Western USA: Discover Yellowstone and other national parks, the Far West and the Grand Canyon!

By Cristina Rebiere and Olivier Rebiere

Do you want to be amazed?
So... Welcome to Western USA, home of the cow-boys, nature wonders and incredible scenery!

Do you think the Far West, Monument Valley, Grand Canyon and Yellowstone park are not for you? Make no mistake: this is completely possible! Our Travel eGuide will definitely change your mind. Discover at your own pace and browse by photos, places or hobbies :-)

We have been traveling all around the world since our studenthood and have visited more than 45 countries so far. We love to find convenient and affordable travel solutions in order to maximize our touristic budget and discover hidden treasures during the journey, just like you! We are happy to offer you a UDEMY COURSE included with our tips & tricks to travel without ruining yourself.
Prepare and live your holidays... differently!
In this innovative Travel eGuide, a vitaminized additive to other tourist guides, we will share with you our passion for travel and our love for this part of the USA.Discover a route of more than 4.000 kilometers where nature is at the heart of your journey: wonder at all the marvels of the national parks, meet wild animals, enjoy hikes, landscapes and natural curiosities.
So, if you do not know where to spend the next holidays, why not pay a visit for a few days to this amazing country? All its treasures are waiting for you!
With this responsive eGuide, use your smartphone or tablet without internet connection and browse throughout all the data, choosing one of the 3 intuitive methods available:

By location: use a “classical” geographical display with high-resolution maps

By photograph: pick-up one of the hundreds of photos and jump to the corresponding section

By affinity or passion: tap on one of the colored icons illustrating your interests during a trip and get a list of the matching locations!

What are you going to get from this Travel eGuide: Western USA?

- 200+ photos

- 22 touristic sections

- 20+ high-quality pre-downloaded maps

- special for tight budget

- tested and validated trip

- A UDEMY COURSE to learn our proven tips & tricks to Travel freely without ruining yourself

What other people say about this course (2000+ students):

"I felt like the course was a fantastic refresher! Even though I've traveled before, usually within the US, and some of the tips and lectures seemed common sense to me, it has inspired me to begin my research again and reinvigorate me to experience the world. Thank you." - James Stewart "The course is very helpful & beneficial for new travelers who are interested in visiting new places in the world. I've enjoyed the organized sections & the detailed information." - Kamel Halabi "very informative and knowledgeable on travel" - Rudra Toulon "This was an informative course with actionable information." - Sheryl M Malzkuhn

So, are you ready for ALL OF THIS?! Yes?
Buckle up and Bon voyage!
Cristina & Olivier Rebiere

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cristina & Olivier Rebiere
• Release date: Dec 13, 2015

Cristina Rebiere

Courte biographie:Cristina Rebière est auteure de nombreux guides et livres. Elle a dirigé une maison d'édition, un parc d'aventures et mené à bien de nombreuses missions dans la fonction publique européenne. Elle est aussi spécialisée dans la formation continue.Ses origines:Après la Révolution roumaine, Cristina interrompt de brillantes études pour entrer à l'université en France où elle suit tout le cursus en faculté de droit et obtient une Maîtrise en Administration Économique et Sociale. D'abord chargée de communication dans un Institut Français en Allemagne, elle devient statisticienne à Bruxelles pour un bureau d'assistance de la Commission Européenne. De retour à Bucarest elle est successivement contrôleuse de gestion, directrice de maison d'édition, experte européenne puis professeure de français. En Roumanie elle fonde avec son mari une entreprise de team building puis le premier parc d'aventures jamais créé dans ce pays - construit de leurs mains - qui attirera des milliers de personnes, écoles et entreprises dans la pratique du sport et d'activités de cohésion en pleine nature. Avec son équipe, elle conçoit et construit des parcours d'escalade dans les arbres pour d'autres clients.Au rectorat de l'Académie de la Martinique, Cristina prend en charge la coordination de la Cellule Académique des Fonds Européens et de Coopération où elle accompagne les porteurs de projet dans le montage des dossiers, assure la formation en ingénierie de projet, gère un réseau de plus d'une soixantaine d'enseignants référents à l'ouverture internationale. Elle assure la gestion opérationnelle de plusieurs projets de coopération. Elle assure l'actualisation du site internet de la Délégation Académique aux Relations Internationales et à la Coopération.La pédagogie de Cristina Rebière est basée sur le pragmatisme et l'efficacité.Domaines de compétence:management de projet, voyage, marketing social de contenu, team building, formation initiale et continue, expertise en fonds européens, budgétisation, planification, productivité et stratégie, coaching, ingénierie financière, webmestre, statistiques, procédures, web intégration, conception graphique, communication, conception et construction de parcs d'aventure

Book preview

Authors

Welcome!

Hello!

Thank you for purchasing this eBook and welcome to your new " Travel eGuide: Western USA ". We hope it will help you discover this marvelous region, between the Rocky Mountains and Colorado plateau with breathtaking landscapes and gorgeous national parks. The nature is really magnificent and we wish to share with you an unforgettable journey.

You are going to travel a route of more than 4.000 kilometers (2.485 miles) where nature is at the heart of the journey: discover all the marvels of the national parks, meet wild animals, enjoy hikes, landscapes and natural curiosities, this guide will allow you not only to dream, but to make it real by helping you to plan your travel according to your passions and your hobbies!

This eGuide offers a different approach between a travel log and a classic tourist guide. You can imagine that we do not have a team like the Lonely Planet, so you will not find in this e-book full of addresses of accommodation or restaurants. We share with you our travels, our experiences. We hope that this will help you discover new destinations and will make you want to visit them.

If you wish to follow the same route as we did, you will find it on the cover and below. It took us almost 3 weeks of steady journey: busy days and not much rest, then if you are not experienced travelers, I advise you to set at least 25 days to make it.

This eGuide works almost like a website, and does not need to be used along with an Internet connection (unless you want to access the "OpenStreetMap" and other hyperlinks that we provide throughout the book in real time).

Depending on the capabilities of your eBook reader, you can enjoy zoom features on photos. You can also click on the hypertext links (or hyperlinks) underlined throughout the eGuide. We tried our best to make your reading experience as enjoyable as possible, despite the wide technology gaps between various reading systems.

Be sure that we will propose to you more interactive versions, as the formats and eBook readers should be standardized in the future!

Well, enough chatting. Let's go!

Sincerely,

Cristina & Olivier

Practical tips

- Western USA -

Formalities

Atourist visa is not required for French citizens, but you must have a travel authorization called ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization). Here you'll find all the information http://www.americanairlines.fr/intl/fr/informationVoyage/usEntry.jsp?anchorEvent=false&from=Nav#  and here  http://www.cbp.gov/travel/international-visitors/esta . It is necessary to have a biometric passport.

Your ESTA is in fact your payment proof so keep and print it. You should have it with you when traveling. The fee is 14$/person and its validity is two years if you do not change your passport in the mean time.

An international driving licence is strongly recommended if you rent a car and do not want to have any problem.

Budget tips:

Plane tickets

Depending on your country of origin, the tips can be different to have cheaper tickets plane.

Here are some advice which apply, no matter where are you coming from.

Tips:

Buy your tickets in advance (minimum of 3 or even 6 months) to get the best rates so you can choose the dates of your vacation. Look for promotions from different airlines.

Do not buy your tickets at once, but test the market first. Look for the airline companies which offer your envisaged destinations. For the west central region of the United States you have several big cities where you may land: Las Vegas, Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Albuquerque.

Buy your tickets towards one of these cities and then prepare your route or itinerary according to it.

Pay attention because the tickets prices may vary on every hour and without any logic. Consequently, record in a file on your computer the prices you have found for several days before making your decision. You can so compare and know immediately when you will have an opportunity not to be missed.

I tested the market during a week and then I purchased our tickets to Denver. Even if we changed 2-3 times our plane, we were able to save up more than 250 € / ticket. We saved 750€ on our flight costs only with this simple method. To have an idea of what does it mean: this sum allowed us to cover more than half of the accomodation expenses for the period of our stay!

If possible, avoid traveling at holiday times (Christmas, New Year, etc.) to get the cheapest price for your airline tickets.

According to your starting point, try the following airline companies to have more chances to obtain good prices: American Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France or KLM, Air Canada.

To know all the airline companies which arrive in Las Vegas see here ; in Denver here ; in Phoenix here ; in Albuquerque here and in Salt Lake City here.

Better period to travel: if your journey aims at the discovery of Nature, national parks as Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, etc., I recommend you to schedule it in July if you have children (who are thus on holidays) or if you prefer a more quiet month, but with available services and open roads, May or September are the ideal for you!

Traveling in USA

Tips:

Acar rental is the most suitable way of getting around. It also gives you a lot of freedom. It costs about 41 $ per day taxes on the automatic toll of highways InterState (aprox. 30,5€/day) if you book online in advance, insurance included.

Note: You must make your reservation using a credit card. If you did not reserve by Internet with the insurance included, you can have big surprises once there!!!

We did this without proper care by thinking that this kind of thing can happen somewhere else, but not in the United States. Make no mistake, it is the same thing: we had to pay three times the announced price on Internet and this, only after tough negotiations with the renter! Useless to tell you that the final bill was high: instead of $696 planned for 12 days, we paid finally $1824. Thus do not make the same error and reserve with the inclusive insurance. Avoid reserving if you cannot include the insurance, even if the price seems cheaper!

Thrifty Car Rental is the company that I do not recommend you, unless you can buy online the insurance with the car rental. Our only consolation was the fact that the employee of the counter felt sorry for us and gave us a luxury car for the price of a normal car, feeling bad because of the difference between the price of the reservation and the bill that we actually paid.

Be careful if you have to return your car out of the usual working hours. Make sure that somebody signs the resumption of your car because otherwise you can have problems as we had during our first journey in the United States, in New York. We received several phone calls of a robot threatening us with trial if we did not return the car, even if the car had been return in proper time! If you have to return the car at special hours ask from the beginning how to proceed and with whom you can obtain the signature on your papers upon delivery of the vehicle.

Current speed limits:

25–30 mph (40–48 km/h) in the residential zones;

35–45 mph (56–72 km/h) on main roads in urban area ;

50–65 mph (80–105 km/h) on separated roads in urban area ;

45–65 mph (72–105 km/h) on two-lane roads in rural area ;

Arizona and Colorado :

Rural Interstates: 75 miles/h (120 km/h) ;

Urban Interstates and other roads: 65 miles/h (104 km/h) ;

Wyoming:

Rural Interstates - 80 miles/h (129 km/h) on some highways and 75 miles/h on others ;

Other roads: 65 miles/h (104 km/h) ;

Utah:

Rural Interstates - 80 miles/h (129 km/h) son some highways and 75 miles/h on others ;

Urban Interstates: 65 miles/h (104 km/h) ; other roads : 75 miles/h (104 km/h).

A tip: rent your car