.

6 parks staff:

Calaveras.
Custer.
Palouse Falls.
Cape Perpetua.
Oregon Dunes.
Silver Folls.

4 cities:

San Francisco
Salt Lake City
Seattle
Portland

And we drove most of the east of the coast of America on the first track along the Pacific Ocean!

As for the police and rights, the states are a bit different control system, here you will never meet the semblance of DPSnikov, no one will wait for you for the bushes to check for the availability of rights, drunk you or something.

If you do not violate - you are not stopped, and vice versa, if you break, then the highway patrol calculates you, turns on the flashers and is attached to the back, if you see the bright, haunting the lights, it means that you need to cuddle to the sideline and wait in the car, putting Hands on the steering wheel. I know a few people who are essential, without breaking, but without right, and for several years there were no problems with the police.

Partition Travel Feature by car - This is an evening adventure on the search for overnight rooms. If a bike can be collapsed from the road anywhere and break the tent camp in anywhere, feeling there calmly and fine, then on the car you need to find a suitable place for parking, here it is already on the principle "All that is not prohibited - allowed" we scanned parking REST Area for the presence of signs prohibiting night parking. If this is not available, then we stayed, my mother was sleeping with a child in a tent, and the remaining team members went to look for places for two tents. As a rule, there are no secret places on such parking lots, so we just put on the edge, and this is no longer legal, so we woke up with a dawn and did the like that was nothing.

Also on the state map, quite a lot of green zones marked "National Forest", on the territory of these forests it is legally parking the car, break the tent camp and burn fires, the main thing is to do it away from the road.

In the territory of national parks, we found an official camping, Parking there the car, the tent was set after the sunset, when the Rangers were already leaving, and they were collected with dawn, thus saved the whole condition.

Airplanes within USA

In America, one parties fly, the minimum cost of $ 50, although there are some kind of mystical loustines, but not everywhere and not always. And why deprive yourself of pleasure to watch American outback from the window of the bus, or cars. Although when we realized that the hitchhiker did not have time to get to New York, and we were 6 months old on a visa soon end - we took the aircraft from Chicago to New York.

Bus buses

The most budget version of movement in the states, not counting the hitchhiking, these are buses. Two main services Megabus.com and www.greyhound.com arranged an auction of unprecedented generosity and sell tickets from $ 1 if you buy in advance. Routes cover not all of America, but you can leave many anywhere with amenities (free internet, outlet, toilet). So, we traveled from Las Vegas to Los Angeles and from San Francisco to Los Angeles for $ 5. But the most beautiful adventure was a bus from Texas to the city of Chicago, 22 hours drive for $ 15.

The Americans themselves prefer to fly by airplanes, so in our bus from Texas there were some blacks, reading repipe and creative inadequate, but it is fun).

Hitchhiker we drove about 6,000 kilometers on six states. During these 54 days, money was spent:

• on food 270 $ (143 rubles per person per day),
• $ 34 on public transport in cities,
• 10 $ for washing,
• $ 18 on gas cylinders,
• 47 $ on clothes,
• $ 58 permitis in parks (mostly did not pay, but sometimes it came),
• $ 40 for all sorts of little things.

The hitchhiker is generally lealed, but some states still lick it in illegal, although the police themselves do not know about it. But in order to feel confident, you can find information about the legality and complexity of the hitchhiking in a particular state here: hitchwiki.org/en/united_states_of_america.

In order to flash the first car, we got out on the outskirts of the city, went to Check in Freeway and Mahali hand, giving to understand what we need to pass.

They stayed more willingly than no, they were lucky, fed, worried about us, told about the beauty of nearby.

I really like the American hitchhiker with my diversity of cultures, because here everything, from Africans to Columbian, consider themselves local, amazing mix of nationalities that have grown in American culture. The wagons were rarely stopped, mostly mainly wide cars with huge wheels, here very much like a space in everything.

Police On our soul came only once, when we did not leave the clutch, and were dark silhouettes in the dark of the night, and this is already suspicious. We were explained that it was not safe to stand on arrivals to the highway, even if it was the best place for our business. We were sent to a deserted refueling and wished good luck.

As of the day, under the same circumstances, police cars simply pass by, because they see that we kind of adequate.

Appearance. In America it is very important to look neat, your appearance is 90% success. Probably, therefore, the lonely guys of the hip-type with a large beard is not very lucky here. But put a girl next to the girl - already confidence more.

Sometimes the most closest policemen can express you about the impossibility and illegality of the hitchhip, I would like the bus to another departure from the city and I would have stuffed there.

The most unfavorable places For the highway - near large cities, or, even worse, in the territory of the cities. On the deserted spaces of "Vnigd" the most favorable places for the highway, there you look quite unequivocally, as people who want to leave somewhere. Although once we are not bad stuck in the north of Utah, where cars are not so much, but on our arrival at all for one to fifteen minutes. Stresting two hours - it's rarity.

On the travelers we drove 6 states, looping between national parks. In those parks, where there were no free buses, we also moved the hitchhiker, found out that there were their laws about this in every park on this matter, and even if the highway is legal, it may be forbidden on the territory of the park. So, in the park Karlsbad caves, we stopped a few Rangers and said that we were doing something illegal, we ordered to walk and no longer try to stop the car, but by passing kilometers on foot, we caught the car before leaving.

Parking hypermarkets. If you are stuck in the city, and from arriving at the highway you are ruthlessly driven by the police, or it is very far away, then the logical thing is to find a big hypermarket, such as the volgart, and slow down the car on the road from the parking lot, with a request to arrive to the hint of the highway, they atheck , relaxed and not difficult for them.

Refueling. As for the refueling stations within the city, it seemed to me this is not the best undertaking. Truckers are not clear where they are going, and if they are going to the north - with fear in the eyes, they automatically call the opposite side of the world.

But with this view of the travel, I can not guarantee you that you will have the same experience, just know that the hitchhiker exists, and personally I received incredible impressions of two months of such an adventure!

Food

We left for me no more than $ 5 for two per day (150 rubles), with different types of movement, this figure varied slightly. On a large company with a rented car, where you can store huge packaging rice, pasta, beans - we spent 100 rubles a day per person, although they spoiled from the soul!

The secret of saving and diversity is a gas balloon, burner and large packaging. When traveling by car for breakfast has always been bunting with bananas, for lunch - salad and pasta, for dinner diversity and sweets. Of course, we looked slightly strange, decomposed on the sidewalk, or parking with all your plates. After seeing us with all the staf in the parking lot library, the librarian called the sheriff, saying that we were here Amphetamine Cook in the morning early! And in general, not counting the awareness of their absurdity, there were no problems.

Fast food. In general, America is the country of Fastfud, on any parking lot and McDonalds and Fatburger, and Kingburger, this is enough. Yes, there really can be found burghers on the dollar and free unlimited gas production (just to find a glass in the area and purged to infinity). Be sure to install the McDonald's application for the United States, thanks to him, every day I had free ice cream and food, without need to buy something, Americans love coupons.

The shops. Well save with shops, where all products on the dollar "99 Cents Only", "Dollar Tree", there is absolutely everything we fed every day. The Walmart or Safeway network always has a rack with sweets, and the prices in them in general are pleasant.

The longer you are in America, the lather it is starting to live. This country is beautiful with its price contrasts. You can buy two kilos bananas for $ 1, and in the store in contrast for $ 7 and so everywhere. To buy products to the house you need to get around at least 4 stores and then will be the most fiscal. But it is only if you delay somewhere for a long time.

If you just need to be purchased and not to steam, then let it be Walmart.. More prices are shown without dachshund, that is, you will come to the cashier and see other prices from those on the price tags, it is always a surprise. Is that on the products of the first use (bread, milk, eggs ..) tax is not assigned, and in each state the amount of the taxes are different.

The key to your savings is a burner and a bowlerYou still "love" this romance of cooking pasta for dinner ... Gas cylinders are sold in the same volgart for $ 8 large, 4 $ small and 2 $ Dichlofos. If you have a multitox, then this is the cheapest option, but clogs often even with a high brand gasoline.

Free food. In big cities, they often distribute the food homeless and needy, you can ask local vagrants where these places. In the city of Fresno, we somehow came across the park, where all the vagrants were on the bar and the pie, moving towards the concentration of people, we went to the car, scored by cupcakes, cheese baguettes, cakes and batches. Not overdocated, just give everyone who wants.

It's no secret that in the modern world, where the offer exceeds the demand, every day is thrown into the trash of a lot of good products. Well, for example, a certain amount of baking in this store in this store is baked, and everything that did not work, the clock to nine in the evening goes to the trash, in a beautiful packed form, because in the morning there will be fresh buns. Well, you understand what I am ....

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Login, Annual Pass. If you are planning to travel through the National Park, then at the entrance to the first one will definitely buy Annual Pass to all parks. The cost of its $ 80 is valid during the year and pays off very quickly. One car needs one car if you suddenly come to the park without a car - you still need only one pass. At the entrance you need to show a passport, they check your photo with you and signatures. If your journey is over before December, the pass can be sold, the signatures are easily erased. You can also buy someone's pass through the Amazon site, or from the hands.

Overnight. In national parks spent the night in specially designated paid camprand. This is a place with cleared ground under the tent, a metal beam, a clean toilet and, possibly, shower.

Lifehak. As a rule, the box is attached to the stand with information, inside of which envelopes. You must take one, fill in the information, put in it the specified amount and omit to another box, having touched the closer, with the number on the envelope to which you can check. We came for hours to eight in the evening, when the Rangers were already leaving, took this envelope, they collected the specified amount into it, but never lowered to another box. If the checks did not come, but it did not come, we disassembled money back and missed the envelope on the road. And if it came, we would explain on the Koryatu English that we are stupid tourists.

My most beloved staff is Utah, he is amazing red-yellow, it is cut by canyons and is rich in beautiful natural arches, in this state, nature moves along with the wind, it is weathered, crept on, transformed ..

In the US, I learned and felt all kinds of deserts, and barbed, and rocky, and with snakes, and with dunes, and with white lizards, and with gigantic cacti and without, and even the one where the sky merges with the horizon and all sorts Presentation of reality.

In the US, I saw as closely from each other there are volcanoes, crater, lakes, the same deserts, dense forests, ocean shores, wildlife mountains, highly developed civilization, geysers, wild deer, distinguished from each other culture, snowy drifts and hot springs. .

Form 73 certificate is valid for 6 months. Therefore, when visiting the gym, even healthy people should undergo inspection of doctors every six months. It also needs to be done before every fees and competitions. How to get a certificate forms at first glance, problems with obtaining a certificate about the absence of contraindications for sports should not be.

It can be obtained in the nearest polyclinic or private medical center. From such a document, as a certificate of form 73, you can learn about the state of human health and reveal, he is suitable for sports and can take part in sports contests. This document has the necessary confirmation that the body corresponds to such norms that allow you to withstand the physical exertion proposed at competitions.

Help 73 for sports is a medical certificate, which is designed to not allow a person to harm its body through exercise practices. This is a forced measure of security, but sometimes it is just a formality.

The form is required for a person who wants to play sports as an amateur. It may not have any deviations in terms of health. Then it is better to think about buying a certificate of 73 in Moscow. Main/VIDA Sports/Provoka (form No. 73 of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation №). Help (form No. 73 of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation No.).

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Uploaded: / aschivans: useful. In the certificate, university you can buy a medical certificate for sports fast and inexpensive. Delivery on the day of order. The corresponding form is issued in the medical-physical dispensary. It is the most relevant for athletes-professionals and those engaged in sports sections for the sake of maintaining a good physical form and adheres to a healthy and mobile lifestyle. Help for sports - a document confirming the lack of restrictions in a person for physical exertion and a fixing permission to visit classes.

It is necessary for fitness and visiting. Medical reference / y - the official document necessary to visit sports sections and gym, participation in competitions. He confirms that a person has no contraindications to physical exertion and he can do tennis, athletics, rhythmic gymnastics, boxing or any other sport.

A certificate for sports is issued to both children and adults. Why do I need a medical certificate?. Help for form 73 in Moscow with operational design and delivery.

Any certificate for sports, issues on the day of handling. Help 73 reflects the overall health condition in terms of the ability of a particular person to engage in one or another sport (for athletes - willingness to participate in sports competitions).

Form 73 for sports must necessarily contain the name of the type of sports activities.

Step-by-step instructions of an independent organization of a trip to the United States, to pay attention, accommodation, car rental, how to choose a route and travel direction. What can save and what time of year is better to go. Useful sites that will help in organizing a trip to the United States. Only my personal experience. I will answer questions about the organization of a trip, ladies tips on the route.

Travel to USA - The pleasure is not from cheap, standard package tours in which you will never feel real America worth two times more expensive than in the case of an independent organization of the trip.

A trip to the USA It is also easy to organize any European country, an excellent tourist infrastructure, the cost of gasoline and rent a car, an extensive network of roadside motels and hotels in more expensive, there are many other accommodation options.

We get a visa of the USA

Unlike other countries, the same Schengen Agreement, such as preparation trips to America It is necessary to start not from the route or booking hotels and with the preparation of the US visa. Now it is issued for 10 years, which is much more convenient than each year to humiliate in European embassies. Step 1 - We get a visa of the USA, how to do this in the article Get a US visa in Ukraine: step-by-step instructions and procedure .

We are planning a route for the USA

The United States is a large enough country and look there much more than you think. Even if you do not miss a single release of Travel Channel or Discovery, you only recognize the small share of all the beauties of the American continent. Perhaps therefore Americans will not have so often meet in Europe or Asia. They and home have something to look at.

I have a lot in my blog routes, reports and Notes on Traveling in America , keep for updates.

Choose travel time in the USA

Many misses this important point, and it depends on this, whether you will half the holiday hide from the rain and wind in the hotel or spend the whole day among the wonderful nature of the Wild West.

The states of the country with many climatic zones and when snow in New York is snowing, Christmas in Miami meets under palm trees, taking sunbathing. Even in California, the weather within one state can be very different, in October stable + 20-23, and in the Wine Valley Napa Valley, the temperature may well be over +30 and the pomegranates will spit, at the same time in the San Francisco wind and the rain will be Drive you to some warm place. And this is all the same staff.

We buy a cheap air ticket to the USA

In the States from our latitude can be reached by plane, if you do not plan a transatlantic cruise.

Flight options hundreds, I prefer Turkish Airlines. With transplant B. Istanbulor KLM. Landing B. Amsterdamif I fly in Los Angeles on the west coast. On the Eastern Coast, the Ukrainian Mau or with a transfer through Vienna or Frankfurt - without transplanting - Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa, United Airlines.

Book now on the airline ticket, but it is better to use the aggregator. aviasales.and buy a low cost flight TO iev-los angeles , Moscow-Los Angeles , Kiev-New York, Moscow-New York

Details about buying tickets: 9 Rules for buying cheap flights

Book a private journey to the USA

For me personally, the easiest and most pleasant moment in preparing the trip, if the route is one city, it is better to book in advance. When we had a rather long route along the coast, the mountains and the National Park, I was looking for and booking hotels or motels along the movement. In the US, a network is quite developed by a network of inexpensive motels worth 50-70 dollars for two, there are cheaper options, but I do not advise.

Cheap accommodation or hotels in the USA can be found through the booking system Hotels Combined (Room Guru), SERVICE I use myself. The advantages of the service is that it compares the prices of dozens of booking systems - you can choose the best offer. In every article or report, I give links to hotels in which I stayed and I liked.

In addition, there are a couple of sites that are a mansion:

www.priceline.com. - In addition, which compares offers from different companies, like previous sites, also allows you to call your price and offers its airlines, hotels and rental companies. They often agree to it. Before payment, the name of the hotel or rental company is not known. The hotel level and its approximate location or type of machine are known.

www.hotline.com. - It offers significant discounts, but at the same time before payment they show only the level of the hotel and its approximate location or type of machine, but not exact name of the hotel or rental company.

In addition to hotels, you can rent a house, part of the house, apartment or apartments through. Usually there is a kitchen and a few bedrooms, which is convenient for families with children and large companies traveling together.

A few more housing booking sites:

• www.vrbo.com.
• www.homeaway.com.
• www.flipkey.com.

Hotels can also book directly on their own sites. They often assume online coupons that are valid only when booking through their own sites.

Book a travel car in the USA

America is a car country and if there is a problem with this, then the planned pleasure of traveling to decrease several times. In the same Los Angeles, either homeless or batch tourists use buses. I would have chosen a car for travel, after all America is not a bus country.

Car rental You can, together with the hotel, using popular sites that compare offers from different companies.

Sites of nationwide car rental companies whose offices are practically everywhere:

• www.hertz.com.
• www.dollar.com.
• www.enterprise.com.
• www.nationalcar.com
• www.avis.com.
• www.budget.com.
• www.alamo.com.
• www.thrifty.com.

If you book directly in these companies, you can use all-in-date coupons that, with a certain knowledge of English, find quite easily on different forums. Google Here is the first assistant - search by "Car Rental Coupons" or "Car Rental Discount Codes" will give enough results for reflection.

In addition to them there are still many regional minor companies that can have the most favorable prices in a particular place.

If there is no desire to overpay and want to receive rental suggestions including local companies, then it is better to use specialized car rental sites that compare offers from different companies. I use - a simple and understandable interface and always the best price.

Emotionally prepare for traveling for the USA

And tune in to get the strongest and pleasant emotions in your life. Prepare a camera, a few memory cards so that the arrival can boast to friends of Selfie from or against the background of New York skyscrapers, and maybe you will be lucky Las Vegas And you will become one of those whose American dream came true.

Internet sites that help save with independent travel planning

Aviasales.- Budget flights worldwide

RoomGuru. - budgetary accommodation, hotels and apartments worldwide and all popular booking sites, including Agoda, Booking.com and other popular booking systems

Booking.com. - The usual and convenient search and booking of housing worldwide

- rental cars in the world with the possibility of free cancellation

For bus tickets for bus tickets on Europe and CIS

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