Ultimate Road Trip - FAIL

vraiblonde

vraiblonde

Board Mommy
PREMO Member
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My problem with these "ultimate road trip" maps is that they don't really hit the stuff you want to (should) see. Nebraska, for instance - he takes you through the northeastern corner where there is nothing (seriously, you can't even find a gas station up there), totally ignoring Minden, Lincoln, and Omaha, which are the places you'd actually be interested in. If you're rolling through Texas, the Alamo isn't going to be the #1 must-see on your list. Of all the cool places to visit in Kansas, he only has you stopping at a museum in Leavenworth. And there is no point in driving to New Orleans if you're not even going to go over the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway.

FAIL!!!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ius-computes-the-ultimate-american-road-trip/

Interactive map, so you can actually see what you're missing:

http://rhiever.github.io/optimal-roadtrip-usa/major-landmarks.html

So! Since we forum members are from all over the place and many of us are quite well-traveled, let's make a REAL ultimate road trip. Choose your state and tell everyone what they have to see on their cross-country road trip.
 
b23hqb

b23hqb

Well-Known Member
PREMO Member
Grew up in Oklahoma, even though I have lived in Fl for the last 40 years, so what to see in OK:

Route 66
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Red River
Fort Sill
Oklahoma City:

National Memorial (Alfred Murrah Building bombing)
Bricktown
National Cowboy % Western Heritage Museum
Anything Will Rogers

Oil wells
Tulsa
 
blacklabman

blacklabman

Well-Known Member
b23hqb said:
Grew up in Oklahoma, even though I have lived in Fl for the last 40 years, so what to see in OK:

Route 66
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Red River
Fort Sill
Oklahoma City:

National Memorial (Alfred Murrah Building bombing)
Bricktown
National Cowboy % Western Heritage Museum
Anything Will Rogers

Oil wells
Tulsa
Click to expand...

Is that oil well on the capitol grounds still pumping?
 
Merlin99

Merlin99

Visualize whirled peas
PREMO Member
My Michigan list

Tahquamenon falls

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Sleeping Bear national lakeshore

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Greenfield Village / Henry Ford museum

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Mackinack Island "The Grand Hotel"

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Bronners Christmas store
Frankenmuth "little Bavaria"

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GURPS

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Right here in DC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams_Memorial_(Saint-Gaudens)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Octagon_House

Au Pied de Cochon - eat where Vitaly Yurchenko had his last meal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_E._Surratt_Boarding_House

Civil War Battle Fields in a couple hrs drive

Smithsonian Museums - Air and Space, National Gallery, Smithsonian Castle [1876 Exhibition], National Museum of Natural History, National Museum of American History

this might help locate the 'out of the way' stuff: On this Spot
 
Larry Gude

Larry Gude

Strung Out
This is a road trip;


Acquire fabulous traveling companion replete with complimentary skill set and personality and so forth, ie, someone you just enjoy being with. A lot.

Get a months time.

Load up RV, preferable a 27-31 foot class C because they are a decent compromise between capacity and ability to get into smaller places than a full on bus or pulling a trailer and your stuff is ALWAYS with you.

Leave.

Stop where you please when you please.

Next morning, where do you want to go today?

Stop where you please when you please.




I am of the view that it is NOT the destination. It is the journey.
 
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