I think you can do it---I took my youngest when she was 10. Left Baltimore and zig-zagged out to Mt Hood and skied on the glacier end of August. Headed South and got as far as Nogales Mexico then headed east. We were in a class B and planned as we went and were gone over a month, coast to coast and border to border. She is 44 now and I am 79 and we know that so many of the places we visited and stayed in are gone or off limits now. To many never get to see this country. DW and I are planning another trip out West this fall to see how much it has changed. Been all over the world, want to look at the US once more.