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Considering an American road trip

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.
 
infection said:
Sure, but I'm not driving there from Salt Lake.
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You're not driving where? Zions, Arches, Moab, Park City, Jackson, Yellowstone, the Uintas and literally a million more great places to go within easy driving distance, and driving is the only convenient option to get to most of them.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
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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Philly is a complete sty imo. There are parts that are nice. By the Art Museum, Boathouse Row, etc. But in general, I find it to be a dirty, boring, miserable town.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
You're not driving where? Zions, Arches, Moab, Park City, Jackson, Yellowstone, the Uintas and literally a million more great places to go within easy driving distance, and driving is the only convenient option to get to most of them.
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I'm talking road trips >6 hours.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
Philly is a complete sty imo. There are parts that are nice. By the Art Museum, Boathouse Row, etc. But in general, I find it to be a dirty, boring, miserable town.
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Wow. I guess I've been lucky because the Philly you're describing is nothing at all like the Philly that I've experienced.
 
infection said:
I'm talking road trips >6 hours.
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I picked destinations that were too close? There are plenty of great places that are more than 6 hours away. Banff, Seattle, Santa Fe, Grand Canyon, San Francisco, Lake Powell, Phoenix and a million more. Your sentence in post #1 now makes even less sense to me than the first time I read it. I think it's cool that you like to get out a discover new places with your family. Based on your comments I think you're going to be blown away by the number of places there are to be discovered around SLC (and you can get a hell of a lot farther in 6 hours in this half of the country than in the other half).
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
I picked destinations that were too close? There are plenty of great places that are more than 6 hours away. Banff, Seattle, Santa Fe, Grand Canyon, San Francisco, Lake Powell, Phoenix and a million more. Your sentence in post #1 now makes even less sense to me than the first time I read it. I think it's cool that you like to get out a discover new places with your family. Based on your comments I think you're going to be blown away by the number of places there are to be discovered around SLC (and you can get a hell of a lot farther in 6 hours in this half of the country than in the other half).
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There is one exception to this that my wife and I are going to go from SLC to Calgary (speaking of Banf), over to Vancouver, down through Seattle and back. Also, places like Reno and Tahoe we will drive. Or if we have some reason to go to Vegas. Other than that, we're not driving to AZ or any other locale. Sure, you can get places from SLC in 9 hours, but there ain't much between there. At least not that we haven't seen. So what I mean to say is we're not taking a car trip for the leisure of taking a car trip.
 
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