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Lots to Do / My Take / Super Long Posted by EGD [Email]  (#663) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from EGD) on Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:21:55
In Reply to: Cross Country in SAAB 9000 (bought online), Charles Michael Murray, Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:10:32 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Some thoughts on the trip… Boston: do the Freedom Trail but skip Paul Revere’s house; if you drive I-95 through Providence, walk around the inside of the state capitol building – it’s quite nice; near New London, CT (Groton?) you should visit the USS Nautilus submarine museum; in NYC: skip the Empire State Bldg (you’ll wait for hours and be squeezed in like a sardine at the top). Take a relaxing Circle Line tour by boat of Manhattan instead. You can either circle the entire island or just go from around Pier 42 on the east side of Manhattan around Battery Park and up under the Brooklyn Bridge, both will take you close to the Statue on Liberty; I’d take I-80 across northern PA to Ohio. Unless you’re set of taking I-80/90 to Chicago, I’d link up with I-76 to I-71 to Columbus and then I-70 to Dayton which has the USAF Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB; if you want I-80/90, stop off at the Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Taking I-70 allows you to skip Chicago because you can get I-74 in Indianapolis to Davenport, IA where you can link back up to I-80. Why skip Chicago? The place is so great you could spend a week and you should (ditto for NYC, of course). Anyway, I’m sure Iowa has something to see but I haven’t found it yet. Omaha has a refurbed stockyards area with decent steaks and near Lincoln is the Strategic Air Command Museum (there’s that airplane theme again -- great static displays of a/c and rockets). From there, it’s a straight shot to Rawlins, WY to link up with I-287 to Yellowstone and Grand Teton NPs. If you take I-90 from Chicago, you can see the Black Hills of SD (Mt Rushmore, Wind Cave NP, and there’s a decommissioned ICBM silo you can tour just off I-90 about an hour east of Rapid City). Skip Badlands NP because you live in LA and you can see pretty much the same thing by driving through our badlands between Moreno Valley and Banning on the way to Palm Springs! Devil’s Tower, WY is on your way (kind of) to Yellowstone. Ditto for Little Big Horn. The quickest way from I-90 is to skip LBH and take US-16 at Buffalo, WY through Cody, WY to Yellowstone. You know what to do in those places. Work your way over to Idaho Falls and pick up I-15 to I-86 to I-84 to US 93 to I-80 near Wells, NV. If you want to make a Great Basin detour, SE of Elko (from Elko) is Lamoille Canyon, a glacier-carved high-mountain canyon. I’d then work my way over to Lake Tahoe via Virginia City (a small mining town that’s now an entire national historic site). Take US 50 from Lake Tahoe through Sacramento to SF. Sacramento has the California Railroad Museum which is pretty cool if you’re into trains. I’ll leave the rest of California to you since you live here and know it.
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