u.s trip help

[racingsnake]

planning a trip to u.s sometime next year but not decided on where to go??
so help from anyone here as you'll know best
me the wife +2 kids we don't wanna do theme parks too much,, love driving
suggestions please!!!!!
this is our first trip in like 5 years.

[daniel]

how long is your trip going to be? do you want to see cities, or spend time seeing all the incredible geographical things? do you have a budget?

[george graves]

Can you narrow it down between west and east coast - or are you up for both?

[daniel]

i was thinking a big long road trip across the country bouncing around to different landmarks, but depending on the age of the kids, that could be hell.

[Massive Lee]

Los Angeles. Death Valley. Las Vegas. Grand Canyon. Monument Valley. Santa Fe. Tucson's Pima aero museum. Some more desert and South West small towns. Bring a few CDs of Loyd Cole, Rye Cooder and early Dire Straight with you.

http://www.pimaair.org/

[hugh jass]

definitely do the southwest. beautiful scenery, no crowds, lots of great roads. you could go to vegas or LA if you really wanted to.

[whiltebeitel]

The North East has plenty of historical stuff and natural features to see. I would suggest going there if you can't spend 2+ weeks touring the farther reaches, seeing as you are in the UK, and will want to hop off the plane as soon as you see land.

[TexasTerp]

New York, DC, Texas Hill Country (Austin and San Antonio), Tuscon, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Tahoe, The Carolinas. Plenty of great places to go!

[racingsnake]

how long is your trip going to be? do you want to see cities, or spend time seeing all the incredible geographical things? do you have a budget?

not including return flights will have budget of approx $5000 and hopefully 3+weeks kids 6 and 9 and love being on the road
as you know the uk is a small place but i still often rack up 25+ thousand mile easily a year and they always come to rally events and are good as gold

[racingsnake]

Los Angeles. Death Valley. Las Vegas. Grand Canyon. Monument Valley. Santa Fe. Tucson's Pima aero museum. Some more desert and South West small towns. Bring a few CDs of Loyd Cole, Rye Cooder and early Dire Straight with you.

http://www.pimaair.org/

i don't go anywhere without my dire straights and bruce springteen and must be loud

[racingsnake]

my bro-in-law has friends in lake havasu (think thats spelt right ) so may pay a visit to them not sure though

[daniel]

not including return flights will have budget of approx $5000 and hopefully 3+weeks kids 6 and 9 and love being on the road
as you know the uk is a small place but i still often rack up 25+ thousand mile easily a year and they always come to rally events and are good as gold

cool. well as most have said, the western US is basically a roadtrip playground. south dakota has the badlands, colorado has rocky mountain national park, utah has several national parks, wyoming has yellowstone and the grand tetons, the coasts of california and oregon are absolutely stunning. pretty much every state has something worth seeing (don't forget the grand canyon in arizona). the diversity inherent in the geographical formations in the western US is incredible- you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere else like it.

wherever you go, just make sure you stay on the right side of the road! :p

[hye d]

Fly in to Vegas, drive to Hoover dam, zion, brice, grand canyon north rim, and than fly in to yellowstone .

[racingsnake]

on the right

driven on the right in spain and france never had any probs but only in a right hand hand drive only driven left hand drive here :D

[mrsleeve]

the big national parks, Yellowstone,Grand teton, devils tower WY, Yosemite and the red woods CA, Glacier Park MT, Grand Canyon AZ, The bad lands and black hills SD, etc..