Best state to drive through: Idaho. Beautiful mountains and canyons; tons of snow (but cleared highways); huge, beautiful cabins sprinkled along the highway; people fly-fishing in the rivers
Worst state to drive though: Nevada. Not for a lack of scenery, but because the interstate started to get insane-busy and it was HOT outside!
Best hotel: Hampton Inn in Thankgiving Point, Utah. Wonderful service; beautifully decorated rooms (vases of flowers in the rooms, tile and granite bathrooms, dark wood furniture and white fluffy down duvets); wonderful continental breakfast (which I like to refer to as incontinent breakfasts) and beautifully landscaped grounds.
Worst hotel: Super 8 in Medicine Hat (on our way home). Sunflower seeds on the floor from previous occupants, no ground level rooms so having to lug Joel down a flight of stairs; small, cramped, stinky, cold room where the fridge didn't work so all our food spoiled.
Best meal: Planet Hollywood, Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas. Good food, huge portions, reasonably priced, terrific service and amazing atmosphere!
Worst meal: Any McDonald's. They have no idea how to make a proper McChicken sandwich. The bread had a funky taste that reminded me of the time I accidently ate a bun that was moldy on the bottom and the sauce was nasty and spiced up. And I made the mistake of ordering a McChicken twice...blech!
Best roadside bathroom: the tiny little border crossing in southern SK. It was sparkling clean and they provided paper toilet seat covers!
Worst roadside bathroom: any of the rest area bathrooms along the interstate
Best attraction: Terminator 3-D at Universal. Although the show was a touch too loud, it is an amazing blend of live actors, 3-D effects, a miniature movie (the actors would walk into the screen and then appear in the movie) and sensory stimulation (when the final liquid-magma robot was blown up, the crowd was sprayed with blobs of water).
Worst attraction: Hollywood Wax Museum. You know it's a bad replica when they've got name cards next to the figure and you still can't see the resemblance! Gwyneth Paltrow looked like Nick Nolte in drag.
Worst state to drive though: Nevada. Not for a lack of scenery, but because the interstate started to get insane-busy and it was HOT outside!
Best hotel: Hampton Inn in Thankgiving Point, Utah. Wonderful service; beautifully decorated rooms (vases of flowers in the rooms, tile and granite bathrooms, dark wood furniture and white fluffy down duvets); wonderful continental breakfast (which I like to refer to as incontinent breakfasts) and beautifully landscaped grounds.
Worst hotel: Super 8 in Medicine Hat (on our way home). Sunflower seeds on the floor from previous occupants, no ground level rooms so having to lug Joel down a flight of stairs; small, cramped, stinky, cold room where the fridge didn't work so all our food spoiled.
Best meal: Planet Hollywood, Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas. Good food, huge portions, reasonably priced, terrific service and amazing atmosphere!
Worst meal: Any McDonald's. They have no idea how to make a proper McChicken sandwich. The bread had a funky taste that reminded me of the time I accidently ate a bun that was moldy on the bottom and the sauce was nasty and spiced up. And I made the mistake of ordering a McChicken twice...blech!
Best roadside bathroom: the tiny little border crossing in southern SK. It was sparkling clean and they provided paper toilet seat covers!
Worst roadside bathroom: any of the rest area bathrooms along the interstate
Best attraction: Terminator 3-D at Universal. Although the show was a touch too loud, it is an amazing blend of live actors, 3-D effects, a miniature movie (the actors would walk into the screen and then appear in the movie) and sensory stimulation (when the final liquid-magma robot was blown up, the crowd was sprayed with blobs of water).
Worst attraction: Hollywood Wax Museum. You know it's a bad replica when they've got name cards next to the figure and you still can't see the resemblance! Gwyneth Paltrow looked like Nick Nolte in drag.
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