My husband and I live in Queens, NY. We will be flying to LAX on 11/23, from where we will rent a car (booked a Nissan Maxima) and road-trip it back to NY. We have, technically, till 12/1/13 to complete the trip (but a day sooner will be better). Although we don't want to plan too much, we would like some idea of what states/cities we want to drive through (a general route). Would love to pass by natural beauties...plan on staying in motels/hotels along the way...

We have never done cross country before...but we have done all along the West Coast (last year) and all along the East coast (few yrs ago) one time each. so we aren't complete novices when it comes to long distance driving.

Any ideas/thoughts/suggestions you all may have, are most welcome.

p.s. we want to obviously avoid bad weather situations, so if there are places to def stay away from, let me know!