The Big Picture

I spent some time this afternoon while the girls (didn't really) nap and pinpointed areas along our route to show the general direction and plan of the trip. Get excited by this one, people! This is our trip mapped out (sans a couple of locations due to Google only being able to do so many destinations at a time) in full from Cambridge to Columbus (though the assumption would be that we get back to Cambridge after a stop off to pay our respects at OSU).

We'll be taking a circuitous route south and across during the earlier part of the summer and then the northern route will happen as the weather gets hotter. We thought it best to avoid driving through the desert in August.

Along the route you can see the highlighted spots:
A) Cambridge, NY [home base]
B) Home of FDR in Hyde Park, NY [first stop] off the Taconic PKWY
C) Delaware River Gap [NRA] and then follow Rte 209 to
D) Gettysburg Battleground
E) Front Royal, VA is the opening to Skyline Drive and the Shenandoah National Park
F) After Skyline Drive we'll make our way south to H) the Great Smokies via the Blue Ridge PKWY (G)
I) Brentwood, TN to shout "WE'RE DEBT FREE"
J) Hotsprings, AR to relax and "take the water" at an old hotsprings resort!
K) Oklahoma city where we plan to pick up and follow Historic Rte 66 across to
L) Amarillo, TX; M) Santa Fe, NM; N) and Flagstaff, AZ before turning north to
O) Grand Canyon National Park.
From there we travel north to P) Zion National Park in Utah and head towards
Q) Las Vegas, NV to be pampered in a silly tourist destination.
R) Yosemite National Park for several days of sightseeing and then north on US-101 towards
S) Redwood National Park and T) Olympic National Park from which we turn back East to
U) Mt. St Helens, V) Glacier National Park or W) Yellowstone National Park, and then V) The Badlands
X) Rounding off our trip east will be a stop in Columbus for said homage to the Buckeyes and then home!

Hope to see you on the road somewhere!