Family Vacation Out West

brookeknight wrote:
All of this is helpful, opinions on driving pretty quickly out there (our family doesnt mind a few days of long hours of driving and overnight stays at rest stops, etc if it means more time in the parks and site seeing), with our destinations including Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, and Glacier NP? Maybe do the grand canyon and go to California for Yosemite and Redwoods a different year.

I posted my last before I saw this. Four weeks is not a long time to see every attraction between here and Florida. I don't know why people seem to focus on that. You state you want to go "Out West." Assuming that is your goal nothing between here (I'm out West) and Florida matters. You can see that on other trips.

I'll describe a trip to you I did a couple of years ago and I was the only driver, my wife doesn't drive the motorhome. We left Central California on Thursday after work. First day I drove up to Sacramento and then headed East on I-80. We got just past Reno the first day and spent the night in a Walmart parking lot. Got up early the next morning and I drove 700 miles and spent the night in Wyoming. 700 more miles the next day and spent the night in Iowa. Then on Sunday we only had to do about 300 miles and that got us to Oshkosh, Wisconsin. So with one driver I did over 2200 miles with two full days driving and two part days.

We spent about four days at the big Air Show in Oshkosh. Then we took our time getting home and came over the northern route and spent some a day at the Mall of America. Then we made stops at the biker Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. Then we worked our way over to Yellowstone and spent a few days in that area. Then I did a couple of long days to get back home. All that done in two weeks.