Hello,

I am looking some general advice about my planned road trip route from Austin to Los Angeles - any knowledge and recommendations would be greatly appreciated as I am from the UK and this will be my first trip to this part of the USA (although I have done three other road trips of similar length elsewhere).

Currently, we are flying into Austin (found some super cheap flights & heard it is a cool city) and will be staying for four full days. After some research, it looks like it would be best to get an internal flight to Albuquerque to start our road trip rather than the long drive out of Texas (comments on whether this is the right idea are very welcome though).

From there, the current route planned is:

Day 6 of trip: morning flight into Albuquerque from Austin. Collect car and drive straight to Santa Fe.
Day 7: Santa Fe to Ouray via Million Dollar Highway
Day 8: Ouray to Monument Valley to Page
Day 9: Page - North Rim of Grand Canyon to Kanab
Day 10: Kanab to Las Vegas via Zion National Park
Day 11: Vegas to Joshua Tree
Day 12: Joshua Tree to Palm Springs to LA up Highway 1
Day 13-15: Stay in LA. Fly back to UK.

Any suggestions are very welcome - we don't mind the long days driving and are the type of people that prefer to drive and see things quite quickly, rather then get out the car and go for a hike for an afternoon. We also want a good mix between city and nature for this road trip.

Thank you!

Lucy