Road Tripping Across America

[NittanyLions94]

Ones I can speak to that may be of interest:

- If you're going to go to Beaver Stadium, and you have the plan ahead of time, go during a "white out" which would be any night game. The experience of a PSU/OSU game at Beaver Stadium at night is the craziest I've ever seen it in that stadium. To see the student section there in full force for a night game is something to see, if you're in to that.

- Florida/Georgia World's Largest Cocktail Party. The last two years it has fell on or right next to halloween, and that made it even better(ladies wise). It is amazing to be in Jacksonville on that day, and if you don't go in to the game, go to the Jacksonville Landing to watch it on the big screen there. It is a mall sort of set up that has an opening in the middle that fills with fans from both sides. Full service bars set up all around with prices that won't put you in debt.

- Ohio Stadium was not that impressive to me, it was pretty quiet for what they hold. If you're in to OSU, then I'd at least try to do the OSU/UM game if you really want to see the stadium.

- PNC Park in Pittsburgh is a hidden gem in the MLB. The team is awful, but if Pittsburgh is one of your stops, go for PNC park over Heinz Field. Heinz Field could be one of the 5 worst designed stadiums in the entire world. Not that loud, either, at least not nearly as loud as Three Rivers was. The open end of the stadium sucks the sound right out. The upper levels are nearly unwatchable during the game.


I'll add, if you've never been:

NFL/MLB hall of fames
Cameron Indoor
Niagara Falls
I'll second the Outer Banks

[DukiesBaby]

If u ever get down towards arizona nevada border and check out the hoover dam, look off to the right check out the new bridge they are building in mid air pretty cool to watch them work at night

[Daws1089]

Camden Yards in Bmore a must see....Nats stadium pretty nice also

camden yards is not a must see imo. Really just like any other park. Decent setting being that it is around a lot of bars and restaurants near fells point, but definitely not a must see. If you are doing the whole go to a game at every ball park deal then fine, but this would be easy to weed out in the list you already have going on here.

[Silver & Black]

Must See...
California
Solvang - Paso Robles - Cambria - Hurst Castle, can be done in a long weekend and the wine in Paso Robles i'll put up against any Napa - Sonoma wine

Black Hills - Mt Rushmore and Crazy Horse.. you'll be glad you saw it, probably never go back

Yellowstone - remember when going, its the trip, not the destination. Wife was in a hurry to get through it. We live in the mountains, wildlife is wildlife (her comment)

Wrigley Field and downtown Chicago in general, Found an awesome cigar bar about a block from the Weber BBQ Grill restaraunt.. Fantastic

San Diego, hit the Breweries off the 78.. micro beer that will kick your ass, and several in a 5 mile stretch

Colorado Springs - hike the Garden of the Gods, take the kids to Santa's Village

Kansas City - hit the 810 zone sports bar on a Missouri Football Saturday

Maui - snorking is a must, the Road to Hanna - over rated IMO

Cancun - stay in the resort or take a tour, Playa Del Carmon is a "dirty" Tijuana

Rio De Janiero - 14 hours on a plane from San Diego.. Sugarloaf and Christ the Redeemer. if you're hungry, El Porko... they just keep bringing the food until you put up a stop sign.. at 2am in a bar, a local told me he had to leave to take his 13 and 14 year old daughters to the club!! Issue I couldn't believe, they still call "black" people Slaves

[snowman]

i think thats on most sports fans list. i would love to do it

[The Mailman]

Add Tijuana to the list of places to never go to. What a dump.

I'd like to drive the baja strip down in mexico but dont have the balls to do it.

Corrupt cops, freeway pirates, Ive heard all kinds of negative **** about driving down there.

[The Mailman]

GMoney,

Highway 1 is so beautiful man. Great call on that.

Scary as hell though. I saw a landslide where if you were driving where the slide hit, it'd have undoubtedly knocked your car down the cliff.

Get this.. I saw a GLASS HOUSE built on the side of the cliffs. I also saw people that had flat roofed houses with grass growing on top of them. No ****, I saw a guy mowing his lawn on his roof.

Some great restaurants around Carmel. I heard Clint Eastwood owns one and is often times there mingling with the clients.

I think that highway 1 drive took forever. I wanna say there were stretches where we didnt go faster than 25mph if memory serves me correct.

Big Sur is cool. I believe that's where the purple sand beach was?

[The Mailman]

Q,

Best time to hit Seattle is August. Safeco is real close to the water and you'll freeze your ass off if you go in sept/oct.

[Jerbeek]

Places I have been to and really don't care to go back to:

Los Angeles
New Orleans
Matamoras Mexico - went there with the church youth group on a missions trip, can't believe people live like that.

[Jerbeek]

Best places I have been to and would love to go back to:

Maui
Kauai

No need to list any others but here are some honorable mentions:

Seattle
Oregon Coast
Vegas
Chicago
Disneyworld - go when your kids are young enough to still believe but old enough to walk themselves and able to remember it.
Washington DC
North Minnesota
Denver/Rocky Mountains

[Jerbeek]

Too many places to list but here are the spots that I have on my short list in no particular order.

California Coast Drive
Oregon/Washington to see the Salmon spawn
Grand Canyon
Yellowstone
Mt. Rushmore
Niagra Falls
East coast during fall colors
New York Skyline
Statue of Liberty
Fenway Park
Yankee Stadium
Actually any baseball stadium (LOL)
Cape Canaveral (sp) during a blast off

[Q-Unit]

Having grown up in California and lived here most of my life I have to say the drive from SF to LA down highway 1 through Big Sur (Steinbeck Country) is a must. It will take you through Monterray down the wine country coastal regions and even Santa Barbara which is heavenly. It takes about 1.5-2 hours longer than the 5, but you get scenery like Big Sur and the Pacific Ocean, as opposed to smelly dairy farms.

Personally I'd skip the tourist spots like Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, and opt to appreciate a city the way the locals would. Thats how I like to travel. :thumbs:

I was very impressed with Monterrey Bay.

yeh, I'm more of the square tourist you see with maps and "i love NY" t-shirts walking around lol

actually we always try to hit up tourist spots, and local spots equally as long as there are good eats involved :beerbang:

btw recently went to Chicago and had the best hotdog in my life, have heard stories of Chicago-style, but didnt think you could really screw up hotdog, boy I was wrong!

[Q-Unit]

Q,

If you get to Seattle ya gotta hit Safeco Field. It's absolutely awesome. A good hotel to stay at there is the Edgewater as I believe it's the only waterfront hotel there. Very nice place. You'll pay a big buck to stay there, but well worth it.

Staying at ANY hotel downtown Seattle is a nightmare. We stayed at a very nice place downtown and every hour sirens woke me up and I sleep like a log!

Other "must sees" in Seattle include the space needle, the rock museum located near the space needle, a boat tour, going on a city tour in one of "the ducks" (old amphibius military vehicles), qwest field and pikes market where you see those guys on tv throwing the fish around. Cool place.

Also, they have tours to Victoria BC on super shuttle boats that go fast. Ferry rides are cool too regardless of the destination if you like water and sites.

whats best time to go?

early summer or late summer?

if I want to take in a Seahawks game I guess it'd have to be fall too lol :thumbs:

[GMoney]

Having grown up in California and lived here most of my life I have to say the drive from SF to LA down highway 1 through Big Sur (Steinbeck Country) is a must. It will take you through Monterray down the wine country coastal regions and even Santa Barbara which is heavenly. It takes about 1.5-2 hours longer than the 5, but you get scenery like Big Sur and the Pacific Ocean, as opposed to smelly dairy farms.

Personally I'd skip the tourist spots like Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, and opt to appreciate a city the way the locals would. Thats how I like to travel. :thumbs:

[daft_picks]

I did the digging for diamonds thing in arkansas when I was younger, didn't find anything but it was cool. If you plan on crossing through Nashville let me know there's lots of cool places you could check out, like seeing a show at the Ryman or checking out the hilarious honky tonk scene downtown. Also if you make it to Miami I know a bunch of stuff to check out there. I've been meaning to do a West Coast road trip for a long time cause I've seen so much on the east side. Do it for sure.

And about Graceland, I've been twice and it's ok, Memphis kind of sucks though if you're going to go to TN hit Nashville instead. I am biased but I think there's more to see and do in Nashville overall. Graceland is kind of depressing, seriously.