Calling all Americans!!

I recommend if you wanna see beauty only rivaled by the alps, go to The Grand Teton National Park. The near by town of Jackson has absolutely amazing, healthy lean foods. All beef, elk, and buffalo in town are grass-fed, hormone free and tasty! Most places serve organic foods and everyone is very environmentally friendly (but not all up in your face about it) there's hiking, fishing, rafting (summer, fall and spring) and world class skiing, and beautiful sleigh rides in the winter. It's #1 on my top ten favorite places here in the states. Truely the all-American experience

Places I recommend for reasonably priced amazing eats while you're there. The Bunnery, JH Organics, The Virginian, The Gunnery, and Jackson Hole's Steakhouse (you can order Buffalo and Elk at the last two) and if you want a sweet indulgence Moo's Ice Cream and smoothies, all handmade organic ice cream TO DIE FOR! I've never had better. Alright, well that's my suggestion. Enjoy

oops, double post, my bad. It's early here.

Like everyone else said, it depends on what you're looking for. I have some ideas for a more subdued visits. Charleston SC and Savannah GA are really nice southern historical towns. They both have lots of local restaurants, shops, and antiques as well as art museums, tour groups and boat trips. I'm really partial to Boone and Ashville NC as well. They are both really nice mountain towns and the Biltomore estate is a must see.

I saw this post early this morning and have been thinking about it.

I am an east coast girl, and have not been to much in the middle of the country (it's so big!), so besides Seattle Washington, my experiences are limited to the eastern coast.

It's been written already, but my number one recommendation is our nation's capital, Washington DC. I took a bus tour last spring -- I think we were dropped off at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and from that area you can walk to a ton of great museums. I recently went to the Holocaust Museum -- it's somber, yes, but very worthwhile -- you could spend the whole day there and not run out of things to see (a lot of reading though). There are also multiple Smithsonian museums located within walking distance of each other -- you could literally spend a week there and not run out of things to do! I also visited the Capitol Building on another recent trip to DC; the free tour features a short video outlining America's beginnings... I recommend the capitol building tour if you're interested in learning about early American History.

Regardless, DC is most definately a place to visit. I don't know what your budget is, but you had to pick one area, I would choose a week in Washington DC.

I also swam with manatee off the cost of Tampa Florida last year, which was an experience I won't forget anytime soon.. Boston is nice... I've been there a few times and always enjoy it. The Baltimore Inner Harbor is pretty and they have a gorgeous Aquarium there. I think people would recommend the Grand Canyon (although I've never been there). In that same area is Mount Rushmore, and the overall scenery in the mid-western US seems really beautiful (from what I've seen of other people's vacation pictures!) The Sequoia Forests are apparently pretty cool in California... these are just a few ideas to look into. I'm from Pennsylvania and people tend to like to visit Amish country when they visit our state. The Amish are a conservative folk who live without modern conveniences .. they use horse and buggy and quilt... stuff like that. So if you're doing an east coast tour, you could consider that. It really depends on your interests.

Also, my mom just did a trip from the east coast to the west coast last summer, so if you would like more details about where they went and costs, etc. send me a message, and I'll get the info for you.

I think that trip mentioned from DC down to Florida was an excellent idea. Also Colorado - they are real fitness buffs into rock climbing, mountain biking, horseback riding , and of course in winder skiing - there's the Colorado river to go down by multiple means, camping in Colorado would be dreamy, altougth perhaps not on a vacation from England unless you really know what you're doing, it's just a real good place to get alot of physical actitivty in one of the most beautiful places in the world and the quisene there reflects the good health attitude held by Coloradians.

I live in CA and went on a road trip from LA to San Fransisco on my honeymoon - this is unbelievable if you like the beach, wine country, farm country, bed and breakfasts, quiant towns where you feel like you must have one of every colllectable, there's an aquarium in Monterey that's very nice and in San Fransisco you have to be in the most romantic of places, Ghiridelli chocolate and wine, clam chowder and sourdough bread made in huge pots right there on the pier that you can eat while checking out all the stands of fresh fish and crustaceans, wonderful place for raw oysters. And of course there's china town - don't know if there's something like that in England but if there's not it you must visit one - you must absolutely see a chinatown which is just as good in NY as in CA - however although the CA coast is beautiful and sunny and warm San Fansisco can be cool and cloudy and you may not appreciate that given what you already live with unfortunately while all the coast is sunny and warm the best city (in my opinion) is not.

NY is only sunny and warm in the summer which starts in late june and ends in early sept.
Actually if you want to visit a town from every country in the world food wise NY is your best bet. It is the definition of melting pot. And of course although i've never been there NY has got a bit of everything within a small area (not the beach so much - gotta go to CA for that) and NY is also very romantic and i don't know if you're into thiis but everything there is OPEN ALL HOURS. In CA we close at 2am generally., And of course in NY you get Broadway.

so that's my two cents - Even if you end up in rural Oklahoma i assure you a wonderful trip - so ENJOY

I agree with the posters who recommended Washington DC. If you're not going to be in the US long, or don't know if you'll ever be back, it'd be nice to visit the Nation's Capital. There are LOTS of site seeing things to do in DC.

New York is nice too. Do you have time for both?