Are you going to go to Yellow stone considering you're in that part of the country anyway? If you do snag some cool pictures of El Capitan.
Ive been there before, it was amazing and the sulfer springs stunk like hell.
Me and the Mrs drove out there in 1991 in a geo metro. It was a lot of fun.
We stopped at the corn palace, wall drug, devils tower, stopped in chicago on
the way out. Good times. we even stopped at Graceland on the way back
and I asked the guard at the steps if we could see the commode he died on.
The guard was not amused.
Zion national park, Red cliffs, Sand Hollow resivour(sp*),Arches national park, Moab(jeep heaven), Bryce national park, Lake Powell is fun as hell, Timpanogus cave, swim in the great salt lake, salt flats, 1000s of places to camp, there is a lot more, just cant think of them right now.
Salt Flats aren't worth seeing unless you're A: Going to drive on it, and go fast. B: Watching an event.
You MUST go through Zions national park just a little bit north of St. George. The Manti-Lasalle valley is a really pretty drive, and when you work your way up through Utah county (for the love of God, don't stop there) the ONLY thing worth driving is the Alpine loop. Park City is cool, lots of neat shops and there's still snow up there despite blogal warning.
yeah I was interested in going to the salt flats... but ive been talked out of it by you all.
thanks for the advise.
Maybe one day i can get to a speed event there.???
If anyone has not seen "the worlds fastest indian" , it was a great flick about
the flats and anthony hopkins as "Burt Monroe"
the kiwi on a modified streamlined indian motorcycle that did 220mph on it.
Ive drempt of running something on the flats since I saw that movie.
The route in red moving up from Phoenix is absolutely incredible. We had a convoy of M915 military trucks moving up, rolling through the four corners, I was in awe. I can't imagine living out there, and there is very little civilization save the occasional trailer or extreme sports lovers, but the valleys, sheer rock walls, stone pillars, etc, just incredible. I have not been there in my SRT but I can only imagine how much fun some of those roads are. We were limited to 55 mph in our convoy.
The route in purple I have taken twice, from Nebraska to San Diego then back 3 months later. It's not quite as cool as the red route, but still pretty nice, until you get to Albuquerque, after that it's a little boring.
The most BORING stretch of interstate in the United States has to be the blue route. That stretch going through Kansas is absolutely intolerable. We used to take that route all the time on our way to Ft Carson, Colorado, and there is NOTHING but wheat fields. If someone who loves driving ends up in hell, they would be stuck driving an endless stretch of interstate 70 like that you see in Kansas.
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the red route seems to go the same way we are going... But we are going to loop around the north rim of the canyon and then head into the national parks in UT.
2 Weeks seems like plenty of time to see a lot of it.
Prepare for 100 degree's in the Valley and chilly weather up North in AZ. Well, Sub-70 degree's is chilly to me.
Haha, I forgot all about that, we went down in like November and it was 35 when we left Nebraska with our convoy, it was 90 degrees in Phoenix, we stayed at a National Guard armory next to some sort of aircraft graveyard looking place. The next day, we head north and a ways out from Flagstaff it starts snowing. There was about a 65 degree temperature change in only 2 hours.
I was riding along in my truck and I looked over at my codriver "Hey, did you turn the AC way up or something?" I opened the window a crack and it was like "WOAH"
Haha, I forgot all about that, we went down in like November and it was 35 when we left Nebraska with our convoy, it was 90 degrees in Phoenix, we stayed at a National Guard armory next to some sort of aircraft graveyard looking place. The next day, we head north and a ways out from Flagstaff it starts snowing. There was about a 65 degree temperature change in only 2 hours.
I was riding along in my truck and I looked over at my codriver "Hey, did you turn the AC way up or something?" I opened the window a crack and it was like "WOAH"
Yeah, it's crazy. Summer lasted way too long last year (like you said, until November), but I hate Winter more. Wish it'd stay Spring/Fall for longer.
yeah, I know the temps will be jacked. The first stop after getting the rental truck is to buy a couple cases of water so I dont end up dying from dehydration in the sun.
hey quagmire, (gotta say that first part in Peter's voice), how much is that trip gonna cost you roughly if u dont mind me asking? Sounds like a blast and i've been wanting to do something like that with my fiancee/soon wife for a long time. Looks like a blast have fun.
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hey quagmire, (gotta say that first part in Peter's voice), how much is that trip gonna cost you roughly if u dont mind me asking? Sounds like a blast and i've been wanting to do something like that with my fiancee/soon wife for a long time. Looks like a blast have fun.
We got round trip plane tickets for $800 back in November for the 2 of us.
Car Rental for 2 Weeks was about $500 and the mrs booked various locations along the route for 2 weeks @ about $150 or less per night = $2000ish
so about $3000.oo oh plus gas for the truck $400
It would have been cheaper to do 1 week, but its been a quite some time since
we have undertaken a trip like this. Usually we rent a house at the beach or mountains
for a week and it runs us 2K or so.
I'm lucky because she did most of the planning/booking and she is pretty good at that stuff.
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if we would have driven out it would have cost a lot more.
but i would have opted to camp out more if we did.
you can save a good deal of coin by camping.
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