Thread: New Bucket List

Having travelled a great deal, but never visited USA I am indebted to the many merkin posts on here, politics excluded of course.

It has re-ignited my long held fascination with a country of such diverse geography and human content.

My ideal would be a road trip, in the shape of the old confederate flag cross.

Ideas and suggestions welcome, especially how much time to allow for the trip.
TIA

Originally Posted by Switch

My ideal would be a road trip, in the shape of the old confederate flag cross.

Ideas and suggestions welcome, especially how much time to allow for the trip.
TIA

Get a map and highlighter pen out and have at it.

Originally Posted by Switch

My ideal would be a road trip, in the shape of the old confederate flag cross.

There's a reason why a cross is not the route map of anybody's holiday journey, ever.

Originally Posted by David48atTD

Amazing Country, interesting people.

Forget any preconceptions or experiences of 'Yanks abroad' ... some of the warmest, inviting people
I've ever had the pleasure to meet.


3 favorite places

The Grand Canyon
Yellowstone
The Painted Desert (head them off at the pass cowboy)


3 favorite cities

San Diago
Boulder
Las Vegas ... much to my surprise!


3 favorite things to do

A Mets game in NY
The Staton Island Ferry @ night NY is STUNNING on a clear night across the harbour.
Meeting people. Not being shy, almost everyone gets mistaken for being English.


I drove the western seaboard Highway up to Lake Taho ... brilliant !

Enjoy


When in a Diner, order one meal for 2 people ... they are usually huge in size and could feed a small African country.

I like most Americans who have travelled, especially those I met on military duty.

I am English. No chance of being mistaken.

3 fav places (no order)

Oregon coast
Alaskan wild
Rocky Mountains


3 fav cities (no order)

San Fran
Seattle
New Orleans

Originally Posted by Switch

My ideal would be a road trip, in the shape of the old confederate flag cross.

rectangle?

Originally Posted by hick

3 fav places (no order)

Oregon coast
Alaskan wild
Rocky Mountains


3 fav cities (no order)

San Fran
Seattle
New Orleans

Never got to Alaska, cant argue about the other two.


Never got to Seattle, cant argue about the other two.

New Orleans was a hoot. A hot and humid hoot though.

Originally Posted by uncle junior

rectangle?

Both coasts., plus a general NW to SE and another diagonal NE to S W.

Vegas is a great time and VERY affordable IF:

- you go during the week
- you gamble responsibly

Originally Posted by Switch

Both coasts., plus a general NW to SE and another diagonal NE to S W.

What are you planning to drive?

cross-country rentals can get steep.

might consider buying a beast...

World's Largest Ball of Twine - Cawker City, Kansas

I was thinking of buying that oldsmobile that the Fish pictured. lol

That negotiation could use up most of your allotted time(!)

Lost of options for this one. All would depend on the ratio of city to countryside you want.

You could do something like this.

Seattle>Portland>Salt Lake City>Denver>Oklahoma City>Dallas>Austin>Houston>New Orleans.

You could choose to go further south to San Francisco and over through Vegas as well. But the above route would show you a pretty damn diverse slice of America. I have driven it both ways and it is incredibly scenic with plenty of interesting things to see along the way.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Lost of options for this one. All would depend on the ratio of city to countryside you want.

You could do something like this.

Seattle>Portland>Salt Lake City>Denver>Oklahoma City>Dallas>Austin>Houston>New Orleans.

You could choose to go further south to San Francisco and over through Vegas as well. But the above route would show you a pretty damn diverse slice of America. I have driven it both ways and it is incredibly scenic with plenty of interesting things to see along the way.

I think you are in Seattle? OP could go to where the posters are - you, jeff in Portland - who else? MK is somewhere in the deep south I think?

New England to San Diego could be a good trip. Especially if you stay off the interstates.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

I think you are in Seattle? OP could go to where the posters are - you, jeff in Portland - who else?

Originally Posted by nidhogg

MK is somewhere in the deep south I think?

Frisco Frankie in SF, MK is in Georgia. Skkin is in Indiana I think. Storekeeper is also in the Seattle area as is grampa.

I did a cross country road trip back in 1993 with a friend of my brother it was great. We started in Annapolis drove straight to Denver because it was during that big flooding in the mid west that summer we couldn't find a hotel room. Then hit every state to the west as well as Mexico and Canada. On the west coast we started in San Diego and drove up the coast to Seattle. We drove just over 10,000 miles and hit 25 states. If you plan to hit the National parks, back then you could buy a golden eagle pass and use it to enter all the national parks maybe state to I can't remember. It took us about 3 1/2 weeks. If I was to do it over I would spend more time but we were young. We only stayed in a hotel four times camped the rest.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Frisco Frankie in SF, MK is in Georgia. Skkin is in Indiana I think. Storekeeper is also in the Seattle area as is grampa.

Thanks for the proposed itinerary. Sounds interesting and doable. Also for the tip on avoiding grampa.

I’m a country boy at heart, so national parks would be a must.

The cities that have tempted me would be, San Diego, Seattle, Portland, New Orleans and Boston.

Hick got me thinking seriously about Alaska too.

Originally Posted by SKkin

traveling via the interstates is a soulless adventure

...unless, of course, you want to avoid soulful Christian areas in Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska and, more generally, the fly-over states...I suggest a focus on the northeast (early autumn), the southwest (mid-autumn) and the west coast (anytime)...