Budget Car Rental : Destinations

For many years visitors have brought their hopes and dreams to the USA. For the earliest pioneers, it was an un-touched wilderness ready to be shaped into a "New World," a possible heaven wasted on its native people. Millions of settlers followed, to share in the developing of the new nation and to better their lives, far from the narrow-minded civilizations of Europe and Asia. Slaves who had been shipped over from Africa and the Caribbean joined them as free citizens. As the United States expanded to fill the continent, something authentically new was created: a vast country that took pride in defining itself in the eyes of the world.

Every visitor in America, whether they are foreigners on a coast-to-coast road trip or residents exploring their extremely varied land has some idea of what to expect. American culture has become so methodically shared throughout the globe that one of the main joys of getting to know the country is the repeated, the fantastic surprise of the recognizable. Yellow taxis on bustling city streets, roadside mailboxes straight out of Peanuts cartoons, wooden porches overlooking the cotton fields, tumbleweed shooting around the desert, never ending highways dotted with pick-up trucks and chrome-plated diners, the first glimpse of the Grand Canyon, or the Manhattan skyline, now more than ever a permanently iconic image.

America is a big place with lots on offer. In comparison America is about half the size of Russia, about three-tenths the size of Africa, about half the size of South America (or slightly larger than Brazil), slightly larger than China, about two and a half times the size of Western Europe. So whether you wan to meet Mickey Mouse, Trek around national parks, go Skiing, lie on a beach or indulge in some serious Shopping, America has it all!