If you want to do one road trip in your life, do this one.
In two weeks you go from the forests of Washington and Yellowstone, to the red rock deserts of Utah and Monument Valley, Route 66 and the Grand Canyon, and up the coast through LA, San Francisco and Yosemite. The scale, the variety, and the number of genuinely world-class sights along the way are unmatched anywhere in the world.
I’ve done a lot of road trips. This is the best one.
Before you begin . . . this is a super high octane trip – 4200 miles / 6760km of driving. The sort of thing you rattle off in your 20s, when you have the energy, 2 weeks of vacation and are keen to see and do everything. There’s something just so incredibly fun and fantastic about seeing one world-famous site one after the other in rapid succession.
But could you take more time? Of course. 3 days hiking in some of these parks would have been wonderful and I shudder just thinking of trying to do this again. But in a part of the world that has world class sites one after the other, the gorging on them was great fun. Do it.
