Highlightstour details Camping & lodging ? Whitewater rafting ? Sunset sailboat cruise ? Puget Sound scenic ferry crossing ? Walk the Golden Gate Bridge ? Grand Canyon sunrise or sunset ? Wildlife viewing ? Scenic walks and hikes ? City tours of Las Vegas & Hollywood ? Sightseeing in Seattle ? National parks and monuments - Yosemite, Redwood, Mt St Helens, Mt Rainier, Olympic, Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Arches, Monument Valley, Grand Canyon and Zion ? Professional tour leader, camping fees/ equipment & transportation Sand dune buggies. Limos in Las Vegas Las Vegas clubs & casinos . Navajo guided Jeep tour. Jetboat ride. Grand Canyon helicopter flight. Horseback riding Optional activities For further tour information go to: www. trekamerica. com/ pdl Duration: 28 days When to go: April - September Accommodation: 23 nights camping & 4 hotel nights En- route Hotels: Approx $ 45 x 3 nights ? Seattle or LA hotel included in price ( HP) Camping Food Kitty: Budget $ 10 x 28 days Start/ Finish: Tour starts 07.30 and finishes approx 17.00 in the hotel lobby of our Los Angeles/ Seattlearea hotel This tour operates in either direction Departs Los Angeles Trek Code: PDL Departs Seattle Trek Code: PDS STARTFINISHSTARTFINISH 20102010 CALIFORNIA UTAH MONTANA ARIZONA WYOMING OREGON BRITISH COLUMBIA NEVADA WA COLORADO NEW MEXICO IDAHO ALBERTA TEXAS OKLAHOMA San Francisco Big Sur Yosemite NP Los Angeles Mt. Rainier NP Seattle Redwood NP Mt. St. Helens NM Oregon Coast Olympic NP Grand Canyon NP Paci  c Ocean Las Vegas Zion NP Arches NP Monument Valley Flaming Gorge Montana Yellowstone NP Jackson Hole GrandTeton NP included HigHligHts Tour from£ 1599 F li g hts from£ 404* 28 17 Flexible Itinerary Day 1 Los Angeles >> Santa Barbara- Tour Hollywood Boulevard and make your way up to Santa Barbara on the ' American Riviera'. Day 2 Big Sur- Pitch tents by crashing surf then cosy up round the campfire under California stars. Day 3/ 4 Yosemite National Park- Our tip for a great photo op? That giant ' walk- through' sequoia. Day 5/ 6 San Francisco ( H) - Tour America's favourite city and walk the Golden Gate Bridge before an amazing sunset sailboat cruise. Day 7/ 8 Redwood National Park- From here on the forest floor, those trees sure go up a long way. Day 9 Oregon Coast- By boot or by dune buggy the Oregon Dunes have something for everybody. Day 10/ 11 Mt St Helens/ Mt Rainier NP- Get trek- happy on Washington's scenic trails. Day 12/ 13 Olympic National Park- If sore feet deserve a little TLC, let Sol Duc Hot Springs do the honours. Soak it up! This is the life. Day 14 Seattle ( HP?)- Blare out guitar- loaded classics in the city that gave the world Hendrix and Nirvana. Day 15 Montana - Crossing Washington and through Idaho's Bitterroot Range, Montana welcomes us with rugged mountain peaks and natural hot springs. Day 16/ 17 Yellowstone NP- The Old Faithful geyser goes off like clockwork. Bison or bears anyone? Day 18/ 19 Jackson/ Grand Teton NP- Mirrored lakes, grizzly peaks and a sea of pine - you'll be itching to explore. While rodeos and horse riding are both great, the included rafting is the best! Day 20 Flaming Gorge- Clamber across red- tinted landscapes and camp under the stars. Day 21/ 22 Arches NP/ Moab- Swirling sandstone formations are the front- page news here. The hike to Delicate Arch is great, but so is a Hummer tour! Day 23/ 24/ 25 Monument Valley/ Grand Canyon NP - Stunning campsites plus one humongous canyon and the Navajo equal two days you won't forget in a hurry. Day 26/ 27 Zion NP/ Las Vegas ( H) - From gob-smacking Zion scenery to sizzling Vegas neon, expect extreme visual overload. Day 28 Los Angeles- Hooray for Hollywood. one final tour of " La- la land" and one blockbuster of a trip! B uckle up for a no- holds- barred epic. One giant circuit crosses each of the nine states closest to the Pacific and makes for one hell of a lot of postcards home. Big forests, mighty canyons, sprawling cities and desert as far as the eye can see. There's nothing small about this tour. Pacific dreamPacific dream For full list of dates and prices please see pages 86- 88 * Flight prices subject to availability 08 May04 Jun 15 May11 Jun 12 Jun09 Jul 19 Jun16 Jul 26 Jun23 Jul 03 Jul30 Jul 17 Jul13 Aug 31 Jul27 Aug 07 Aug03 Sep 14 Aug10 Sep 28 Aug24 Sep 04 Sep01 Oct 29 May25 Jun 12 Jun09 Jul 03 Jul30 Jul 17 Jul13 Aug 24 Jul20 Aug 31 Jul27 Aug 14 Aug10 Sep 21 Aug17 Sep dates & Prices ? Tours departing from Los Angeles include 1 hotel night ( HP) in Seattle. Tours departing from Seattle include 1 hotel night in Los Angeles.

For further tour information go to: www. trekamerica. com Departs AAAAAA Trek Code: XXX Departs AAAAAA Trek Code: XXX STARTFINISHSTARTFINISH 20102010 18 Let's start off where it all began in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where the founding fathers first set foot in 1620. From there you've got the historical cities of Boston, New York City and Philadelphia. Then there's Chicago and Washington DC, also among some of the oldest cities in The States. but if you want the oldest continually inhabited city in North America you have to go south all the way to St Augustine, Florida, settled by the Spanish in 1565. But old is relative when you're talking history, because a lot has happened in The States during the last few hundred years. Slavery has come and gone; there's been a Civil War, a few Olympic Games and World's Fairs and a whole lot of monuments and memorials have been built in honour of all the good ( and sometimes bad) things that Yanks have done over the years. So even if you're not a history buff, or all that bothered about the past, there's still a lot to sink your teeth into. Who says America is lacking ' culture'? Tell that to the New York cabbie or the Cherokee Indian, the Appalachian hillbilly or the 6th generation Cajun working the bayous of the Mississippi Delta. There may not be culture as in royal families and ' lost tribes', but they don't call America ' the melting pot' for nothing. There are world class universities ( and the party cultures that follow!), museums, art galleries, theatre, music, restaurants and shopping. You want it, it's there. Then there's pop- culture; which The States can claim to own for the last 100 years or so. We're talking Time Square, professional sports teams like the Yankees and the Chicago Bulls, Coca Cola, McDonalds, Disneyworld, MTV and music like jazz, country, honky- tonk and the Blues. America's Eastern states are an eclectic mix of old and new, all coming together to create a great big melting pot of just about anything and everything you can imagine. In The States, ' the East' is everything to the right of the Mississippi River, so we're talking BIG! Over 2,000 km from New York to New Orleans, then from the Great Lakes south to the tropical Florida Keys; the East means something different to everyone, both old and new. To some it's Boston, Broadway, basketball and the blues, to others its history, hillbillies, Harlem and hot Georgia nights. What's the East mean to you? We call it history... and culture! Contents Atlantic Dream19 Freedom Trail20 Best of the East21 Canadian Pioneer22 Northeastern Adventure42 Northeastern BLT48 eastern usaeastern usa