Hi all,

First and foremost the amount of information I have gained from reading this forum alone has been invaluable, better then what I have gotten from any book.

I am from Australia and my future wife and I are planning a cross USA trip as our honeymoon in November. Not as romantic as one would expect but we are the traveling and sight seeing types! My fiance hasn't seen much of Australia but she has been in awe of the places I have taken her too that I seen before on my previous travels. I have traveled around Australia by road and by plane and both had their pros and cons so I have pitched the idea to combine the 2 forms of travel on our honeymoon to get the experience of driving in America without it cutting too much time out of spending time in places we want to be.

We have about a month to travel and just want to be able to take in as much as we can in our time over there. We are fairly young (mid-20s) and have had a lot of energy to pack in a lot of things on our holidays.

Being a honeymoon we have a very large budget and really only time is our limit. I have put together a summarized draft itinerary and wanted to get ideas on places or experiences that in your opinion we shouldn't miss while driving between city's.

Day 1 - San Francisco (land in from Melbourne, obtain car rental at this time)
Day 2 - San Francisco
Day 3 - San Francisco
Day 4 - Drive San Francisco - Los Angeles
Day 5 - Los Angeles
Day 6 - Los Angeles
Day 7 - Los Angeles
Day 8 - Drive Los Angeles to Las Vegas
Day 9 - Las Vegas
Day 10 - Las Vegas
Day 11 - Fly Las Vegas - Denver (Return car rental at airport)
Day 12 - Denver
Day 13 - Denver
Day 14 - Fly Denver to San Antonio (Obtain car rental in San Antonio)
Day 15 - San Antonio
Day 16 - San Antonio
Day 17 - Drive San Antonio to Houston (Via Austin)
Day 18 - Houston
Day 19 - Fly Houston - Washington DC (return car rental at Houston airport and obtain new car in Washington)
Day 20 - Washington DC
Day 21 - Drive Washington DC to New York
Day 22 - New York
Day 23 - New York
Day 24 - New York
Day 25 - New York
Day 26 - Fly Back to Melbourne, AU from NYC

While this is a fairly set structure to the trip it isn't entirely set in concrete, we could add more days if needed. A couple of things I have thought about adding include:
- Stopping in Yosemite Park overnight in between SF and LA
- Day trip to and from Laredo during one of the days at San Antonio.
- adding a couple of days and driving from Washington to Niagara Falls, staying the night in Buffalo and then to New York (kinda not wanting to do this as I would really not like back tracking to NYC, and we would like to end our trip in the big apple)
- Adding an extra day to Las Vegas and driving to the Grand Canyon sky walk as a day trip to and from Vegas (or just do it on one of the days we spend in Vegas)

As you can tell I have tried to put alot of thought into this!

But please, the reason for the road stints is to get a true grasp of the American landscape and culture outside of it's major cities and would highly appreciate any suggestions into where we should stop, what we should see, what we should experience, what we should eat while driving in between the cities listed in the itinerary (which I have coloured red)

Of course if there are any suggestions on what we should do in the cities themselves or places that I could easily be slipped into that itinerary that might not be in the travel guides would also be appreciated.

Thanks