Bout to drive to Portland, LA and Vegas and back to FL. Any suggestions? I'm open to changing the route drastically.
Portland > LA > Vegas
Bout to drive to Portland, LA and Vegas and back to FL. Any suggestions? I'm open to changing the route drastically.
>going from Portland to LA
>Not taking the PCH
Definitely need to follow this advice. I do see you cutting through Tahoe and stuff which is really pretty but honestly you’ll get most of that in Portland-area. You being from Florida how many chances will you have to see the pacific? Just seeing it from LA at like Manhattan beach or something doesn’t do it justice
yeah ill probably take pch unless there's a lot of traffic. You think there will be?
where?
How am I supposed to "narrow it down" when I've never been any of these places?
im not from jax sorry
okay
family has a nice house in the hills.
Fort collins colorado, north of denver near the Wyoming border. it looks like you're driving right through it, but if you're not, I recommend you do
okay thanks
And does anyone have any opinion on indian reservations? Should I avoid or ? (im white)
I went through one once. In I think Montana. You really feel like you're in the middle of nothing. There's not much United States infrastructure. Which means there's a lot less gas stations and rest stops. You'll feel more alone there than you will in the middle of the desert on a United States highway.
Avoid.
but I like that feeling.
It's a bad sort of alone. Like you can't call for help because there's no reception and the nearest police station is 100 miles away. It's not the comfy sort of alone you get on a good hiking trail camping.
>How am I supposed to "narrow it down" when I've never been any of these places?
This is a massive trip. Do some research and plan a few things out. Figure out what each leg of the trip will be. After that ask about things to do on a certain section. It's almost like asking "where are some cool spots in the u.s.a." show you're putting some effort into this besides mapping a route.
>Do some research and plan a few things out.
thats literally why im here thanks. I can go any way I want so give me a reason to go a certain way please
thanks
>I can go any way I want so give me a reason to go a certain way please
Whatever. I hope you actually take this trip and it's not a larp.
From Colorado to grand canyon
Great sand dunes
Road to Aspen (hike trails up that road. independence lake trailhead is based. Pic related)
Yellowstone
Whatever you want
Redwood forest north of San Francisco
San Francisco
Highway 1 down the coast to L.A.
Santa Monica
(Optional) Sunset boulevard through Beverly hills to Hollywood
Huntington Beach to dana point (highway 1)
Vegas
Valley of fire state park
Grand canyon village
>yeah ill probably take pch unless there's a lot of traffic. You think there will be?
not usually. the PCH is very roundabout and slow compared to the I5 so nobody takes it other than road trippers.
The PCH is closed in Big Sur because the road was washed out during the flooding this year. It probably won't open until after summer. Don't count on driving up the California coast.
My buddy is supposed to do that drive today. I wonder what happened..
he'll have to take a shitty detour at Mill Creek and swing back around to Carmel. It's like a 4 hour detour that would have taken 90 minutes. You miss the prettiest part of the drive too.
>driving through fort collins
hell yes I love that place
There's like a zillion different places you could go. Narrow it down. I'm not going to list everything you should do on your trip you beggar homosexual.
No suggestions on the driving but I can give you Portland suggestions in exchange for Jacksonville suggestions (assume you’re from Jax based on map, I am a Portland anon considering moving to Jax)
Why the fuck anyone wants to willingly come to LA is beyond me.
>driving
Take the train dummy. The Pacific line is the most beautiful in the country.
AMTRAK is ghetto as hell and almost as bad as taking a greyhound.
Serious answer here,
You should consider flying in and out of somewhere in the Midwest or on the west coast. Find like a $300 round-trip flight and rent a car for $600 for 2 weeks out of Denver or Salt Lake City. This way, you could skip 3500 miles driving through the middle of the US. Ive done every route across the US from east to west and they are all terrible until you hit Denver. All the good stuff is out west. You could do a loop like this.Every day that you waste driving through Missouri, Oklahoma and the texas panhandle is a day you could have spent somewhere amazing like Jackson Hole Wyoming and Yellowstone.
Denver-Breckenridge-Telluride-Durango-Flagstaff-Las Vegas-Newport Beach- Santa Monica-Santa Barbara-Yosemite- tuolumne meadows- South Lake Tahoe- bend-portland-missoula montana-bozeman- big sky-yellowstone-jackson hole-the tetons-lava hot springs-park city- arches national park-vail-denver
That's a month worth of shit to see. And you won't have to suffer through middle America.
id take I20 from Vegas to Shreveport, that road that goes north of Dallas hits like a million red lights and will really slow you down.