We have plans to spend half a year in USA and half a year in UK/Europe.
We have travelled to TN and CA before in June-August so we know what the weather was like there then but wanted to run our travel plans past you all to see if we can improve.
We are 2 adults (42 and 38) and 3 kids (aged 15, 13 and 10 at time of travel). We homeschool so we do want to go to "educational" places and the kids have always wanted to do Disneyland and/or Disneyworld so history and fun and nature are our goals. The parts of Canada we want to see are Ontario, Quebec through to PEI so 2-4 weeks would be fine to tweek our plans to what suits best.
The parts of the States we want to see for sure are: Cali (3-4 weeks with friends, Disney etc...), Arizona, possibly Nevada. SD (Little House books), MN (friends and Little House books), Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania (Amish), maybe TN to retrace some of our last visit now that the kids are old enough to remember, Virginia (history), DC (10-14 days), florida (2 weeks)
We land in LA in August 2015 and fly out in February 2016. Our travel route looks like this at the moment:
Fly to SD (to obtain a drivers licence and register our purchased RV), from there we are going to MN then either into Canada for a month or across to Michigan to enter Canada for 2-3 weeks instead.
so it would look like:
August: LA, SD, MN
September: Canada (or MN, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan then Canada)
October and November: NE USA down to Florida by start if December paying special attention Penn, DC and Virginia.
December/January: Florida then across towards California.
January/February: California
questions are:
if we wanted to do Disneyland, Grand canyon, Redwoods forest etc... would we be best to do at start or finish because of weather?
we could possibly finish in Florida or at least SE USA and fly onto UK from there, what would work best for the autumn/winter season?
Are the months we have indicated suitable for RV travel (I am trying to work best with the Autumn/winter weather by travelling south in winter but can you think of a better way of doing it keeping in mind we do need to travel at that time of year?
we are eligible for a 6 month visa so that's fine. we know buying an RV would be complicated so we are hoping to avoid it by doing a buy back program or a cheap long term rental (not that they exist) and we will be travelling in an RV that comfortably fits us all, maybe a C class 27-30 foot so everyone has their own space.
Anything else you think might be helpful is always appreciated!!
We have travelled to TN and CA before in June-August so we know what the weather was like there then but wanted to run our travel plans past you all to see if we can improve.
We are 2 adults (42 and 38) and 3 kids (aged 15, 13 and 10 at time of travel). We homeschool so we do want to go to "educational" places and the kids have always wanted to do Disneyland and/or Disneyworld so history and fun and nature are our goals. The parts of Canada we want to see are Ontario, Quebec through to PEI so 2-4 weeks would be fine to tweek our plans to what suits best.
The parts of the States we want to see for sure are: Cali (3-4 weeks with friends, Disney etc...), Arizona, possibly Nevada. SD (Little House books), MN (friends and Little House books), Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania (Amish), maybe TN to retrace some of our last visit now that the kids are old enough to remember, Virginia (history), DC (10-14 days), florida (2 weeks)
We land in LA in August 2015 and fly out in February 2016. Our travel route looks like this at the moment:
Fly to SD (to obtain a drivers licence and register our purchased RV), from there we are going to MN then either into Canada for a month or across to Michigan to enter Canada for 2-3 weeks instead.
so it would look like:
August: LA, SD, MN
September: Canada (or MN, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan then Canada)
October and November: NE USA down to Florida by start if December paying special attention Penn, DC and Virginia.
December/January: Florida then across towards California.
January/February: California
questions are:
if we wanted to do Disneyland, Grand canyon, Redwoods forest etc... would we be best to do at start or finish because of weather?
we could possibly finish in Florida or at least SE USA and fly onto UK from there, what would work best for the autumn/winter season?
Are the months we have indicated suitable for RV travel (I am trying to work best with the Autumn/winter weather by travelling south in winter but can you think of a better way of doing it keeping in mind we do need to travel at that time of year?
we are eligible for a 6 month visa so that's fine. we know buying an RV would be complicated so we are hoping to avoid it by doing a buy back program or a cheap long term rental (not that they exist) and we will be travelling in an RV that comfortably fits us all, maybe a C class 27-30 foot so everyone has their own space.
Anything else you think might be helpful is always appreciated!!