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I just made the drive from northern Virginia to Albuquerque and back via I 40. Not a bad trip...but I was in a hurry this time and didn't stray from the interstate (drove straight through each way after a stop at my vacation house in Asheville). If you go south down 301 through southern MD, you can see Washington's birthplace and quite a few revolutionary war and civil war sites if interested.

Eventually you get on on I95/85 to 40, you go through Fredericksburg (if you choose or you can bypass on 301 and hit I95 just north of Richmond), Richmond, Petersburg (civil war stuff), then near Raleigh/Durham research triangle area where you hit I40 to the mountains (Asheville), then Nashville, Memphis, Little Rock, OK City, Amarillo and then the NM mountains into Albuquerque. From NM to LA, you can see a lot of Arizona (Grand Canyon) and Nevada (Las Vegas/Hoover Dam, etc.). Shelby Museum in LV is cool.