Summer Roadtrip 09

[Lucinda]

Hello again,
we decided to wait and do the road trip this summer so we'd have more time to plan properly. We fly into boston on June 10th, drive up to Salem for 2 nights to get the trip started, then head down to Washington. Does anyone have any good suggestions of where we should stop off between Salem and Washington? If not anywhere to stop, then a good route to take? It takes about 8 hours to Washington, so we'd rather stop off somewhere as only one of us will be driving.

Also, what's everyone's opinion on Motel 6's? We traveling cheap, but if they're really bad then we might have to spend a bit more maybe??? Our first Motel 6 would be in Danvers and the reviews of it are pretty poor. We've been in some bad places before, but if it is genuinely that bad, we were thinking off spending a bit more - especially on our first couple of nights.

Thanks for the help
Lucy & Jo

{I haven't merged this new thread with the previous one, since the route is different, but many of your queries still apply -- be sure to re-read it).