Tuesday, May 19, 2015

My final itinerary for the US

Ok, I think I have the intinerary for my summer trip to the US ready now.

6/22 Oslo - London - Los Angeles. Flying out wth a looooong wait in London. Getting mah rental car.
6/23 Los Angeles - Victorville - Death Valley. Hooking up with friends in Victorville.
6/24 Death Valley - Mammoth Lakes. Drive through Death Valley NP, up by Lone Pines (and possibly up Mt Whitney) to Mammoth Lakes.
6/25 Mammoth Lakes - Yosemite NP - Fresno. Visit one of Americas purdiest places.
6/26 Fresno - Victorville - El Cajon. Back through King's Canyon NP and Sequoia NP, drop friends off in Victorville.
6/27 El Cajon - Yuma. Hand over some stuff to friends in San Diego, continue on with mah looooonesome part of the trip.
6/28 Yuma - Phoenix. Visit Yuma Territorial Prison and Yuma Quartermaster Park to get some history & culture. Maybe hit Phoenix early enough to visit AZ statehouse.
6/29 Phoenix - Albuquerque. Visit Barry Goldwater's gravesite. Continue on through some lovely national forest lands and Petrified Forest.
6/30 Albuquerque. Drive up to Sandia Peak, maybe a stroll around old town and Albuquerque museum.
7/1 Albuquerque - Santa Fe. Palace of the Governors, New Mexico State Museum.
7/2 Santa Fe. Bandelier National Monument, Valles Caldera.
7/3 Santa Fe - Farmington. Chaco Culture National Historical Place.
7/4 Farmington. Roundtrip to see Durango, Mesa Verde and Canyons of the Ancients.
7/5 Farmington - St George. See Canyon de Chelly and Horseshoe Bend.
7/6 St George - Carson City. Drive past Area 51.
7/7 Carson City. Nevada State Museum and Nevada State Capitol.
7/8 Carson City - Yreka. Some lovely scenery, including Mount Shasta.
7/9 Yreka - Crater Lake - Eureka. More lovely scenery in Oregon and Northern California.
7/10 Eureka - Red Bluff. Several purdy areas in the forests between I-5 and the Pacific Ocean.
7/11 Red Bluff - Sacramento. Old Sacramento and Sacramento History Museum.
7/12 Sacramento, Sutter’s Fort and California Museum.
7/13 Sacramento - Palo Alto.
7/14 Palo Alto.
7/15 Palo Alto - Fresno.
7/16 Fresno. Meeting up with friends.
7/17 Fresno - Three Rivers. Had in mah rental car in Fresno in the afternon. Meeting up with yet more friends.
7/18 Three Rivers. Doing Sequoia and King's Canyon again.
7/19 Three Rivers - Mammoth Lakes. Driving up to Yosemite.
7/20 Mammoth Lakes roundtrip. Doing Yosemite in depth.
7/21 Mammoth Lakes - Carson City. Doing the Lake Tahoe area.
7/22 Carson City - Klamath Falls.
7/23 Klamath Falls - Crater Lake Lodge. Doing Crater Lake. Again. Because I can.
7/24 Crater Lake Lodge - Twin Falls. Drive through rural Oregon. Should be interesting.
7/25 Twin Falls - Jackson - Gardiner. See the Shoshone Falls area and then the Tetons. Might suffer from purdiness overload.
7/26 - 7/28 Gardiner. Yellowstone ad nauseam for three days.
7/29 Gardiner - Kalispell. Up to Glacier Park through rural Montana.
7/30 Kalispell - Dillon. Glacier National Park.
7/31 Dillon - St George. Long ass trasportation day.
8/1 St George roundtrip. Bryce NP & Zion NP.
8/2 St George - Inglewood. Wave goodbye to my friends.
8/3 Inglewood - London. Fly home late in the evening.
8/4 London - Oslo. Touchdown late in the evening.

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