Miami-SF. Whats the timeframe???
Hello fellow roadtrippers..
First of all. Thanks for finally finding a great forum with helpful members..
We're a norwegian couple who wants to make a roadtrip next spring... (a year ahead?!?!? I know...) And before we start to plan this to serious, we want to know if we're beeing totaly lost in dreaming here..
Because of kids and trouble with long time babysitting, I dont think we have more than about 14 days from arriving til heading back home.. (Maybe we'll squeese in a couple of days or three).
And before I get on, I have to say that we dont mind killing long average distances daily. We're used to long trips, and we're lovin' it..
Here we go.. Our dream is to start in Miami, get a glimpse of the everglades. follow south til New Orleans, and hit on to the 66 around Texas.. The canyons, Vegas are on the list, and LA as our destination.. (If possible even squeese in SF?).
Dear people. We ask you.. Can it be done???? or do we have to find a way to ease grandma the babysitter to buy us some extra days?
Well. Hope you have some reasonable tips for us. We really want to make this happen..
And folks.. The trip is the journey.
Relax, You've Got Lots of Time
Velkommen!
I make your one-way journey to be about 3,750 miles (6,000 km), including the Everglades, New Orleans, the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Los Angeles. So with 14 day you can actually relax and spend some time at places along the way. Note that Laura's trip was 4,100 (more) miles in 10 (fewer) days. Here's the tale of one I took that was 7,250 miles in 16 days. Yours is downright leisurely by comparison. Look into adding Baton Rouge and Natchez after New Orleans, Taos and Santa Fe in New Mexico, the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest in Arizona, and Death Valley, Yosemite and the Pacific Coast Highway in California. You probably can't fit them all in, but that doesn't mean that any of them is not worthy in its own right. Just pick the ones that suit you best.
AZBuck
How Many 'Grand's in 1068 Years?
No joke: As I have mentioned elsewhere on these forums, I am of Norman English descent. As near as we can tell, my forebearers went from Norway to France in 940 AD with Rollo Thorfinn, to England in 1066 with William, and finally to America in 1637.
AZBuck