USA coast-to-coast, 14 days, what's your itinerary?
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As above really.
This might be in the pipeline for August/September. Been knocking a few ideas around, starting either New York or Miami, taking in Nashville and the Grand Canyon on the way to LA or San Francisco before a west coast drive to erm... either SF or LA. In the middle though, there's a whole lot of space I haven't filled so what would be the must-sees on your trip?
This might be in the pipeline for August/September. Been knocking a few ideas around, starting either New York or Miami, taking in Nashville and the Grand Canyon on the way to LA or San Francisco before a west coast drive to erm... either SF or LA. In the middle though, there's a whole lot of space I haven't filled so what would be the must-sees on your trip?
If you have a fun car, I enjoyed the following roads - a lot.
(I only went as far East as Monument Valley)
San Deigo - Palm Springs via Temecula & the route 243 (Banning-Idyliwild Panoramic Highway)
The road that runs though the Joshua Tree National park, from I10 to Route 62
You must go to Vegas, The Hoover Dam and Death Valley.
The 178 from Pahrump to Furnace Creek, via Badwater was epic, and if you follow the 190 to the 395 to Indian Wells, and re join the 178 it goes through the Sequoia National Park, mind blowing highway that winds down a valley.
The USAF use this area for test flights etc, and we got buzzed a few times by F16's. They use you moving car as target practice.
PCH1, imho, is better from North to South, and SF is a lot better than LA.
(I only went as far East as Monument Valley)
San Deigo - Palm Springs via Temecula & the route 243 (Banning-Idyliwild Panoramic Highway)
The road that runs though the Joshua Tree National park, from I10 to Route 62
You must go to Vegas, The Hoover Dam and Death Valley.
The 178 from Pahrump to Furnace Creek, via Badwater was epic, and if you follow the 190 to the 395 to Indian Wells, and re join the 178 it goes through the Sequoia National Park, mind blowing highway that winds down a valley.
The USAF use this area for test flights etc, and we got buzzed a few times by F16's. They use you moving car as target practice.
PCH1, imho, is better from North to South, and SF is a lot better than LA.
Edited by Nat_H on Thursday 22 April 13:02
Done the trip last year, Washington to San Francisco. We took four weeks and really we could have done with more. The problem is to see decent places you'll need to zig-zag most of the way which ever route you take. We ended up covering 6368 miles in total. Personally I'd say do either a trip round the East or West coast but not to bother coast to coast, even tho its just shy of 2500 miles it wont work out that way.
Fly into New York have a day or two then fly out to Vegas hire something good and drive to LA. 2 weeks to drive across the states sounds like a roadtrip rather than a holiday, I suspect you will be doing high miles everyday and only see the Interstate, the gas stations and the road side diners.
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