If you are driving properly, and your brakes are in good condition, there is no reason your brakes should have burned up. If you were properly driving, taking advantage of engine and exhaust braking,...
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If you are driving properly, and your brakes are in good condition, there is no reason your brakes should have burned up. If you were properly driving, taking advantage of engine and exhaust braking,...
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I have to agree with GLC, I-70 through Colorado is pretty clearly your best bet. The reality is that once you're in Moab, there's no way to get to Ohio without going over...
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Your car rental contract probably will forbid the use of chains, so it's probably a non-starter for you.
But as Donna indicated, they likely wouldn't be useful for...
Those are all fine campground, and since many of them are walk-in, they would usually be more secluded and available - although since some of their recommendations are regular state parks, they will...
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Yes - anytime you're hitting a small town in an otherwise open section of highway should pay close attention to speed limits, especially right on the edge...
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Minnesota does have some dispersed camping options, but it's certainly far more limited than out west.
The Superior National Forest is going to be your best bet...
My initial thought is that with day 2, you would be to just use that extra time to explore Cincinnati itself. There's plenty of art and architecture in the city that you could check out, before...
Honestly, it seems like with your latest loop, you're once again back to really trying to squeeze 15 pounds of trip back into a 10 pound can again. You've completely removed Memphis from your plans...
Water taxi in Chicago is much more of a novelty than it is a real transportation method. It certainly won't get you anywhere near the airport.
The train (blue line) from O'Hare to downtown takes...
If direct flights are a priority, then I would also look at Atlanta and possibly Charlotte. Both have direct flights to London and are a fair bit closer than Chicago to most of your priority...
Looking at your plans, are you locked into Chicago as your starting/ending point?
Chicago is a great city, but it really just seems a long way away from everything else you're planning to do....
I'm actually most surprised by the car rental. I would have expected Chicago to LA to be the most expensive, by a pretty large margin. Having a one way rental, especially of this distance, be cheaper...
My first impression of your plan is you are doing an incredible amount of zig-zagging and backtracking. The vast majority of that seems to be part of your goal to drive nearly all of Route 66.
If...
$100 per person per day for food is a pretty massive budget. You certainly could spend that, if you're eating high dollar items at high dollar restaurants and/or getting lots of alcoholic drinks, but...
As GLC mentioned, you're not going to be able to drive any of the loop at Crater Lake. The road to the visitor center/rim village will be open, but the east and west rim roads close for the season on...
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April to June is a pretty big window - how much time are you actually thinking of spending on the road?
It sounds like you've already got a plan to get to New Orleans,...
That is a good starting point, but it does make some pretty common mistakes, especially in regarding trying to do too much in an attempt to see everything.
First off, arriving in Las Vegas and...
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The beauty of a RoadTrip is that you get to go any place you'd like to go and you aren't forced to follow someone else's itinerary.
Yellowstone is amazing - it's one...
WI-26 is a good route and a heavily used shortcut between Madison and Oshkosh/Appleton/Green Bay, however, make sure to watch your speed, especially in Rosendale, the only town on that stretch of...
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For the border crossing, I would probably lean towards Sarnia while towing. It's basically a freeway to freeway connection, so you don't have to worry about navigating...
Just confirming what Dave said, tolls on the Richmond bridge are only collected for West bound traffic.
The rule of thumb is that for bay area bridges, you're charged heading towards San Francisco...
She doesn't have a dog, at least not for her American travels, but one of our longtime members, Lifemagician, has traveled solo to Alaska several times. She's from Australia, has some mobility...
I'll say, I might be in the minority, but I generally thought the reservation systems were a net positive. I haven't visited Yosemite since they started using them, but I did visit Rocky Mountain NP...
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I presume when you ask about the earliest you should consider you're talking about weather. The reality is that weather can't be predicted more than a few days in...
I've done roadtrips with friends using different cars, staying at the same places, and eating at the same places, but still branching out to do our own things from time to time.
But I've never...
