theoldwizard1 wrote:
Not trying to "slam" anybody, but pick your destinations in the central part of the US. Mt Rushmore, the Black Hills and what ever else interests you. The rest is thousands of mile of corn or wheat !
I disagree with the old wizard or is the buzzard. There are lots of things to see, in June we spent a month traveling Iowa, Neb, Utah, Wyoming and South Dakota. We followed parts of the Oregon Trail and parts of the Lewis and Clark, saw the Flaming Gorge in Utah, Dinosaur National Park, Trinity Hill in Sioux Falls and and an old steamboat that traversed the Missouri and Mississippi, went to the Museum of Art of Nebraska in Kearny NE, went up Windlass hill and stayed under Chimney Rock, stopped in Scotts Bluff, saw fossils in Agate Fossils NM, watched buffalo at Ft Robinson and rode a jeep up the bluffs, had steak under the bluffs and went to a rodeo, saw wagon wheel ruts near Guernsey WY, photographed graffiti from the 1850's, saw one of only two natural bridges,saw a Foucault Pendulum and looked for wild horses near Rock Springs WY,and stopped at Story Land in Aberdeen SD. We've seen Billy Clocks in Iowa, battleships made of matchsticks near Grundy. Walked in tulips in Pella, gone through John Deeres museum, looked at old cars, old tractors, looked at old guns at some of the forts.
The thing is you need to search for these places. Use tripadvisor, or the state tourist sites for ideas. Pick a destination, and find out what is in between. Get off interstate, go through the small towns. For us it is not what we are going to see, but what we will miss. Often when comparing notes with friends they say, Oh you should have seen.... or really we missed that.
