In pursuit of reaching all 50 states before I’m 30 (as I promised I would do when I was 20; seven to go), here are some road trip itineraries. Not that they go to that many states, but I want to go everywhere.
S.F. – Carson City/Reno – Boise – Bend, OR – Crater Lake – S.F. At 1500 miles, this would take 28 hours of driving. Which means you would do it in five days, six if you stayed in Crater Lake an extra day. (Bend is where the Thomas Beatie, the Pregnant Man lives. He had the baby and is pregnant again. I would like to drive there and tell him how I support his radically normal agenda.)
S. F. – Yosemite – Kings Canyon/Sequoia Nat’l Parks – Death Valley – Las Vegas – Joshua Tree – Coastline – S. F. This one would be way longer. It’s 1600 miles plus adventures within the national parks, but a lot of it is windy backroads. Especially the last leg, going up the coast on 1. It wouldn’t be quite as terrifying to do that drive at night as it is to come south, because the Pacific isn’t right below you heading north, but it would take an eternity. An amazing eternity. And by going to Death Valley one simply must visit the Amargosa Opera House in Death Valley Junction. Not that I have yet.
Suck the Rainbow 