The Visit List

35 potential visits, some merely drive by's, some overnighters, some significant sites, some family/friend visits.  Now it's your turn.  What have you discovered near this route that you suggest we add? Do you know of any "must see's", diners, drive-ins, dives that we aren't aware of ?

Tell us where.

Click here to see our tentative visits. Those in red are family/friend visits (you know who you are).  We'll warn you within 24 hours.
Places To Visit - Make your Suggestions

FDR Home and grave site Hyde Park , NY
TR Home Sagamore Oyster Bay, NY
Liberty Bell, Phildelphia, PA
Winterhur, Winterthur, DE

Harper's Ferry, WV
Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, MD
Monticello, Charlottesville, VA
Williamsburg, VA
Chesapeake, VA
Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC

Biltmore, 1864

Lumberton. SC
Charleston, SC
Savannah, GA
Pensacola, FL
Monroeville, AL
Birmingham, AL

Vicksburg, MS

New Orleans, LA
Honey Grove, TX
Hugo, OK
Nacodoches, TX
Oklahoma City, OK
Tulsa, OK
Independence, KS
Fayetteville, AR
Clinton, OK
Santa Fe, NM
Taos, NM
Durango, CO
Mesa Verde, CO
Monument Valley, UT
Grand Canyon, AZ
Las Vegas, NV
St. George, UT

Springdale, UT
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel

Trip Prep

The car is rented the dates are set.  You have arrived on this page by invitation or just by chance.  No matter your reason for being here follow Tom and John on their "bucket list" trip meandering from Boston to LA .  Find out what interests two baby boomers who finally got time to explore those "someday" places everyone hears about and some visit OR those places no one knows about and only these two find interesting.
Google tells us that the driving distance between Boston and Los Angeles is 2, 990 miles.  The best route takes you west from Boston, through New York state, skirting along Lake Erie's southern (U.S.) shore through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, veering southwest through Colorado, Utah, Nevada and in to California. That route should take you about 1 day +19 hours of driving time if you wanted to get there purposefully.

Which is why this is not the route we will take.

Follow us down the east coast across the south toward the Gulf Coast, through eastern Texas north to Oklahoma, on to what we can find of Route 66, west to New Mexico, the four corners, Utah, Arizona, California.

Stopping at those well known sites (Williamsburg, Charleston, Savannah, Pensacola, New Orleans etc) discovering those other places that strike our interest.  And of course checking in with friends, and family who thought we'd never track them down (thanks again Google).

Visit this space which will be more regularly updated as we approach departure date, April 20, 2015.