Here's my finalized itenerary-
Can you please make some suggestions of sites not to miss on the way if I havent included them?
All the routes are as shown on google maps.

Day 1- Leave Raleigh, NC. Drive thru Virginia-> West Virginia->Lexington, Kentucky -> Columbus, IN
633 miles, 10 hours 11 mins. Stay over night.

Day 2- Drive up to the Indianapolis motor speed way, visit the hall of fame museum. (1 hr drive, 52 miles north). Spend
Leave Indy-> Illinois-> St.Louis, Missouri -> Topeka, Kansas "the google city" -> Overland park, Kansas. Stay over night.
8 hr, 18 mins . 494 miles

Day 3- Leave Overland Park-> drive thru Prairie grassland country roads in Kansas.
237 miles, 3 hr 47 mins.
Take small deviation of I-70 to reach Lucas, Kansas.
Visit some of
Florence Deeble's Rock Garden, the Garden of Eden created by Samuel P. Dinsmoor, the Grassroots Art Center, and the World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things Traveling Roadside Attraction and Museum
what ever's possible in 2 hours.

Continue back on I-70 to reach foot hills of Pikes Peak in the Rocky mountains at Colorado Springs. Stay o/n.
372 miles, 6 hr 30 mins.

Any other routes suggested?


Day 4- Colorado Springs-> drive past Pikes Peak view-> Garden of The Gods, Cave of the winds, Seven Falls.
drive through the Pikes Peak HWY, twin lakes-> take the US 24 to Aspen touching the Independence Pass. Take the bus from Highlands national park (free parking) to Maroon Creek Valley to see marron bells.

back to car and Continue drive onto Salt Lake City, Utah for o/n stay.

Day 5- Drive thru the lower part of Great Salt Lake- the largest endoheric lake in the western hemisphere and 4th largest terminal lake in the world. Drive thru Nevada desert. o/n halt in Reno.

Day 6- Reno,NV -> Sunnyvale , CA