Please Help Plan My Cross-Country Trip
Hi everyone, I am planning a trip for my family from Detroit, MI to the Fresno, CA area. This is a long-range plan; we are not going to take the trip until around June 2015. I am trying to do as ...
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I'll defer to others on specific sites and roads, but offer one piece of advice.
I'd schedule 2-3 night stays to break up every long day on the road if possible, even if it means skipping some sites or extending the vacation by another week somehow (if at all possible). In a pinch, one or two back-to-back long travel days could be pulled off, but I'd have to have a three night stay in one place to recover.
We just did a trip like this:
Day 1: 6 hour drive to campsite.
Camp three nights
Day 4: 2.5 hour drive
Camp two nights
Day 6: 6 hour drive
Camp three nights (took two different 2-hour one-way day trips without camper)
Day 9: 5.5 hour drive
Camp one night
Day 10: 2 hour drive home
So only one stop-and-go. It was very relaxing and the kids handled it very well. We got to see a ton of stuff. The day trips without the camper seemed like much easier days even though there was still a lot of time in the car.
I'd schedule 2-3 night stays to break up every long day on the road if possible, even if it means skipping some sites or extending the vacation by another week somehow (if at all possible). In a pinch, one or two back-to-back long travel days could be pulled off, but I'd have to have a three night stay in one place to recover.
We just did a trip like this:
Day 1: 6 hour drive to campsite.
Camp three nights
Day 4: 2.5 hour drive
Camp two nights
Day 6: 6 hour drive
Camp three nights (took two different 2-hour one-way day trips without camper)
Day 9: 5.5 hour drive
Camp one night
Day 10: 2 hour drive home
So only one stop-and-go. It was very relaxing and the kids handled it very well. We got to see a ton of stuff. The day trips without the camper seemed like much easier days even though there was still a lot of time in the car.
