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In article <3v2p64$sgf@news.tuwien.ac.at> Manfred Wuits <mwuits@info.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
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>I'm a 21 year old architecture student from Vienna, Austria and want to come to
>USA for two months (Aug.,Sept) to drive around the country (west of USA), meet
>people and to
>have fun.

  Sounds like a fun thing to do, sure wish I could afford to do it.

  That late in the year, make sure you have chains and snow equipment
  if you intend to travel the northern rockies on your trip.  Our
  rockies may be similar to your alps, but they are still worth the
  visit, IMHNO.  



>- have any hints for me about travelling the USA by car.

   Bring lots of strong coffee or no-doz.  You'll need it to keep
   awake whilst being forced to poke along at our current speed limits
   of 55 or 65.  Either that or restrict your wanderings to Montana
   where enforcement of the national limit is extremely lax.

   You'll want to avoid large cities on weekends or at commute times
   from 5-9 am and 3-7 pm unless you like trundling along at 5 mph
   or less next to commuters reading their papers, picking their
   noses, etc.


>- know any place of interest(building, event, lake, mountain, sports,...) i
>MUST see

     The large Utah/Arizona canyons are definitely worth seeing.  I
     personally would recommend Canyonlands and Arches National 
     Monument, both near Moab, Utah.  Also Capitol Reefs in 
     western Utah.  Maybe also riding the Narrow Guage railway in
     western Colorado.  

     The Grand Canyon if you insist, but on the way there, why not
     see the big Meteor crater that was featured in Starman?  

     A cruise up the redwoods of the west coast, particularly near
     Santa Barbara, Monterey, and north of Santa Cruz  (or even better
     in northern California) is worth the detour.  If you bring a nice
     touring car, Highway 1 is fantastic--but don't tell anyone, it
     gets crowded enough already.

     Mount St. Helens may still be steaming away in western Oregon,
     right along the georgeous Columbia river that you won't want to
     miss.  

>- know a interesting architecture (and/or) computer-related institute,company
>or organization

   Hmmm, wonder if Industrial Light and Magic offers tours?  

   You probably want to hit the Berkeley and Stanford campusi as well
   as the local coffee shops near them--particularly Berkeley and
   University of Santa Cruz.