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CaesarB
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Apr 19, 2018

Looking for a Nice Week to 10 Day Road Trip

I have been camping for many years but I just bought a brand new 2018 F-150 and new Gulfstream travel trailer. I live in Northeast Pennsylvania and I’m looking for a good road trip route with good scenery and cool stops along the way. I am wondering if anyone has any recommendations for a week to 10 day road trip with the camper, leaving out on Northeast PA.
  • kerrlakeRoo wrote:
    Assateague Island on the Md/Va line for two nights, wild horses and Sika Deer in the campground, then down across the Ches Bay bridge tunnel and into Va. Beach, First Landing State Park for a couple of nights, Virginia Marine Science center, and go to Downtown Norfolk to tour the WWII Battleship Wisconsin, and next door at harborside you will have some different shopping and food options available. Then on to Nags Head NC to see the Wright Bros Memorial and try your hand at hang gliding. Back to the North to Chesapeake Va to catch I-64 west to Williamsburg for a couple of nights touring the recreated colonial village. Before heading back up to the frozen tundra.

    Nice itinerary
  • You could comfortable drive 1000 miles one way, driving 200 miles a day for a total of 2000 miles over 10 days. From Scranton, PA, you could travel that distance easily, if you drove only 4 hours every day at 50 mph. You could travel from Scranton, PA to Kansans City, Iowa. Or to West Palm Beach, Florida. Or anywhere North East including all of Maine and a BIG chunk of Canada. Or as far as Warroad, Wisconsin (and all of Canada North of that too!)

    I suggest, pick any spot East of Kansas City, Kansas and throw a dart at it. Let that be your destination point! Divide that distance by 5 (5 days driving there, and 5 days driving back). Study the maps and take a slightly different route back home. Drive, spend the night at a KOA, easy in, easy out. Explore the area where ever you park for the night. Next morning, move on, explore another State Park, another attraction, another town or city 200 miles or so farther down the road.

    If you are like me, the real fun is in the driving. I personally enjoy the driving, towing, and navigating, maybe even more than the actual destination.

    Good luck, and enjoy! Have the trip of a life time!
  • Assateague Island on the Md/Va line for two nights, wild horses and Sika Deer in the campground, then down across the Ches Bay bridge tunnel and into Va. Beach, First Landing State Park for a couple of nights, Virginia Marine Science center, and go to Downtown Norfolk to tour the WWII Battleship Wisconsin, and next door at harborside you will have some different shopping and food options available. Then on to Nags Head NC to see the Wright Bros Memorial and try your hand at hang gliding. Back to the North to Chesapeake Va to catch I-64 west to Williamsburg for a couple of nights touring the recreated colonial village. Before heading back up to the frozen tundra.