For your final project, you are going on an “Amazing Race”

across the United States. Where you go is up to you. You will use

PowerPoint and Excel for your project.

http://mrhersh.edu.glogster.com/the-amazing-race

You have just entered “The Amazing Race”. Your job is to travel west

across the United States spending only one night in 3 different cities. You are to leave from and return to any one of

the three New York area airports (Kennedy, LaGuardia, or Newark).

1. YOU MUST TRAVEL WEST ACROSS THE UNITED STATES AND BACK.

2. YOU HAVE TO STOP IN 3 CITIES AND ONLY SPEND 1 NIGHT IN EACH.

3. FOR EACH CITY YOU HAVE TO FIND THE FOLLOWING:

A HOTEL TO STAY IN

AN ATTRACTION TO VISIT

A PICTURE OF A FAMOUS PLACE IN THE CITY

3 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE CITY

A RESTAURANT AND MEAL FOR DINNER

4. KEEP TRACK OF THE MONEY YOU SPEND (FOOD, HOTEL, ENTERTAINMENT, ETC.) IN EXCEL. (USE FORMULAS)

5. CREATE A PRESENTATION IN POWERPOINT ABOUT YOUR TRIP. INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

A TITLE SLIDE WITH YOUR TITLE, NAME, DATE, CLASS

A SLIDE WITH A U.S. MAP HIGHLIGHTING YOUR DESTINATION CITIES

A SLIDE FOR EACH OF THE CITIES YOU VISIT – INCLUDING ALL OF THE INFORMATION FROM #3. (Except a picture of the hotel)

A SLIDE WITH YOUR SPREADSHEET ON IT

A SLIDE WITH YOUR SOURCES – SITES YOU USED TO FIND INFORMATION .

A SLIDE WITH YOUR POSTCARD ON IT

May 14, 2013

5-1

COLORADO SPRINGS, COCOLORADO SPRINGS, CO

LAS VEGAS, NVLAS VEGAS, NV

PALM SPRINGS, CAPALM SPRINGS, CA

•Home to Pikes Peak, the most visited mountain in the United States.Home to Pikes Peak, the most visited mountain in the United States.

• Colorado Springs became especially popular with the British and Colorado Springs became especially popular with the British and acquired the nickname Little London. acquired the nickname Little London.

•Colorado’s second largest cityColorado’s second largest city

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http://www.rogerwendell.com/images/pikespeak/pikes_peak_summit_roger_wendell_tom_and_linda_jagger_06-10-2006.jpg

•Gambling became legalized in Vegas in 1931.

•Combine the Strip and downtown, there are more than 15,000 miles of lighted neon tubing.

•Over 38.9 million people visit Las Vegas each year.

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•Hollywood discovered Palm Springs as early as about 1919.

•Since then, Palm Springs has become known as "The Playground of the Stars."

•Palm Springs averages about 350 days of sunshine per year.

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FLIGHT INFO  

Date Departure City Time Arrival City Time Stops Cost Airline

5/14/2012Newark, NJ 6:30 AMChicago, IL 10:15 AMNone $ 220.00 Jet Blue

5/15/2012Chicago, IL 9:30 AMJackson Hole, WY 3:30 PMDenver, CO $ 235.00 Continental5/16/2012Jackson Hole, WY 10:15 AMSeattle, WA 2:15 PMDenver, CO $ 354.00 US Airways

5/17/2012Seattle, WA 7:25 AMNewark, NJ 4:45 PMNone $ 250.00 Continental

TOTAL $ 1,059.00

Hotel InfoDate Hotel Name City Cost

5/14/2012Hyatt Chicago $ 125.00

5/15/2012Marriott Jackson Hole $ 213.00 5/16/2012Holiday Inn Seattle $ 89.00

TOTAL $ 427.00

Food and EntertainmentDate Breakfast Lunch Dinner Meal Restaurant Attraction Total

5/14/2012 $ 5.00 $ 12.00 $ 35.00 Sushi Sakura Bana $ 18.00 $ 70.00

5/15/2012 $ - $ 10.00 $ 45.00 Filet Mignon JH Steakhouse $ 12.00 $ 67.00 5/16/2012 $ 10.00 $ 8.00 $ 23.00 Tuna Oceanos $ 38.00 $ 79.00

Total $ 216.00

Grand Total $ 1,702.00

Money Remaining $ 298.00

Dear Andrew and Ian,

 

I am having a wonderful time on my vacation. I wish you were here. I climbed Pikes Peak in Colorado, you would have loved the view! Next, I stopped in Las Vegas. There is so much to do there. What a crazy place! Palm Springs is about 97 degrees right now. I am roasting! I took lots of pictures of the hot springs. I can’t wait to show you. See you in a couple days.

Love, Dad

To: Andrew and Ian Hershberger 371 Lafayette Ave.Ringwood, NJ 07456

From: Mr. Hershberger Cambridge Inn 1277 S. Palm Canyon Palm Springs, CA 92264

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