Hi we are going to be doing our third road trip in the US this July August and would ask for any feed back on our projected itinerary regarding the time we have allocated. We have previously done road trips in the Western States where I suspect traffic is considerably lighter. We are not really interested in museums as such but enjoying the scenic views along the way.
regards
Rob


Arrive in Newark, NJ at midnight 15 Jul 2012

Day 1: Day trip into NY to see: Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square, Central Park, West/East ? Village, Grand Central Terminal, Rockefeller Centre, Ground Zero, Little Italy, Chinatown, SoHo, Greenwich Village, Wall St.

Day 2: Pick up rental car. Head across New York State toward Niagara Falls. Stop for night somewhere along the way e.g. Binghampton.

Day 3: Arrive Niagara Falls. Spend afternoon doing Niagara Falls tours / stay overnight.

Day 4: Niagara Falls to Erie, Pennsylvania and then Uniontown, PA

Day 5: Uniontown to Harpers Ferry National Park, West Virginia. Allow time to look around and then head toward Shenandoah National Park stopping for the night somewhere along the way.

Day 6: Drive to Shenandoah NP, Virginia and onto Bluestone National Scenic River, WV

Day 7: Follow the Blue Ridge Parkway to Ashville, NC

Day 8: Drive to Nashville, Tennessee

Day 9: Day off – look around Nashville

Day 10: Follow the Natchez Trace Parkway from Nashville to somewhere around Grenada, Tennessee

Day 11: Continue the Natchez Trace Parkway through to Natchez

Day 12: Drive to New Orleans, Louisiana

Day 13: Look around New Orleans

Day 14: Spend in New Orleans

Day 15: Drive to Marianna, Florida

Day 16: Drive via Pebble Hill Plantation, Georgia to Ocala, Florida

Day 17: Drive from Ocala to Stuart, Florida

Day 18: Spend with friends

Day 19: Drive from Stuart to Everglades National Park, Homestead and back to Stuart for the night

Day 20: Drive from Stuart to Jacksonville, Florida

Day 21: Drive from Jacksonville, through Savannah to Charleston, South Carolina

Day 22: Drive from Charleston through South Carolina

Day 23: Spend in South Carolina

Day 24: Drive through Myrtle Beach, through Wilmington, to Beaufort

Day 25: Drive to the Outer Banks, North Carolina

Day 26: Drive to Williamsburg, Maryland; have a look around and then on to Cheverly [a town close to Washington as we will need to get public transport (probably train) into the city & Cheverly might fit the bill].

Day 27: Day trip into Washington DC

Day 28: Drive to DELAWARE

Day 29: Philadelphia City and Schuylkill River Trail, Longwood Gardens, Valley Forge Historical Park, Hershey’s Chocolate factory

Day 30: NEW JERSEY

Day 31: Spend in New Jersey

Day 32: Want to be back in Newark by late afternoon as fly out tomorrow 17 August 2012