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Considering an American road trip

Cunning Linguist said:
PA pretty much blows. There are some decent places here and there. Amish country (Lancaster) may be interesting for him. There's a mini-Niagra Falls which is pretty cool in Eastern PA. Like that. But yeah, it's pretty meh.
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Lived all over Ohio on my mission and then in Missouri around a lot of Amish. The Amish in Missouri were much more liberal.

Regarding Erie, maybe not a fun place to visit but not a bad town. Gave consideration to moving there for school.
 
infection said:
Lived all over Ohio on my mission and then in Missouri around a lot of Amish. The Amish in Missouri were much more liberal.

Regarding Erie, maybe not a fun place to visit but not a bad town. Gave consideration to moving there for school.
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I graduated from HS in Port Clinton (between Sandusky and Toledo). Put-in-bay is cool.
Had offices in Youngstown, Columbus, Cleveland, and Cinci.
 
Dr. Jones said:
I graduated from HS in Port Clinton (between Sandusky and Toledo). Put-in-bay is cool.
Had offices in Youngstown, Columbus, Cleveland, and Cinci.
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Spent my time in Delaware, Marysville, Westerville, Columbus, Pickerington, Huber Heights, Washington Courthouse. Norther Ohio (past Mansfield) was in another mission. Never actually went up to Cleveland until I was back for an interview in Columbus about 4 years ago and used the time to drive up.
 
infection said:
Spent my time in Delaware, Marysville, Westerville, Columbus, Pickerington, Huber Heights, Washington Courthouse. Norther Ohio (past Mansfield) was in another mission. Never actually went up to Cleveland until I was back for an interview in Columbus about 4 years ago and used the time to drive up.
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Did you do any hard time in Mansfield?
 
I like your list other than the part where you're going to be traveling with 4 kids. ;)

My youngest is 3 and I'm JUST getting to the place where I think traveling on vacation will be worth it. :D

So good on you.
 
Don't stop at New York. I can suggest a city in the Northeast well worth seeing. Newport, RI. One of the largest and best preserved concentrations of colonial architecture in the country. Largest concentration of mansions from the Gilded Era, many open to the public. One of the great sailing capitals. Nearby Providence has the best eateries in New England. Newport is a gem. If you can, journey east of New York. New England is beautiful.

Here's the Newport I know and love....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=57rVDNAGCMs
 
Red said:
Don't stop at New York. I can suggest a city in the Northeast well worth seeing. Newport, RI. One of the largest and best preserved concentrations of colonial architecture in the country. Largest concentration of mansions from the Gilded Era, many open to the public. One of the great sailing capitals. Nearby Providence has the best eateries in New England. Newport is a gem. If you can, journey east of New York. New England is beautiful.

Here's the Newport I know and love....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=57rVDNAGCMs
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We'll do a separate New England trip where we'll drive maybe from NYC up through main and hit everything in between. A lot more to see there but will have to wait for another time.
 
Glad to see New England was not forgotten. I know I am biased but it's the best of the east coast. Come in the summer for the beaches and lobster or come during the fall. Here are the best places outside of Boston:

Newport, RI

Salem,Gloucester,Rockport, MA

Cape Cod

Portland, ME

Bar Harbor, ME

Martha's/Nantucket

Burlington, VT

White Mountains, NH

Berkshires, MA
 
Will there be kids on said road trip? If not and you stay the night in Memphis hit Beale St. The drive from Memphis to Nashville gets pretty beautiful I hear.

Jackson, MS and Birmingham, AL were nothing special IMO. Just another town.

In Memphis stay out of Millington (northern part of the city) and Orange Mound (at night, It's near Memphis Uni).
 
Nashville is one of the most underrated towns in the country. Super cool to hang out there a few days.
 
infection said:
After we move to Utah it's pointless because there's nothing outside the wasatch front for quite a ways, so we will mostly retire from that unless we fly somewhere to rent a car.
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This is the strangest sentence of the post, IMO. And I've traveled extensively, with children, in all of the areas that the OP describes.

Also, I agree with most of the travel comments I've seen in this thread except that I've got more love for Philly and Pittsburgh than the rest of you, and less love for Memphis.

DC, NYC, New England, Niagara Falls, and Baltimore's Inner Harbor are all worth visiting. I also love Chattanooga. A lot of the other towns on the list are blech.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
This is the strangest sentence of the post, IMO. And I've traveled extensively, with children, in all of the areas that the OP describes.
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Why is that so weird? We live in closer proximity to hitting a lot of cities within relatively short distance. I sure as **** am not driving to New York from Utah. I'll fly.
 
infection said:
Why is that so weird? We live in closer proximity to hitting a lot of cities within relatively short distance. I sure as **** am not driving to New York from Utah. I'll fly.
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Once did SLC to Vegas, to LA, to Memphis, to LA, to Vegas, to southern Utah inside of two weeks with my mother and Gma. Ugh so much time in the car...
 
Dr. Jones said:
Nashville is one of the most underrated towns in the country. Super cool to hang out there a few days.
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My brother went there for work several years ago and came home raving about it. Took his wife a couple years later and she loved it. My parents just went earlier this year and thoroughly loved it. It's list of places to go, but not at the top.
 
infection said:
Why is that so weird? We live in closer proximity to hitting a lot of cities within relatively short distance. I sure as **** am not driving to New York from Utah. I'll fly.
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I guess if the only destination of interest to you is a big city it makes sense. There are a ton of great places to go that don't have population in the millions.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
This is the strangest sentence of the post, IMO. And I've traveled extensively, with children, in all of the areas that the OP describes.

Also, I agree with most of the travel comments I've seen in this thread except that I've got more love for Philly and Pittsburgh than the rest of you, and less love for Memphis.

DC, NYC, New England, Niagara Falls, and Baltimore's Inner Harbor are all worth visiting. I also love Chattanooga. A lot of the other towns on the list are blech.
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Pitt is great. Philly blows.
 
bigb said:
My brother went there for work several years ago and came home raving about it. Took his wife a couple years later and she loved it. My parents just went earlier this year and thoroughly loved it. It's list of places to go, but not at the top.
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What's at the top? I'm curious.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
I guess if the only destination of interest to you is a big city it makes sense. There are a ton of great places to go that don't have population in the millions.
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Sure, but I'm not driving there from Salt Lake.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
Pitt is great. Philly blows.
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Pitt is awesome and possibly the best sports city in America. The stadiums are fantastic (I love the location) and the fans are even better. Geography is awesome, totally unexpected, and the approach from the airport through the tunnel is the perfect way to see it for the first time. Also, it's made an extremely impressive transition from a steel town to a high-tech hub. No other city in the region has pulled that off half as well.

I can't understand how anyone wouldn't like Philly, though. I've been there many times and I find something else to love every time.
 
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