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It may not seem like it at first blush, but you have just about enough time to make this trip comfortably and enjoyably. Assuming that you want to spend a day or so in New Orleans, and want to make a few other stops of a couple of hours each, then - with the five days you'll have to devote to the driving - your seven days are all spoken for.

If you stop to visit Gulf Islands National Seashore, or some other venue on the way, then you should arrive in New Orleans on the evening of your second day on the road. That would let you enjoy the a couple of evenings of the night life without having to worry about driving impaired. Hitting the road again on the morning of the fourth day you'd head up through Shreveport to I-20 and Dallas, and then take US-287 up to I-40 near Amarillo. A couple of stops worth considering would be the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas and Cadillac Ranch outside Amarillo. Then I-40 across New Mexico and Arizona would bring you within visiting distance of Petroglyph National Monument, Petrified Forest National park, and of course the Grand Canyon. So you can see that your one 'spare' day will quickly disappear. Finally, you'd leave I-40 at Kingman AZ and take US-93 up past Hoover Dam to Las Vegas.

AZBuck