From Apex NC to the Grand Canyon....
My wife and I are celebrating 20 years next May. We've been looking at cruises and other vacation getaways. She came up with the idea of driving the TT out to the Grand Canyon. We both agreed it wo...
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From where you are, figure at least four days each way. Two or three days there, maybe, and an extra half day for each place you find interesting along the way (and there are many, a big part of it is along old Route 66, an attraction in its own right). Figure two weeks for a relaxed pace, three weeks would be better. Most of the trip will be I-40, a lot to see along the way, making different stops on the way back than you did on the way there. Travel planning software helps me sort out a schedule for something like this.
A cruise is about being pampered, if that's what you want, and that pampered experience gets even better as you upgrade to more premium lines (Seabourne, Seven Seas, Crystal, maybe Celebity) and smaller ships, which tend to do 14-21 day cruises with many exotic ports (what my late wife preferred to do). Or you can go to the bigger ships on the mass-market lines like Carnival, Princess, RCI for a floating mini-Las Vegas experience, though it is more cost effective to simply fly to Las Vegas and experience the real thing.
For the Grand Canyon or Las Vegas, you don't need a passport.
Consider river cruises too, could be Danube, Rhine, Ohio, Mississippi, Yangtze. Done two of those, have my third scheduled, and we have a bunch of happy Ohio River cruisers from our travel club just arrived home excited about what they've done.
It really just depends on what you want to experience, but for a pleasant experience on the GC trip, I would figure two weeks minimum.
A cruise is about being pampered, if that's what you want, and that pampered experience gets even better as you upgrade to more premium lines (Seabourne, Seven Seas, Crystal, maybe Celebity) and smaller ships, which tend to do 14-21 day cruises with many exotic ports (what my late wife preferred to do). Or you can go to the bigger ships on the mass-market lines like Carnival, Princess, RCI for a floating mini-Las Vegas experience, though it is more cost effective to simply fly to Las Vegas and experience the real thing.
For the Grand Canyon or Las Vegas, you don't need a passport.
Consider river cruises too, could be Danube, Rhine, Ohio, Mississippi, Yangtze. Done two of those, have my third scheduled, and we have a bunch of happy Ohio River cruisers from our travel club just arrived home excited about what they've done.
It really just depends on what you want to experience, but for a pleasant experience on the GC trip, I would figure two weeks minimum.
