Last update:
14-Dec-99

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Mike Todd

Visiting the USA
The practicalities

This section is still not fully written. Only the linked pages are currently available. It is highly likely that I will eventually scrap this section.

Getting there
There are lots of things you need to think about before you go. Here are a few pages of information that might help.

• Visa requirements for UK visitors
• Travelling to the US
• Jet lag - how to cope

Driving in America
If you want to drive in the US, you'll probably have to rent a car and learn the US rules of the road. There are various pages:

• The hidden costs of rental unravelling CDW, LDW, PAI etc.
• Driving the rental car - what all the controls do, and some basic advice
• On the road - the rules of the road, and a few pointers

Finances
American money does take a little getting used to, and there are a few pages intended to help you get money and spend it!

• Getting your dollars - the best way to do it, and what you might expect
• Spending money in the US

Health and welfare in the US
There's nothing worse than getting sick when you're on holiday - but the US isn't too bad a place to be ill, although without holiday insurance it will be a nightmare!

• Medical insurance for the US
• What to do if you take ill
• Health hazards - water and mosquitoes, to name but two

Keeping in touch
Whether you want to phone home, phone for a take-away pizza, or send a postcard, you need to know a few things about how the Americans do it.

• Making phone calls
• The postal service