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You're going to have to save a lot of money for Tokyo/Kyoto or Australia, simply for the flights. If you're to go international, I almost recommend Europe because you can do some really awesome budget trips. I loved doing some awesome tours through Europe and did them on a budget. If you're interested in that, let me know.

Have you thought about Philadelphia or Boston? Philadelphia is great for US history (Independence Hall) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art is really top notch. With Philadelphia, you'd be able to tack on a day trip to NYC again. Or even head to Gettysburg. Possibly a day trip out to Lancaster County to see the Amish country.

Boston has tons of history and some interesting museums. I've only been there once, but I'm sure you can find a lot if you do your research.

I loved Seattle for the museums at the Space Needle and the Space Needle itself. I thought the University of Washington Campus was really pretty.

LA is a super diverse place and I love it so much. I've always gone for Hollywood stuff but there is a really awesome car museum (the Peterson Automotive Museum) and we stopped at the La Brea Tar Pits museum, which is a bit more child friendly than my friend and I thought. I loved doing Disneyland.

Give me feedback/ask questions and I can give more advice.

The money for the tickets shouldn't be a problem, I priced the tickets into Tokyo at $800 if I fly out of Houston. I've already got around $2000 saved up.

I thought about going to Europe (it'd likely be myself and my sister) but right now the political climate is a bit wonky. The big thing is that we would prefer public transportation instead of renting a car. How easy is it to travel between various countries? How much time would I need to take off. If I went on an international trip, I'd likely take off 10~ days. Maybe a bit longer.

Seattle and LA would probably be my picks for the US. It'd be cool to see the West coast of the USA. But I probably wouldn't be interested in Disneyland.

There's so much to see and do in LA without doing Disney, honestly. Especially if you look a little bit. I went out for a film festival and found random movie premieres and then went to a TV taping.

I hear you on the political climate. I'm glad the last time I went I did Busabout's Scandi-Baltic Adventure which was 8 days and 5 countries. We took taxis twice, I think, the entire trip. Otherwise it was public transit or cruises/ferries between the different cities. I added layovers in Oslo and Copenhagen. We stayed in hostels, so I don't know how you would feel about that.

Topdeck is another really great tour provider of Europe. I did both Topdeck and Busabout solo. If you go to Europe, I think you'd love Prague, it's one of my favorite cities.

I'll look around to see what is going on in LA.

How do these tours work? Is it like a field trip where they have an itinerary and such?

The tours can vary considerably based on what you're looking for, I'll speak about what I know. I've done three tours of Europe with 3 different companies and they've all been great, but different. I did Topdeck, Trafalgar, and Busabout.

The nicest overall: Trafalgar. That comes with it was also the most "high-end" of all the traveling I did in Europe and I still did the cost saver version. We stayed in hotels, but they were basic hotels. Breakfast was included every day and a few dinners were included too. The "optional" activities were more expensive than any of the other tours I did and the age range was also much higher. I'd say most were 40s and older, but there about 6 or so of us that were in our 20s. This is the one I did for Oktoberfest with a friend. This tour was Munich, Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, Vienna, Salzburg and back to Munich. This tour also was way more organized and if you did all of the optionals, there wasn't much free time to explore on your own. (For price comparison, the tour costs $1500, the flight was $1000, and I probably spent between $700-1000 on optionals/souvenirs/food)

Topdeck: I did this one for Easter in 2012 going from Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam and London. I stayed in hostels, but they do offer a cheap hotel option too, depending on the tour. Their hostels were really nice, but split among gender which would work well for you and your sister. I had a blast but this skewed very young, say 18-25, though the oldest on our tour was 33, most were early 20s, some late 20s. Topdeck also ages out at 39, which is probably simply based on the hostels they stay at. For this tour, we'd get a quick overview of every city we visited, our tour guide would point out interesting things and what were simply tourist traps and we'd have free time. In Berlin, we had the option to take a Third Reich walking tour and a pub crawl. They were super reasonable and no pressure to do any of the optionals. I added an extra few days in London to do the Harry Potter Studio Tour(Price comparison: the tour was $800, the flight was $900 and I probably spent $700-800 on optionals/souvenirs/food)

Busabout: I did this in July 2015 to Scandinavia and the Baltic countries and had a blast. This was the best age range (mid 20s to mid 30s) but we stayed in hostels the whole time. We picked our rooms and there was no boy/girl split, but most of the time it was 4 person rooms, sometimes more and sometimes less. This trip was the most relaxed of all of the trips I took. I wish they had given us a little more as far as things to do, but there wasn't too much I felt I missed. The tour included Tallinn, Helsinki, Stockholm, Riga, and Vilnius and I added Oslo and Copenhagen. (Price comparison: the tour was $900, the flight was $1200, and I probably spent about $700-800 on optionals/food/souvenirs)

Both Topdeck and Busabout had more reasonably priced optionals and included breakfast in the hostels, but these breakfasts were super basic and not what you would expect in the US hotels.. Dinners were not included with busabout but Topdeck included a few dinners.

The Trafalgar and Topdeck trips were both bus tours, but once you were in the city, it was up to you whether you wanted to take public transit or get a taxi or honestly just walk around. The busabout trip, well, we jokingly called it the booze cruise about tour because we took a boat from Tallinn to Helsinki, then Helsinki to Stockholm and then Stockholm to Riga.

As always, feel free to ask me to expand on anything.

Also, I did a week long California trip (flew to San Jose, then to La, back to San Jose, did San Francisco) and did not rent a car and took a taxi only once. Public transit is manageable in LA if you plan ahead.

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