We probably get more stories from the USA than any other country. Everyone wants to go there and write about it - even despite the hassle of getting in.

But with the USA far outside the soaring cost of the Euro zone, and £1 still = $2, interest is high in travelling across the Atlantic.

Here are 10 of my favourite ideas for getting out and about beyond New York:

1 DIY holidays: family RV holiday in America - how to plan it, what happened in Colorado and Wyoming - and what Mark Solomons wishes he'd known beforehand

Chicago, Chicago

There’s so much to the city, it’s amazing that people compare it to America’s ‘other’ city

A chaffeured wine tour of California

Matt Rudd finds a chauffeur to drive so he can carry on quaffing

BACKGROUND

• De Niro's New York hotel

• Hip Hop New York

• New York: stay for under £100

• 20 classic New York stories

• A world of food in New York

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2 Lordy, how Ft Lauderdale has changed - it had a reputation for college kid parties. How to stop it? Knock down the beach motels and build dazzling hotels

3 Ride 'em, cowgirl in Utah - driving an unruly herd of cattle across Utah while camping out is no holiday for slackers says Lisa ter Haar

4 Stay with the Palm Springs stars - you can sleep at Sinatra’s, party at Presley's or meet at Marilyn's. In Palm Springs, the past is so much more now than the future says Katie Bowman

5 Martha's Vineyard, cream of the USA - such a lovely sounding place - the reality is even better for David Baddiel in Massachusetts

6 Denver to California by rail - the comfort of a cruise and the versatility of a train. It’s the best way to travel across America

7 America's most colourful state: New Mexico - Danny Danziger indulged his senses in America’s most exotic and colourful state

8 San Diego, party central - once a soulless last stop before Mexico, San Diego has finally found its pulse. Rob Ryan checks out the hottest clubs in town

9 Family Florida (and not a mouse in sight) - cop cars, alligators, hot dogs, ice cream, fake breasts, airboats – you don’t need Disney to stay busy in the Sunshine State

10 California campervan - bears and bolshie children are an essential part of a family van trip, says Robert Crampton

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