I am trying to plan a summer road trip. We are a family of 5, 2 adults, 3 kids 10,12,14.
We are experienced tent camper on the east coast, but no arid or desert camping experience.
We would like to visit the Alamo, Grand Canyon, Yosemite National Park, and are going to visit family in Portland.
We are starting our trip from our home in Charleston, SC and have aproximately 5 weeks to spend on the road with a budget of about 3500.00. We mostly prepare meals ourselves and have the ability to do this on the road as well. We would ike to stick to national parks or state parks. My questions are
1) Can this be done time wise
2) Have we budgeted enough Money
3)Does anyone have any suggestions about family friendly/ budget friendly activities
4)Does anyone think we could return trip across the northern part of the US and stay within budget?

Any help or advice that you could offer would be great


Casey