Hello all,

I'm from England and have been planning a roadtrip with my girlfriend for the last 5 or 6 months - I use the term 'planning' loosely as I don't have much more of an idea of what I'm doing now as I did before I started planning!

I've been visiting your site regularly over the last 2 or 3 months with great interest, I've found the threads really helpful and have taken on board a lot of the ideas that have been knocking around.

All I looking for is a little guidance. My girlfriend and I fly into San Francisco on Nov 12 and have booked a return ticket to take us home, from Miami on April 8th next year.
We have saved enough money (I think), we'll have $15,000 or so fro the trip. We hope to lease a car, and basically drive, starting in San Francisco and ending in Miami and taking in as much as we can inbetween. We have planned a basic itinery, but we keep stumbling across new things we'd like to see, but we're unsure if we can fit it all in.

My original idea was just to save the money fly over to USA and take it from there - however now it is getting nearer I'm getting a little nervous - I'm 24 and am giving up my career to do this as I feel I can't grow old without experiencing something so amazing as this, but would it be foolish of us to just fly out without a trict plan of our trip, or is the fun part not knowing waht to do!!???

Soory I've dragged on, but any advice would be much appreciated!

Nervous Englishman