How long can i stay in America without a visa?|144179

Im British and would like o stay n America for 3 months (90 days). Would this be possible without a visa?

See site below to see that 90 days is the time allowed by the visa waiver program.You do need to register for the new ESTA program. See 2nd site.

Yes you can stay in America for 90 days without Visa, and if you would like to stay more days then you can extend the visa.

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Typically it is 90 days without a visa. But you can check your embassy website to confirm it. But really, you can stay as long as you like. But if you do, you may have a problem coming back next time.

Yes 90 days is the maximum under the Visa Waiver programme.

I think that would be stretching it. Check with the nearest US embassy (possibly even on the web here).

gettta outta are country

Is there any good shopping to do in new orleans during the essence festival?|142276

im supposed tobe going for the essence festival, and i was wondering will they have shopping malls there or vendors at the festival?

I_m sure they have vendors at the festival, though I_ve never been. But they do have LOTS of shopping. There_s the french market in the French Quarter, which is just one long open air market. Individuals come to sell there stuff, be ready to haggle. There is the Riverwalk , well, on the river, next to the aquarium. Then all along Decatur St. and N. Peters there are little shops. You can get local items, pralines, Cafe_ DuMonte mixes, Voodoo dolls, anything you can think of that you associate with New Orleans or Louisiana. Canal St is where the higher end stores are, Sacks, Norstrom, etc. Hope this helps, have fun.

Of course there is good shopping in New Orleans! The French Quarter is full of antiques, original artists, New Orleans art, and also tourist stuff. I know this was already mentioned, but Royal St, Decatur St, Jackson Square are good starting places.

Also, look on Magazine Street for loads of shopping. Same stuff as the Quarter but also specialty shops and unique shopping.

Enjoy your trip!

The Riverwalk and Canal Place are the two shopping malls in the city center. There are many shopping malls in the suburbs, but you would need to drive or take a cab to them.

As the other answerers mentioned, the French Quarter and city center are full of places to shop within walking distance of downtown hotels.

What the daily communte like from Decatur to SW Huntsville, Alabama?|160037

We are very possibly moving to Decatur area near Point Mallard and all we have for transportation is two motorcycles. What_s the daily commute like for someone on a motorcycle driving from Point Mallard area in Decatur, AL to the SW area of Huntsville, AL? Never been there so I have no idea what to expect.

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25 miles isnt bad.


but everytime i do that route it is a busy route...
dont go often i live in destin,fla
we just go to the space camp etc.

What time of the year do the cherry blossoms fall off?|134148

I know they bloom in DC around April, and there is the festival, but when do they fall off? Thanks!

Probably May to June.

Japan gave 3,020 cherry blossom trees as a gift to the United States in 1912 to celebrate the nations_ then-growing friendship. These trees were planted in Sakura Park in Manhattan and famously line the shore of the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. (see West Potomac Park), and the gift was renewed with another 3,800 trees in 1965. The cherry blossom trees continue to be a popular tourist attraction (and the subject of the annual National Cherry Blossom Festival) when they reach full bloom in early spring. Also, Balboa Park of Los Angeles has 2,000 cherry blossom trees that blossom in mid to late March. The trees are located on Balboa Boulevard in Van Nuys. Philadelphia is also home to over 2000 flowering Japanese cherry trees, half of which were a gift from the Japanese government in 1926 in honor of the 150th anniversary of American independence, with the other half planted by the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia between 1998 and 2007. Philadelphia_s cherry blossoms are located within Fairmount Park, and the annual Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia celebrates the blooming trees. The University of Washington in Seattle also has cherry blossoms in its Quad.


Cherry blossom in Newark, New JerseyOther US cities have an annual Cherry Blossom Festival (or Sakura Matsuri), including the International Cherry Blossom Festival in Macon, Georgia, which features over 300,000 cherry trees. Belleville, Bloomfield, and Newark, New Jersey celebrate the annual Branch Brook Park Cherry Blossom Festival in April, which attracts thousands of visitors from the local area, Japan, and India. As of April 2009, Branch Brook Park has a cherry tree collection with over 4,000 cherry blossoms in more than fourteen different varieties. Branch Brook Park will soon have more flowering cherry trees than Washington, D.C., thanks to an ongoing replanting program. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York City also has a large, well-attended festival. But mainly, people say they fall around April. When they blossom, its the most beautiful thing in the world kinda feels like you are in heaven. Hope this helped! PS thanks wikipedia for the info!!


Germany
The cherry blossom is a major tourist attraction in Germany_s Altes Land orchard region.


Great Britain
Batsford Arboretum holds the national collection of Japanese village cherries, sato-sakura group.


South Korea
Cherry blossoms are also indigenous to South Korea. Watching of cherry blossom was introduced to Korea during Japanese Occupation since Japanese watched cherry blossoms in Korea in an attempt to create an atmosphere of Japan. The festivals continued even after the Japanese surrendered in WWII because botanists were able to trace the origin of the cherry blossom to the natural flora of Halla mountain in Korea, but not to any natural flora in Japan. _In 1933, the Japanese botanist Koizumi Genichi reported that the Japanese Sakura(Somei Yoshino) is of Jeju-do islandorigin. In 1992, Takaki Kiyoko, another botanist specializing in sakura, also claimed that the Yoshino sakura hails from Jeju Island. According to Invest Korea journal, more evidence supporting this claim is that while this species of cherry tree is indigenous to Korea and can be found as part of the natural flora of Mount Halla, it cannot be found anywhere in Japan_.However, this claim did not become the mainstream of botanists. In 1916, Ernest Henry Wilson insisted on _Japanese Sakura(Somei Yoshino)_ was a crossbreed of the wild species of Japanese Sakura (_Edo higan_ and _Oshima sakura_).In 1991, Professor of Tsukuba University Iwasaki Fumio reported that _Japanese Sakura(Somei Yoshino) were born in around 1720-1735 by the artificial crossing in Edo(Tokyo)._Recent studies conducted on the comparison of Korean and Japanese cherry blossoms by botanist concluded that the two trees can be categorized as distinct species when analyzed by inter-simple sequence repeat and chloroplast DNA in 2007.Further studies are ongoing. This lead Japan to develop many theories on how and where the cultivated hybrids came to be but its origin is still obscure.Scientia Horiculturae volume 114 states cherry blossoms _that grows under natural environments in Jeju, Korea and of Yoshino cherry hybrids that grows only in cultivated conditions in Japan_. Koreans decided to continue the festivals with Koreas natural flora of Cherry blossoms and have been watching cherry blossoms bloom during various festival throughout South Korea, with the Korean weather agency announcing a forecast every year.

Certain trees at Seoul_s Gyeongbok Palace were cut down to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Japanese surrender in WWII.Although Cherry blossoms are already indigenous to Korea, Japan had planted these tree on sacred and offensive locations in the Palace. Once the offensive trees were cut down the festival continued with the indigenous trees. The cherry blossom festival at Gyeongbok Palace is one of

Anywhere from 2 to 4 weeks starting in as early as late February through the end of April. The peak for the blossoms is around the last week in March where I live in WA State. The temperature determines when the blossoms appear. It takes about 2 weeks of mild, temperate warmer weather with NO frost for the trees to start blooming. What gets me is the blossoms all appear well before the actual leaves, though there are leaf buds ready and waiting when the blossoms appear.

The cherry blossoms only last for a few weeks so they are long gone.

However, DC is currently coming into crape myrtle season which I think is at least as pretty as the cherry blossoms.

They_ll generally last about a month from the time they bloom, but the weather can cause them to drop faster.

They bloom for about 3 - 4 weeks and then they fall off.

I think they might have fallen off about a month ago..
or at least they have where I live..in WI

Spring to Summer.

about a month ago

june

How can we find employment opportunities in National Parks?|132057

We are a retired man and wife and would like to work part time in some of the Naltional parks

You could go to the National Park Service (website) employment page (see link below). You can search for a particular park and job type there.

You can do what the person above me said. Also, I think you can check out USAJobs. I_m pretty sure they have National Park Service openings posted on there as well.
www.usajobs.opm.gov

become a firefighter and commit arson

Visit the national parks www.nps.gov website to find out information.

They should have position openings listed and contact numbers.