[Seahawk]

A mental bump, since I was thinking about this today driving home to have lunch with my son, in his last week in HS.

We are working through pretty much the same trip, although we may not get as far north as Seattle.

We have driven across the country together twice already and are looking forward to what is probably our last, "just the two of us" trip.

We'll be in a 1999 Tacoma Trd, so slot tracking the gorge is not a priority.

I don't know how many days you have to do this, which is key. Or if you'll be solo or not.

About fourteen years ago my best friend from college moved from San Fran to Baltimore. I flew out to drive one of his cars back, he was in another car. He had seven days to make the trip. He had never driven across the country before.

My recommendation to him then, and to you now, is to take your time getting east of the Continental Divide. On the trip those many years ago we did the Route 50 jog across Nevada, spent the night in Ely, gambled and stayed up very late.

Second day we did Arches, dicked around the western slope and had a ball.

Third day we had fun driving some amazing roads to Durango and stayed up too late again.

Fourth day we get the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and since I was active duty in those days, we played golf and in the late afternoon then stayed at the Q.

Fifth day we headed east with a vengance...we make it all the way to Effingham, Ill, (or as my friend dubbed it, Effing, Fukingham), 14 hours of interstate madness.

The day we enjoy the ride through the hills of West Virginia and play golf again. We ease into Maryland the next day.

One big day on the interstate, and I have done two to compress a six day trip, makes the experience west of the Rockies fantastic.