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packman

(16,296 posts) Wed Mar 9, 2016, 08:49 PM Mar 2016

Get away from it all - Road Trip

The hell with all this Bernie/Hillary stuff - take a few months off, hop in the car and take a road trip---

"...this road trip will take about 224 hours (9.33 days) of driving in total, so it’s truly an epic undertaking that will take at least 2-3 months to complete. The best part is that this road trip is designed so that you can start anywhere on the route as long as you follow it from then on. You’ll hit every major area in the U.S. on this trip, and as an added bonus, you won’t spend too long driving through the endless corn fields of Nebraska"

An interactive map, showing all those "must see" places:

http://rhiever.github.io/optimal-roadtrip-usa/major-landmarks.html

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Get away from it all - Road Trip (Original Post) packman Mar 2016 OP

Don't let a machine choose your route. greendog Mar 2016 #1

greendog

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1. Don't let a machine choose your route.

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Wed Mar 9, 2016, 09:46 PM

Mar 2016

Pick your stops according to your own interests, get out your atlas, and look for interesting back roads. Try to avoid the 4-lanes.

A lot of the roads on the machine's route are crowded and / or boring. Why take I-5 up the west coast? US-101 and US-395 are both more interesting. And why take the Hi-Line across Montana? Almost any other route will be nicer.

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