If you are too busy to do some planning right now, I have a couple of suggestions.
First, sit down for an hour with your DH and go to the Good Sam Website and hit "Plan A Trip-Trip Planner". Set your "Distance" range to say 60 miles and set your route to I-94 to I-25 to I-10 to I-15 to I-90 and home. That will get you a big loop round-trip from ND and back home. Then click on "Things To Do" and select a topic of interest, say "The Great Outdoors." Then click on a few sights that you don't want to miss, like national parks. You will be surprised at how quickly you fill up the 25-stop limit on the program. That's just a way to get you started on a simple plan.
Second, I suggest that, if national parks and monuments are of interest, you start in the southeast with Carlsbad Caverns and Guadalupe Mountains National Parks and work your way west. Then you can hit White Sands NM, the new Organ Mountains NM, Ft. Bowie NHS, Saguaro NP, Tumacacori NHS, Pueblo Grande Archeological Site, Hoover Dam and its new bridge, etc., while you are down south. Then, on your way home in warmer weather, you can take in Zion-Cedar Breaks-Bryce Canyon NPs and, if you wanted to get farther off I-15, perhaps Capital Reef-Arches-Canyonlands NPs, Dinosaur NM, and Flaming Gorge NRA. How many you actually stop at is just a function of how long you have for the trip and how often you want to move.
We found that, once you get there, your plans will undoubtedly change because you have no deadlines. And there is always next year!
