Sounds like a great idea, Dreadbelly, but much as I'd really like to, I wouldn't be able to join you; firstly my wife is disabled and wouldn't be able to travel the distance and secondly when I previously tried to visit the USA twenty years ago I found I was banned because I had travelled to East Berlin as a student in 1972 and the student organisation which arranged the trip was affiliated to the communist party. I know the cold war's ended since the past twenty years but I don't think American transport & security has got any easier to obtain a visitor visa.