Articles tagged with "United States"
Weather in the United States is not a national subject. It is a set of regional climates with their own seasons and their own hazards, and the useful preparation is knowing which ones apply to the places on your route.
For a trip within the United States the paperwork question is not a visa. It is identification that will get you through a security checkpoint, and the small set of reservations and permits that some destinations now require before you arrive.
The United States is large enough that no single season is the right one. What makes a trip work is matching the month to the region you have chosen, and knowing which weeks the whole country travels at the same time.
The churches, bridges, schools and streets where the civil rights movement happened are spread across the South and the border states. Their status is worth stating precisely, because they are frequently described as something they are not.
The San Antonio Missions are a chain of eighteenth century Spanish colonial complexes along the river, inscribed together in 2015. They are living parishes as well as a heritage site, and the walk or ride between them is much of the point.
Cahokia was a city of thousands across the river from what is now St. Louis, built and abandoned centuries before Europeans arrived. It is one of the most important archaeological sites in North America and one of the least visited things on the World Heritage List.
Yellowstone was the first national park anywhere and is on the World Heritage List for a geothermal system with no equal and the wildlife that lives on top of it. The two rules that matter most are about where you put your feet and how far away you stay.
The Grand Canyon is on the World Heritage List for the record its rock layers hold and for a landscape at a scale photographs do not carry. Almost everything that goes wrong for visitors comes from underestimating the heat, or the difference between walking down and walking back up.