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USA Roadtrip : Need some ideas !

Hawaii.

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Cisero said:
Hey everybody :D

My friend and I are organizing a 6 week roadtrip in the U.S. We have already organised the first 3 weeks (California, Monument Valley, Vegas, Montana, Denver, ABQ) but we need ideas for the second half of our trip.
So basically, if you had three weeks to go from ABQ to NYC, where would you go ? Through which states would you drive ? We were thinking of driving up to Chicago -> Washington -> NYC.

Any ideas ? :D

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Well if you are going to Denver, I'd use I-70.. see America's heartland. Flat land unlike Switzerland. But I really suggest you go through.. I-81/I-70 (Hagerstown, Maryland).. You can go here to eat. Owners are from Bavaria and when I am back in the States, I always go there for some really good German food. While you are there, it's not even a half day trip you can go to Antietam, MD (Maryland) (bloodiest day in American history), also visit places like Waynesboro PA and Cascade MD which will resemble Canton Zurich (without Zurich)..these areas are German/Swiss influenced. Then you can be on your way to D.C.
 
Beaudreaux said:
Use it as a main trunk to get across the country, and branch off and then back again as they go. On I-10 they can visit Phoenix and take a side trip to the beautiful Sonoran Desert and spend the night in Gila Bend (I have relatives there) and then in Las Cruces or El Paso, and once they're in your state, take a ride on a boat along the river walk in San Antonio down the San Antonio River and visit the Alamo, run south from Houston to Galveston Island then take a fishing trip in the Sabine Pass. Then they have the rest of the Gulf Coast - visit a casino in Lake Charles, eat some food like they have never had and will never have again in Lafayette (the center of Cajun Country [Acadia]), then visit the French Quarter in New Orleans, stay the night on the beach in Biloxi, tour old downtown Mobile, and visit the pristine white sands of Panama City Beach, then spend a day in the oldest city in the US, Saint Augustine.

And that's just I-10. Then they can start up I-95 with Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, Norfolk/Suffolk/Richmond, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Atlantic City, Philadelphia and the birth place of our government, and then of course NYC and all it has to offer.

Sure, they could take the back roads, but what we forget is how BIG our country actually is. They only have 6 weeks. If they want to spend time in any single area, they will need to get from one point to the other rather quickly.

We have states that it can take longer to travel across than most of Western Europe. Just my suggestion though.
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If they are going to Denver, why take I-10? Gettysburg is 2 hour trip off I-95.
 
Cisero said:
This sounds insanely convincing, I'll look into it :) Thanks !
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Take I-40 in New Mexico. Oklahoma City, Little Rock, Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville.. switch to I-81 go up the spine of the Appalachians (George Washington and Jefferson National Park) to Hagerstown.. do that day trip and be in DC by night fall. From there you can do Philly and Boston in 3 days.
 
You should definitely check out Supai, Arizona. A beautiful place to take a drive to, or so I hear.
 
Cisero said:
Hey everybody :D

My friend and I are organizing a 6 week roadtrip in the U.S. We have already organised the first 3 weeks (California, Monument Valley, Vegas, Montana, Denver, ABQ) but we need ideas for the second half of our trip.
So basically, if you had three weeks to go from ABQ to NYC, where would you go ? Through which states would you drive ? We were thinking of driving up to Chicago -> Washington -> NYC.

Any ideas ? :D

:lol:
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No visit to the eastern half of the U.S. would be complete without a stop in New Orleans.
 
Cisero said:
Hey everybody :D

My friend and I are organizing a 6 week roadtrip in the U.S. We have already organised the first 3 weeks (California, Monument Valley, Vegas, Montana, Denver, ABQ) but we need ideas for the second half of our trip.
So basically, if you had three weeks to go from ABQ to NYC, where would you go ? Through which states would you drive ? We were thinking of driving up to Chicago -> Washington -> NYC.

Any ideas ? :D

:lol:
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Spent 8 weeks in the Canyonlands and still didn't get it all in, so I'm no help at all. I like the eastern side of the mountains in Oregon and canoeing in Canada north of Ely, Minn. 2nd best. The eastern U.S. has lots of nice scenery, particularly western and central Penn., and up through Vermont and Maine, and northeastern NY state, but the congestion and general hassle of getting through and back out cancels it all out, imo. Fall is a better time to travel in all cases as well.
 
Cisero said:
Hey everybody :D

My friend and I are organizing a 6 week roadtrip in the U.S. We have already organised the first 3 weeks (California, Monument Valley, Vegas, Montana, Denver, ABQ) but we need ideas for the second half of our trip.
So basically, if you had three weeks to go from ABQ to NYC, where would you go ? Through which states would you drive ? We were thinking of driving up to Chicago -> Washington -> NYC.

Any ideas ? :D

:lol:
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Since you are traveling from Denver to New Mexico, be sure to stop for a couple of hours in Colorado Springs and drive to the top of America's mountain...Pikes Peak. On a clear day, you can see Kansas from there.

Oh...and be mindful of the weather. It's not unheard of to run into a snowstorm on the Raton Pass in June and July.

In regard to the rest of your trip, there have been some great suggestions made here, but I would also suggest a leg devoted to the Tennessee and Kentucky areas. Very beautiful.


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If you make this trip, stay off the interstate highways. Secondary and state roads will give you a better taste of the various geographical cultures in the US.
 
Oberon said:
Spent 8 weeks in the Canyonlands and still didn't get it all in, so I'm no help at all. I like the eastern side of the mountains in Oregon and canoeing in Canada north of Ely, Minn. 2nd best. The eastern U.S. has lots of nice scenery, particularly western and central Penn., and up through Vermont and Maine, and northeastern NY state, but the congestion and general hassle of getting through and back out cancels it all out, imo. Fall is a better time to travel in all cases as well.
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Did you ever visit the Blue Hole in Oregon?

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Tamolitch, The Blue Pool | Travel Oregon
 
BitterPill said:
Did you ever visit the Blue Hole in Oregon?
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No, never made it. It's been highly recommended to me by several people. I've lived in Portland twice once in the 1980's before the Cali invasion, and after the invasion, and still didn't come close to seeing all I wanted to.

Sorry for the late necro-response, but I don't hang out on this board much or often.
 
Cisero said:
Hey everybody :D

My friend and I are organizing a 6 week roadtrip in the U.S. We have already organised the first 3 weeks (California, Monument Valley, Vegas, Montana, Denver, ABQ) but we need ideas for the second half of our trip.
So basically, if you had three weeks to go from ABQ to NYC, where would you go ? Through which states would you drive ? We were thinking of driving up to Chicago -> Washington -> NYC.

Any ideas ? :D

:lol:
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I could tell you every cool place to go this side of the Rockies (Entire West Coast)... once past Colorado you are on your own. :)
 
I'd travel the BoWash corridor, hit all the cities and the Adirondacks and end in northern Maine.
 
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