Best way to travel east coast?
We are planning a trip to see the east coast. We found that traveling the coast through Washington and Oregon it worked better to travel from north to south, as it is safer to stop at view sites and n...
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We did that in 2011, I 10 from CA all the way to FL, down the panhandle then cut across and went up the coast, ending up in Niagra Falls. We did not go further east than NY. We stopped in all the usual places Savannah, Charleston, Myrtle Beach, then inland to the mountains of NC (good roads) & the Outer Banks, Gettysburg, Poconos, Washington DC then inland to Niagra Falls. I don't know that it would make any difference which way you travel. The roads were fine until we got on the PA turnpike (I 476), it was far worse than any road in CA. I would strongly avoid that. We traveled some interstates, some 2 lane highways. We used Passport America mostly and just worked around their restrictions. In Gettysburg, we stayed for $25 when the regular cost was $50 (during the week). Campground costs are higher in the east. We traveled slowly, took 6 months and it cost $20k. We visited many of the forts that were built to defend the US from the British or used in the Civil War and I learned a lot that I had forgotten or never knew about that era.
