Bucket List Trip

Mammoth caves, the corvette museum, Lincolns log cabin
are all in Kentucky

visit Bardstown and the outdoor showing of the Steven Foster story

just inside Indiana you can visit, Squire Boone Caverns, and the old homestead of Daniel Boones brother "Squire Boone"

a do NOT miss in Indiana is "Springmill State Pk"
complete restored pioneer village, with working water powered Grist Mill
many original buildings, with period furnishings, and complete history of the settlement
upper two floors of grist mill contain a museum , nice large campground in park with electric hookup
we were there summer of 2012, camping was $22 night

Although we live in the Northeast corner of metro Atlanta area, the traffic really sucks. You may want to rethink going to the sights listed by another poster, post #3 Bob Shaw.

Ideally, if you can take the time, try to have at least 2 or 3 days minimum, ideally longer downtown between 200+ mile driving days, so you don't find it all gets too much. For convenience we enjoyed camping at the Kentucky Horse Park, and at night watching the fire flies, it was an unreal experience for us, wondering at first what all these lights were flickering around, lovely display they did for us uneducated at the time peeps. Kentucky is one of our favourite states we will return to again one day but for longer and slower.

Also if you are going to be in Texas and of course depending how long a trip you have planned, what about Big Bend NP? Also the Caverns of Sonora (Roadslesstraveled did a beautiful report on that).

We have traveled in our 24 foot Class C RV from California to the East Coast and Kentucky a couple of times. Once through the Southern U.S. and once through the Central U.S. ... about 9000 miles on the first trip and 7000 miles on the second trip.

For specific reasons we had no control over, both trips were during July/August/September .... and that was the only downside of the two trips .... the extreme heat-humidity mix that time if the year in those parts of the country. I suggest that your RV not only have excellent air conditioning for both hookup and drycamp situations, but also a good dehumidifer in it - to be on the safe side comfort-wise. We had to run the air conditioning with the built-in generator almost all night once in order to be able to sleep.

Good luck on your trip - you'll especially love Death Valley and other Southwest areas if you can keep cool enough that time of the year. We're planning on another trip this Augus/September/October to the East Coast - but through the Northern U.S. this time.

- meteor crater in Arizona
- Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial in OK City

How much time are you allotting for this trip? What time of year will it start? To begin with, Death Valley is very hot by May. Also, the southern states will be very hot and humid.

This might be a good trip to begin in November - January and go through the winter for the southern states.

If you get near Ft Benning Ga take in a training jump or two at the ft ben sch for boys. You will be astounded at a couple hundred young men falling out of the sky.

If you wish to come to Ohio The AF Museum is at Dayton, very interesting has a presidential plane and many other planes of all wars and experiments. Well worth a 200 mile trip north of Ky.

Mississippi, The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War is what I consider the defeat of the south that cost them the war. No commerce to supply south could come down river.

Lookout Mountain, Tn Chattanooga was also a major battle. For southern victories you'll have to travel to Va but it would be worth the trip. Many many old houses where both sides would take up Hdqs and run their war from.
In Ky the Louisville bat company is a don't miss. Lexington horse farms are must see. Mammoth cave is must see. Corvette factory in Bowling Green if you like them.

Buster52 wrote:
I am planning a trip for next year or the year after that will take my from Central, CA to South central , KY. This is a bucket list trip for my wife and I. We have some spots we want to hit on the trip. Death Valley, Lost Wages, NV, Grand Hole in the Ground, to southern TX, New Orleans, then those places where the Northerners attacked the Southerners. Is there places along this route we should think about seeing? I am planning on driving only about 200 miles a day and stopping for a day or two along the way. Places like the Alamo, Indian dwellings, air shows, points of historical meanings. All suggestions would be appreciated.

If you're coming that far, why not stop in Atlanta and see the Cyclorama, which depicts the battle and burning of Atlanta in the war of northern aggression, as it's known around here? We also have the Kennesaw Mountain battle field. Gettysburg PA and Colonial Williamsburg VA are also great historical stops.

I would add Carlsbad caverns and the Guadeloupe mountains on that route.