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driving across country in 4 days!
Sheila Northend 22 April 2005 04:35:10
	Hi All. I have 4 days to get to Santa Cruz from Buffalo. Any advice on the best schedule? I plan to take I80 but my question is whether or not to plan stops and motels in advance or just wing it? Maybe set a few bench marks? Never done this before. Will have 2 drivers and luckily a new car. Any thoughts are appreciated! Sheila
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Rich Piehl 22 April 2005 05:56:53 [ permanent link ]
	sheila_northend@yahoo.com wrote:> Hi All. I have 4 days to get to Santa Cruz from Buffalo. Any advice on> the best schedule? I plan to take I80 but my question is whether or not> to plan stops and motels in advance or just wing it? Maybe set a few> bench marks? Never done this before. Will have 2 drivers and luckily a> new car. Any thoughts are appreciated!> Sheila> What time of year? If it's before mid- to late- May you shouldn't have too much trouble finding a motel without a reservation. Unless you just happen to pick a town that happens to be having a big festival, or a large wedding. Advice would be when you decide to stop go with slightly smaller towns. Generally, you'll get lower rates and will be less likely to run into a convention taking up all the rooms. Also pick up a Mobil Travel Guide or similar book. As you're traveling if thinking about stopping in a few hours find a town about that far down the road. Use the Travel Guide to check out the lodging in the town for price, rating, amenities, etc. Once you pick one or two use a cell phone or pay phone to call them and verify the price. Then ask them if they're loaded with vacant rooms or if they're about to sell their last one. Nothing worse than being tired, getting your heart set on stopping, only to find out there's no room at the inn. Hope this help. Enjoy the drive. You're about to see some very beautiful country. Take care, Rich God bless the USA -- With all of our running and all of our cunning If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane. Jimmy Buffett
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Paul DeRocco 22 April 2005 06:19:18 [ permanent link ]
	<sheila_northend@yahoo.com> wrote> Hi All. I have 4 days to get to Santa Cruz from Buffalo. Any advice on> the best schedule? I plan to take I80 but my question is whether or not> to plan stops and motels in advance or just wing it? Maybe set a few> bench marks? Never done this before. Will have 2 drivers and luckily a> new car. Any thoughts are appreciated! Four days is pretty easy with two drivers. As to motels, I've never had too much trouble just winging it. One suggestion: if you're near a city at the end of the day, always stop on the far side of it, so you're driving outbound during morning rush hour. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailtoderocco@ix.netcom.com
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Richard Kaszeta 22 April 2005 08:26:33 [ permanent link ]
	sheila_northend@yahoo.com writes: Hi All. I have 4 days to get to Santa Cruz from Buffalo. Any advice on> the best schedule? I plan to take I80 but my question is whether or not> to plan stops and motels in advance or just wing it? Maybe set a few> bench marks? Never done this before. Will have 2 drivers and luckily a> new car. Any thoughts are appreciated! My SO has done similar (Lebanon, NH to Santa Monica) in 5 fairly easy days, a single driver with decent but not ridiculuous stamina[1]: The plan was I-40 (this was a five weeks ago, so snow was a possibility (in fact, a reality, see below)) in 4.5 days: Day 1 (partial day): Leave work at 5pm and drive to Wilkes-Barre, PA Day 2: Indianapolis, IN Day 3: Joplin, MO (with a multi-hour stop in St Lous to do the arch) Day 4: Albuquerque, or perhaps as far as Winslow or Flagstaff. Day 5: Santa Monica In actuality, once they got to New Mexico road closures due to blowing snow actually forced them to I-10, so it was really Day 4: Rosewell, NM Day 5: Mesa, AZ (free night at relatives) Day 6 (short day): Santa Monica Now that it's 6 weeks later, I might stick to I-70 the whole way from St Louis westward to shave a good amount of time and effort off. [1] Myself, I've done Mesa, AZ to Ft Worth, TX nonstop twice, and Washington, DC to Minneapolis, MN nonstop, with just myself and a cooler of Starbuck's Frappucino's. I don't recommend it, since after hour 22 I started hallucinating about Incan Monkey Gods. -- Richard W Kaszeta rich@kaszeta.org http://www.kaszeta.org/rich
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Elaich 22 April 2005 08:32:25 [ permanent link ]
	sheila_northend@yahoo.com wrote in news:1114130110.692003.11700@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com: Hi All. I have 4 days to get to Santa Cruz from Buffalo. Any advice on> the best schedule? I plan to take I80 but my question is whether or not> to plan stops and motels in advance or just wing it? Maybe set a few> bench marks? Never done this before. Will have 2 drivers and luckily a> new car. Any thoughts are appreciated! I-80? You're going to spend a good part of the first day driving north to Sacramento just to get to I-80. I-80 is DEADLY boring. 400 miles of Nevada that never changes - 400 miles of dull brown hills in Wyoming - 400 miles of milo fields in Nebraska. From LA, I'd take I-15 north to I-70, I-70 to Indianapolis, I-69 north to I-80/90, and I-90 to Buffalo. The scenery on 70 is far more varied than on 80. With 2 drivers, I'd just drive until you get cabin fever before stopping. My son and I made a similar trip and we only stopped one night. We just flip flopped drivers and slept when we could. -- "No sports writers were harmed during the making of this post. And what I want to know is - why not?"
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Jake Brzeskiewicz 22 April 2005 11:20:42 [ permanent link ]
	elaich wrote:> I-80? You're going to spend a good part of the first day driving north to> Sacramento just to get to I-80.> I-80 is DEADLY boring. 400 miles of Nevada that never changes - 400 miles> of dull brown hills in Wyoming - 400 miles of milo fields in Nebraska.> From LA, I'd take I-15 north to I-70, I-70 to Indianapolis, I-69 north to> I-80/90, and I-90 to Buffalo. The scenery on 70 is far more varied than on> 80. They're starting in Santa Cruz, not Santa Barbara. Going through LA or even down to CA 58 (to I-15) would be way longer. Who cares if I-80 is 'boring', it's faster. That's the goal here, speed.
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SP Cook 23 April 2005 02:42:36 [ permanent link ]
	sheila_northend@yahoo.com wrote:> Hi All. I have 4 days to get to Santa Cruz from Buffalo. Any advice the best schedule? I plan to take I80 but my question is whether or to plan stops and motels in advance or just wing it? Maybe set a few> bench marks? Never done this before. Will have 2 drivers and luckily new car. Any thoughts are appreciated! 1 - Check that route. I can think of several better routes. 2 - Motels. The thing that I do is just grab a couple of the printed guides for a few chains, and an atlas. A few hours before you need to stop, just use a cell phone to make a reservation a few hours down the road. If you have access to AAA's or other guides that list non-chain motels, then take those too. Remember that motels in rural areas are far cheeper. There is no reason to pay a city rate if you are just driving through anyway. Some states offer a reservations service at welcome centers. 3 - Stop at simple exits in rural areas. You can spend 20 minutes just buying gas in somebody else's commuter gridlock. If you see a stop light free simple exit with a gas station, take advantage of it. 4 - Buy a radar detector. The best investment you will ever make. 5 - Remember that the USA between the Rockies and the Mississippi is made up of vast distances of unpopulated land. Watch that gas gage and keep track of when you pass a town with food and lodging how far the next one is. SP Cook
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