Hi all,
Before everyone shouts out a resounding
"NO!", let me explain.
My girlfriend and I (both from Sydney, Australia) are doing a 5 week US trip in Sept-Oct. Starting in NY, then planning to drive to Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, then doing the West Coast (San Diego, LA, San Fran, Yosemite etc...). Then onto Honolulu for a relaxing last few nights. NY and HNL are planned, but the rest is fairly flexible.
It's always been a dream of mine to drive right across the US, and while I'd like to do a huge 2 month trip, stopping everywhere and seeing everything, it's just not feasible right now. So instead, I figured we'd do the trip, but cut out the sight-seeing, and stay out of major cities (where possible). The road trip will be purely an "A to B" trip, and nothing more. I actually really like the mid-west (have a client in Kansas City I've visited twice now), so I'd be keen to see more of it.
Now as for the drive itself - here in Australia I do an annual road trip with my dad, usually covering anywhere up to 4,000km in 4 days. Our last one was 2,454mi in 4 days, including quite a bit of sight-seeing. The trip before that was ~1,860mi in 3 days. So as you can see, I love a bit of highway driving.
Having only ever driven around Kansas City and LA though, I'm not really sure how good/fast the roads for the majority of my planned route.
(The planned route, by the way, will probably be something like this:
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=d&h...=UTF8&z=5&om=1)
Is just under 500mi/day for 5 days, split between two drivers feasible between NY and Grand Canyon? As I said - I love to drive long distances, but have never done this drive before. We don't have anywhere specifically we want to visit on the trip...so we'll probably just stop at a small town when we get tired.
Ideally, we'd like to do the following:
Leave NY Friday morning
Drive Friday
Drive Saturday
Drive Sunday
Drive Monday
Drive Tuesday
Arrive Grand Canyon Tuesday night
Sight-see Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam Wednesday
Leave Grand Canyon Wednesday evening, arrive in Las Vegas
very late Wednesday night.
(I realise this plan may make me look like a maniac. I can deal with that.
)
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
- Febs.