So, Devin, where are you stopping on your cross-country drive?
Well, up until today, dear reader, I didn’t have an answer. But now I do.
I’ve spent the past week researching all the recommendations I received, running them through Randy Olson’s magical genetic algorithm, and have come up with the following route.
A few disclaimers about the current “plan”:
- It doesn’t actually cover every stop I’ll be making, as I had to limit it down to 50 locations to get the script to work properly
- I don’t know how long it’s going to take me yet – I’m still guessing about 3 months total
- I don’t know when I’ll be any of these locations (except Erie by August 1st)
- The route will likely change as I make my way across the country and decide I want to go other places
All that said, here’s an interactive version of it. This link will be the more up-to-date version, as I’ll continually tweak it as I work my way across the country.
The Destinations
| Order | Destination |
| 1 | Big Bear Lake, CA’ |
| 2 | Drive-Thru Tree Park, Drive Thru Tree Road, Leggett, CA’, |
| 3 | Astoria, OR’, |
| 4 | Hanford Site, Benton County, WA’, |
| 5 | Glacier National Park, West Glacier, MT’, |
| 6 | Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve, Butte County, ID’, |
| 7 | Yellowstone National Park, Teton County, WY’, |
| 8 | Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota 244, Keystone, SD’, |
| 9 | Enchanted Highway, Regency-Gladstone Rd, Regent, North Dakota 58650 USA’, |
| 10 | Minneapolis, MN’, |
| 11 | Taliesin, County Road C, Spring Green, WI’, |
| 12 | Chicago, IL’, |
| 13 | Detroit, MI’, |
| 14 | Cleveland, OH’, |
| 15 | Erie, PA’, |
| 16 | The Mark Twain House & Museum, Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT’, |
| 17 | Providence, RI’, |
| 18 | Provincetown, MA’, |
| 19 | Acadia National Park, Mount Desert, ME’, |
| 20 | Mount Washington Cog Railway, Coos County, NH’, |
| 21 | Ben & Jerry’s, 1281 Waterbury Stowe Rd, Waterbury, VT 05676, |
| 22 | New York, NY’, |
| 23 | Seaside Heights, NJ’, |
| 24 | Amstel House Museum, 2 E 4th St, New Castle, DE 19720’, |
| 25 | The White House, Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC’, |
| 26 | Baltimore, MD’, |
| 27 | Monticello, Thomas Jefferson Parkway, Charlottesville, VA’, |
| 28 | Lost World Caverns, Lewisburg, WV’, |
| 29 | Wright Brothers National Memorial, North Croatan Highway, Kill Devil Hills, NC’, |
| 30 | Fort Sumter National Monument, Charleston County, SC’, |
| 31 | The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Hogsmeade, Universal Boulevard, Orlando, FL’, |
| 32 | Atlanta, GA’, |
| 33 | Fort Morgan, Alabama 180, Gulf Shores, AL’, |
| 34 | New Orleans, LA’, |
| 35 | Jackson, MS’, |
| 36 | Little Rock, AR’, |
| 37 | Nashville, TN’, |
| 38 | Mammoth Cave National Park, Mammoth Cave Parkway, Mammoth Cave, KY’, |
| 39 | Indianapolis, IN’, |
| 40 | St. Louis, MO’, |
| 41 | Des Moines, IA’, |
| 42 | Lincoln, NE’, |
| 43 | Wichita, KS’, |
| 44 | Oklahoma City, OK’, |
| 45 | Austin, TX’, |
| 46 | White Sands National Monument, Otero County, NM’, |
| 47 | Colorado Springs, Co’, |
| 48 | Bryce Canyon National Park, Bryce, UT’, |
| 49 | Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, AZ’, |
| 50 | Hoover Dam, Clark County, NV’, |