Hey All, three of us are planning to drive from San Fransisco to NYC in the first week of September. We have 8 days (maybe 9). I doubt if we will be able to spend time seeing sites or exploring cities on the way. So, we'd like to chose a route that is as scenic as possible so that we can enjoy 8 odd hours of driving as much as we can.

Any suggestions of which route to go? What parts to pass through? Some ideas we thought of are

California->Utah->Colorado->Kansas->Missouri->dip down to Tenesee for a day in nashville-> Kentucky ->ohio -> PA -> NY

or

CA -> Oregon-> Idaho->Wyoming/Montana->North Dakota->Minnesotta->dip down to Chicago->Ohio->PA->NY

or

CA->Arizona->new mexico-> Texas-> Lousiana-> Alabama-> Georgia ->Carolinas->Virginia->Delaware->....->NY

Any recommendation of the route? Dos and Don'ts?

JFYI - we all have been living in the states for a long time so this is more just as a road trip experience rather than seeing the country for the first time.