US Trip Help- Katsidis v Marquez & Rampage v Machida

Did Green finally pay you? hahahahaha

 

I'm not heading over, but make sure you pay homage to Johnny Toco's gym in Vegas. The Top Rank gym is worth checking out too, if you can get in.

 

Sounds like a great trip. The UFC card with Jackson v Machida looks great. I expect Machida to do a job on Rampage.

 

Will this be your first time to the States?

 

im gonna be over there at the same time and looked at the katsidis fight as an option to go to, would be ****ing awesome. stoked with the dollar at the moment aswell

 

Been there a few times, to various cities. Shame about the order of the fights, since if U R going to LA first Vegas is kinda closer. You probably wont need more than a couple of days in Vegas anyway. Vegas is a desert city so in the deeper winter months it does get quite cold at night. Was there in march this year and was relatively cool at night. Depending on how many days ur in vegas, see if u can arrange a day trip to check out the grand canyon. quite a sight to behold.

San Diego is just 2 hours drive south of LA and is worth checking out. And while you are there u can check out Tujuana, and then u can say that youve been to mexico.

Miami is awesome. Loved it. Just dont bother with downtown Miami, and stick to south beach. If u plan to go to the florida keys (key west), dont underestimate the time it takes to drive there. Around 5 hours each way.

Things about USA:
- The price you see on the shelf is not the actual price, for whatever reason the yanks print the price before tax and you gotta work out in your head what the final price will be.
- Tipping is compulsory, for pretty much everything. Sometimes you will even go to the bathroom where someone is standing at the paper towel dispenser and hands you a paper towel and u gotta tip em. Dont use your shrapnel to tip, it is considered very rude.
- Refilling your soft drinks. Its pretty much standard that you get to refill your soft drinks for free, unless its a classy high-priced restaurant. So dont be afraid to refill your drink.
- If you hire a car and drive somewhere and see a lane that seems to be emptier than the others and has HOV written on it, it stands for "High Occupancy Vehicle" meaning you cannot use the lane if you are alone in the car. Theyve been starting to enforce that quite heavily lately.
- Many americans are very political, so avoid bringing up politics or risk a long conversation about political issues you care nothing about.
- In LA nearly all pubs and clubs shut their doors at 1am (some even at 12am) and dont let new people in after that.
- Dont forget the yanks not only have a different power plug, but also a different voltage. This goes also for temperature and many other things.

If I think of anything else I'll let ya know. Dont forget to get travel insurance, and register yourself online that you are planning to go to the US, otherwise they turn you right back around and send u home lol.

cheers

 

Where do you do that mate? I've never done it before.

 

Which part? the travel insurance or the US entry visa part?

 

Oh ok yeah I've done that visa entry thing, if that's what you meant.

 

US entry:
https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov

 

I saw a tv show about America and apparantly someone got murdered over there one time so be careful.

 

Sounds very scary...