Planning The Route

The Florida Everglades

The Grand Canyon

Planning the route for our 30 day trip involved a lot of footwork. We started of with an internet search for websites that contained road trip routes. After much research, we found a fairly good website with routes throughout the US on the old two lane highways. You can get info about off he main drag routes, things to see, places to eat, and activities that are a must. Check it out.

Once we got the Road Trip USA book that goes along with the website, we decided that we were going to change our route by personalizing it in order to make it more magical for us. While researching this new magical route, we found a road book that has a list of every business one might need for EVERY exit off of ANY interstate in the US. If you ever decide to travel the US for any road trip, you need to get this guide. I forgot the name, but I will add it later.

Carl and I like to plan our trip in legs. Our first route, we planned for a Northern venture through Mt Rushmore over to Chicago, Niagara Falls, and then Boston. However, that route was deleted from the plan the moment we discovered that our path would cross Mt Rushmore during the heart of Sturgis 2009. We don't really care to be in the middle of hundreds of thousands of motorcycles...

This past weekend, Carl and I finally had to time to sit down and re route our trip. The first thirteen days we will go through SLC, UT, The Grand Canyon, Dallas, TX, New Orelans, LA... drive along the gulf coast line to Florida then down to the Everglades and over to Miami. From there we drive north along the Eastern Seaboard toward Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and then Washington DC. I'll post a map of the route and where we'll be staying once it is finalized.

We'll have 17 more days to go following our arrival in Washington DC.

Let the planning continue....