02-14-2016, 06:56 AM
Last October we did a loop to New Orleans and back since the wife had a conference in Austin TX for several days. On that trip we specifically did every other day of driving -- drive somewhere; stop overnight; next day of sight-seeing in that location (or a short distance) and second night; and then repeat...
On the off-driving days we visited Tuzigoot National Monument; Out of Africa Wildlife Park; Montezuma Castle National Monument and Well; Carlsbad Caverns; Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden; French Quarter; Parkway Bakery and Tavern (gotta get that Po'boy); Audubon Zoo; San Antonio River Walk; The Alamo; Austin Bat Bridge multiple times while in Austin for the conference; basically out and back on I-10. No family that trip, just friends in Dallas and New Orleans.
That was about 8-9 hours for each driving day but it would take forever to do that for a cross-country trip. It's about 100 hours total round-trip driving time and wouldn't allow time for multiple days in the east coast destinations; we're looking at a 4-week vacation plus weekends on the two ends to extend it (longest off-work allowed)... This trip, once again, is both of us, so, yeah, driving could be longer -- even though I'm the one who ends up doing all the driving (she usually falls asleep in about an hour -- I guess I don't do good conversation or something)... This is still very early planning stages...
On the off-driving days we visited Tuzigoot National Monument; Out of Africa Wildlife Park; Montezuma Castle National Monument and Well; Carlsbad Caverns; Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden; French Quarter; Parkway Bakery and Tavern (gotta get that Po'boy); Audubon Zoo; San Antonio River Walk; The Alamo; Austin Bat Bridge multiple times while in Austin for the conference; basically out and back on I-10. No family that trip, just friends in Dallas and New Orleans.
That was about 8-9 hours for each driving day but it would take forever to do that for a cross-country trip. It's about 100 hours total round-trip driving time and wouldn't allow time for multiple days in the east coast destinations; we're looking at a 4-week vacation plus weekends on the two ends to extend it (longest off-work allowed)... This trip, once again, is both of us, so, yeah, driving could be longer -- even though I'm the one who ends up doing all the driving (she usually falls asleep in about an hour -- I guess I don't do good conversation or something)... This is still very early planning stages...