Great advice, we haven't yet planned our route although it will probably be I-80 across Nebraska. We'll probably leave out late Friday afternoon, get a few hours up the road for a bit of a head start, then spend Saturday making hay until we hit Wyoming. That way on Sunday we can take our time getting to our destination. Maybe stop off in Guernsey to see the Oregon trail wagon ruts and signature cliff, or detour to Little Bighorn and drop into West Yellowstone from the north or come in from the south through Jackson and past the Tetons. The final route will be one of the last things we decide on and even then it could be subject to change on a whim. Sometimes it's the things that you weren't expecting to see that are the most memorable. We went out west a few years ago. My wife had never even heard of Mesa Verde national park. She still talks about it today.
