USA Road Trip Plan

With just over 4 months togo until we depart to Canada, we’ve got most things sorted for the first part of our adventure. Our jobs are pretty much sorted now, as we’ve decided to go through The Working Holiday Club. Accommodation in Whistler is included with this, so we just need to book flights once we get our start dates. Then just travel insurance and we’re good to go (I think…). With that all almost sorted, we can now start to plan our USA road trip (woohoo!)

The rough plan so far is:

1 – San Francisco – LA & California – Spend a few days there to chill out a little after a working ski season in Whistler

2 – Grand Canyon – Couldn’t go all this way and not see it

3 – Vegas Baby – A week or so to drink, gamble, relax and generally enjoy Vegas related things!

4 – Mount Rushmore – Another site we’ve got to see. Probably will be a brief visit through

5- Chicago – A few days to explore the city

6 – Michigan / Detroit – I have family there so will hopefully spend a week or so there

7 – New York, New York – A few days to enjoy the food, explore the city and hopefully catch a few sport games

8 – Washington DC – A day there before moving on just to enjoy the touristy things

9 – Toronto – I’m aware this isn’t USA, but going to hop back over the border to visit Toronto for a few days

The Planning Starts Now

I’ve been a little distracted from starting to plan our trip recently due to football. I’m a Bradford City fan and have just had the most amazing season which has been a huge distraction to anything else. For anyone interested in reading about this, check out my other blog here

Now the football season has officially finished, we can really start to plan our trip. If you’re new to my blog we’re planning on going to Whistler to do a working season there from November – April ish. Then onto America for 3-4 weeks to do a road trip then we’re planning on popping down to Brazil to the World Cup. It’s a dream trip that I still can’t believe we’re doing, especially since we’ve been talking about going to Canada for years. However…. we still have it pretty much all to plan and we seem to keep adding more and more to our to do list.

So far, we’ve signed up to The Working Holiday Club to get our jobs in Whistler sorted before we go. We know these job programs are a little bit of a con as you’re paying someone to get you an interview for job, however with neither having us worked a season before and are not able to go out until just before the season started, we didn’t want to risk not being able to find a job. We decided we’d rather pay to have the peace of mind, especially with two of us needing to find work. If I was going on my own I don’t think I’d have signed up to a program but at least this way we know we’re both guaranteed a job before we fly out. I’ve got my initial phone interview with a guy at the Working Holiday Club next week, then they arrange an interview with the Whistler mountain team in London in July. So in July we should know what jobs we’ll be doing and when we’ll be starting.

Visa – Check

Job – Check-ish (as long as I don’t attack anyone in my interview, I should be okay…)

Accomodation in Whistler – Check (going to live in the staff housing, but will see how that goes!)

Still to sort:

– Insurance

– Flights to Canada (probably going to go to Vancouver first)

– Accommodation in Vancouver

– Canadian Bank Account

– USA Road Trip Itinerary

– Flights from USA to Brazil

– World Cup Tickets

– Winter Clothes – Not sure whether to buy in Canada or here in the UK before hand