blw2
Well-known member
Doing an insane trip trying to squeeze in 6 weeks+ worth into 3 weeks....
travelling with Kids, and DW likes to find places to stop such as museums, Zoo's, etc... along the way
My ideal light easy day is off the road by noon or 3PM depending, at some point of interest, not too far from a place to overnight....or if still early maybe drive another hour or two
I know we'll be doing a lot of long driving days, hoping to overnight at walmarts and such....
Probably 4 to 5 days pushing to get out to NM, but still stopping to see and play just a bit to break it up
then we can slow down and see what we can see....
My hope is to mix in the long and easy drive days, with some zero or near-zero days mixed in here and there. hopefully finding a CG every 3 nights or so to dump.
Totally winging it..... but I think as long as we find fun along the way and get to the canyon and back, we're pretty much happy skipping any of it....
Other than "you're crazy", which I already know.... any comments?
I know little about these places so I'm trying to get a better feel for where we might want to do a zero mile day or two, or what we should just skip...
I'm kinda thinking Santa Fe might be a zero mile day or nearly so, as an example. I understand it's a nice little shops and restaurants kind of tourist friendly place. DW likes that.
We did Sedona before and loved it, but plan on skipping it this time...just not enough time
tentative route:
over night perhaps at
Pensacola (Naval Aviation Museum),
Jackson or Vicksburg,
Dallas,
Amarillo
Albuquerque
maybe do something around ABQ...maybe the balloon museum?
maybe petrified forest?,
maybe meteor crater?
prob need another stop between ABQ and the canyon, depending on sight seeing..... Flagstaff maybe?
South Rim of the Canyon
Then this is where I'm even more tentative....
after a day or so at the South Rim, maybe swing around up to the North Rim
Then I'm thinking about heading up to Page, AZ
Then maybe Monument Valley...but I'm not sure it's really worth the detour...looping around to Mexican Hat and around to the 4-corners area. Looks like we'd be going backwards through monument valley....so does it make more sense to head direct to 4-corners and skip it?
Mesa Verda
Durango CO
then back down to Santa Fe
then over to OK City
& I-40 to Memphis
Then I-20 to I-65 back down
travelling with Kids, and DW likes to find places to stop such as museums, Zoo's, etc... along the way
My ideal light easy day is off the road by noon or 3PM depending, at some point of interest, not too far from a place to overnight....or if still early maybe drive another hour or two
I know we'll be doing a lot of long driving days, hoping to overnight at walmarts and such....
Probably 4 to 5 days pushing to get out to NM, but still stopping to see and play just a bit to break it up
then we can slow down and see what we can see....
My hope is to mix in the long and easy drive days, with some zero or near-zero days mixed in here and there. hopefully finding a CG every 3 nights or so to dump.
Totally winging it..... but I think as long as we find fun along the way and get to the canyon and back, we're pretty much happy skipping any of it....
Other than "you're crazy", which I already know.... any comments?
I know little about these places so I'm trying to get a better feel for where we might want to do a zero mile day or two, or what we should just skip...
I'm kinda thinking Santa Fe might be a zero mile day or nearly so, as an example. I understand it's a nice little shops and restaurants kind of tourist friendly place. DW likes that.
We did Sedona before and loved it, but plan on skipping it this time...just not enough time
tentative route:
over night perhaps at
Pensacola (Naval Aviation Museum),
Jackson or Vicksburg,
Dallas,
Amarillo
Albuquerque
maybe do something around ABQ...maybe the balloon museum?
maybe petrified forest?,
maybe meteor crater?
prob need another stop between ABQ and the canyon, depending on sight seeing..... Flagstaff maybe?
South Rim of the Canyon
Then this is where I'm even more tentative....
after a day or so at the South Rim, maybe swing around up to the North Rim
Then I'm thinking about heading up to Page, AZ
Then maybe Monument Valley...but I'm not sure it's really worth the detour...looping around to Mexican Hat and around to the 4-corners area. Looks like we'd be going backwards through monument valley....so does it make more sense to head direct to 4-corners and skip it?
Mesa Verda
Durango CO
then back down to Santa Fe
then over to OK City
& I-40 to Memphis
Then I-20 to I-65 back down