These last few posts about traffic in the NE just go to reinforce my contention that you're trying to do to much in four weeks coming all the way from CA. Just putting a route together covering all the places you're want to visit adds up to 8000 miles. That's averaging 300 miles a day
every day for the whole trip! :E That's about six hours of driving with gas, lunch and potty stops. Plan another hour setting up and breaking down camp and another hour for meals and you're down to three or four hours a day at most that you'll have for sightseeing. Mostly, you'll do nothing but spend hours and days in your vehicle.
Right now, I'm planning a three week trip to the same area. We will fly right into DC, so we'll save well over a week of driving to and from CO right there. But even with three weeks, I'm having a tough time seeing just the few places we want to go. So we're concentrating on only four areas: DC, Williamsburg, Boston, and Acadia. We'll be in a car (tent camping this time) so can easily travel faster and more miles per day when needed, and still we have to miss a lot of stuff. It takes quite some time to get around with all the traffic in these areas.
If you read through these responses and those in your previous question (1/30/15) in the Routes and Roads section, you'll see a lot of people are making similar comments, most of whom have driven cross country and know of what they speak. So please reconsider this "vacation". Either fly out and rent a car or take six weeks to do something other than look at the windshield of your vehicle. Your kids deserve no less and will thank you for it.
Ken & Allison
2 Camping Cats (1 diabetic)
1996 4Runner, TRD Supercharger, Edelbrock headers
2007 Fleetwood Arcadia, Honda EU2000i
4 mountain bikes, 1 canoe, 4 tents, 8 sleeping bags, 2 backpacks
(You get the idea!)
