It is darn tough to get a walk-on anything in the LA film and model business. You may have a better chance in Minneapolis (a numbers game always favors less numbers in the pool) -- but your road trip could be epic.

New Mexico is a very cool place -- but Roswell is mostly a sleepy town. After leaving Kansas I would urge you to head to the Colorado & Utah Rockies -- plenty of awesome places for photography (check out the articles on this site for those two states).

Las Vegas can be a drag when you are 19 -- too young to gamble and party -- too old to be young. But it is the place to stage other road trips -- Five national parks are within 5 hours of downtown LV.

"This is really about the only time in my life I could do this kind of thing, so it needs to be well thought-out."

Forget that -- your life (as an adult) is just beginning you have an infinite number of opportunities to do future road trips. Don't plan too much -- just go for it.