Gallowbraid
Adventurist
I'm looking to put together a lengthy road trip for early summer 2018. This is the rough plan I have now:
Friday May 25th - Clarkesville GA - Last day of school means my daughter and I head out shortly after lunch.
May 26th - June 1 or 2 - Head toward Spokane WA, no solid plans for this timeframe at the moment. (My daughter wants to see California so I'm debating heading straight west to LA and then north from there.)
June 1 or 2 - Spokane WA - My wife can only take 2 weeks off at a time so she'll fly into Spokane WA where we'll pick her up and drive to Kalispell, MT.
June 1/2 - 6 - Kalispell MT - Spend 5 or 6 days seeing Kalispell, Hungry Horse, Glacier NP, Polebridge and Kayaking Bowman lake.
June 7 - 8 - Missoula, Bozeman, Yellowstone - Spend a couple days making our way down to Yellowstone. My wife wants to see Missoula and Bozeman (the more of Montana I show her the better my chances of moving the family there!)
June 8 - 9 - See Yellowstone, not sure how busy it'll be this time of the year, but I imagine it's more people than I want to see while on vacation.
June 10 - 14 Salt Lake City, Capital Reef, Canyon Land (Possibly put my wife on a plane back to Atlanta, she's not a fan of driving/riding)
June 15 - 17 Drive back to Clarkesville, GA
Other than my solo trips around the south west and the occassional GA to VT trip, I've never done any lengthy road trip like this, especially with a daughter who isn't convinced this will be fun or a wife who doesn't like long trips in a vehicle. Any tips or adjustments to the route? Obviously plenty of stops are going to be in order to keep them happy. The vehicle of choice for this trip will be our Sequoia pulling the trailer with the RTT. We'll camp most nights but I'm sure we'll hit a hotel several times as well to keep the ladies happy.
Friday May 25th - Clarkesville GA - Last day of school means my daughter and I head out shortly after lunch.
May 26th - June 1 or 2 - Head toward Spokane WA, no solid plans for this timeframe at the moment. (My daughter wants to see California so I'm debating heading straight west to LA and then north from there.)
June 1 or 2 - Spokane WA - My wife can only take 2 weeks off at a time so she'll fly into Spokane WA where we'll pick her up and drive to Kalispell, MT.
June 1/2 - 6 - Kalispell MT - Spend 5 or 6 days seeing Kalispell, Hungry Horse, Glacier NP, Polebridge and Kayaking Bowman lake.
June 7 - 8 - Missoula, Bozeman, Yellowstone - Spend a couple days making our way down to Yellowstone. My wife wants to see Missoula and Bozeman (the more of Montana I show her the better my chances of moving the family there!)
June 8 - 9 - See Yellowstone, not sure how busy it'll be this time of the year, but I imagine it's more people than I want to see while on vacation.
June 10 - 14 Salt Lake City, Capital Reef, Canyon Land (Possibly put my wife on a plane back to Atlanta, she's not a fan of driving/riding)
June 15 - 17 Drive back to Clarkesville, GA
Other than my solo trips around the south west and the occassional GA to VT trip, I've never done any lengthy road trip like this, especially with a daughter who isn't convinced this will be fun or a wife who doesn't like long trips in a vehicle. Any tips or adjustments to the route? Obviously plenty of stops are going to be in order to keep them happy. The vehicle of choice for this trip will be our Sequoia pulling the trailer with the RTT. We'll camp most nights but I'm sure we'll hit a hotel several times as well to keep the ladies happy.