Good luck, Steve, wish I was going with you . . . but you may well have bitten off more than you can chew!

it will be no problem, the only place we are tied to is phoenix, NY and Washington, after that we can go where we please depending on time, hopefully seeing as many places on that route as possible. Aslong as we make it back to JFK on the 21st 🙂

Can’t beat travelling out of a backpack in my opinion, beats a nice hotel anyday.

great, it will beat Norway then for value for money.

Better take some trousers with elasticated waistbands then 😮

Moggy

noted and taken onboard 🙂

is it true about the large portions and refills?

Steve
my initial impression is that you’re being a bit ambitious with your list of places you want to visit. Even in four weeks you’ll be hard pushed to see all of those and you’ll only scratch the surface of any of those places that you list if you try and do all of them.
Do you propse flying between all those locations? You’ll need to to get round them and even then you’ll spend a lot of time on aircraft and in airports.

I’ be inclined to decide East Coast or West Coast and maybe an optional side trip to Canada–maybe a flight home from there.
Mrs Aib and I once spent a couple of weeks progressing up the Eastern seaboard by car, stopping off and seeing places and things and people along the way. We dumped the hire car at Boston airport and flew up to Toronto for a few extra days at the end.

Hope this helps
Andy

andy, thanks for the advice, we’ll be taking Greyhound coaches mostly, and the plan is to see as much as we can in the time possible. Most of the travelling will be done overnight. Its definately ambitious but possible and if we run out of time we can adjust the rough route as we go and drop places if needs be. Any indepth exploration of these places can be done on a future trip. A past month long exploration of Europe resulted in 16 countries visited and whilst tiring it’s quite enjoyable to do a whistlestop tour like this.

thanks for the tips everyone. Most places I will visit will have to be centrally located as trips off the beaten path just won’t be possible in general. Is the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry worth a look?

thanks again everyone, best regards, steve

thanks flood,

Colonial Bird, Grand Canyon is definately on the list as is Monument Valley so I can see where some of the John Ford films were made. I have no intention of visiting a British Pub 🙂 Nothing worse than Brits abroad who do nothing more than eat in English style pubs etc, I intend to immerse myself in US culture for 4 weeks.

Looking forward to seeing Sentimental Journey as Mesa.