1st Cross Country Trip..thoughts?
I'm still working on our agenda for our 1st cross country trip. I really narrowed down the trip a bit so we aren't rushing around too much. We are driving from NY with the hope to get out west in a fe...
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Speaking only from experience, the leg from Indiana to Custer is closer to 20 hours rather than 14. Why? You are already exhausted from the previous day's drive. Your stops along the way get longer and more frequent. You get so tired of sitting in the car you just want to scream (okay, the passengers do - the driver at least has something to do).
Another thing you might consider is that, if you leave at 6AM and you drive 700 miles and you manage to make it in 14 hours, you are still arriving at the campground at 8PM. Or later. From experience, arriving at an unfamiliar campground at night doesn't make for a pleasant experience. On the road from Indiana to Custer, we stayed overnight at a rest area so we could arrive at Custer in the morning. We stayed in Wapiti Campground outside Yellowstone so we could get into our Yellowstone campground in the morning. Had we not stopped the night before, we would have arrived at both campground around 10PM. We never would have gotten into our Custer site in the dark.
Your trip sounds wonderful. I would just caution you about real world drive times vs. Google Maps.
Another thing you might consider is that, if you leave at 6AM and you drive 700 miles and you manage to make it in 14 hours, you are still arriving at the campground at 8PM. Or later. From experience, arriving at an unfamiliar campground at night doesn't make for a pleasant experience. On the road from Indiana to Custer, we stayed overnight at a rest area so we could arrive at Custer in the morning. We stayed in Wapiti Campground outside Yellowstone so we could get into our Yellowstone campground in the morning. Had we not stopped the night before, we would have arrived at both campground around 10PM. We never would have gotten into our Custer site in the dark.
Your trip sounds wonderful. I would just caution you about real world drive times vs. Google Maps.
