THE ITINERARY

We've mapped out a very rough route based on sites and people we'd like to visit.  Of course, once we're on the road our itinerary is bound to change, so consider the list below a starting point. 

·         Mill Run, PA (Fallingwater)
·         Pittsburgh, PA
·         Cleveland, OH (Rock'nRoll  Hall of Fame)
·         Chicago, IL
·         Dyersville, IA (Field of Dreams site)
·         Omaha, NB
·         Sioux Falls, SD
·         Badlands National Park
·         Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Keystone, SD
·         Devil's Tower, WY
·         Garryowen, MT (Little Bighorn Nat'l Monument)
·         Yellowstone National Park, WY
·         Jackson Hole, WY
·         Arco, ID (Craters of the Moon National Monument)
·         Walla Walla, WA
·         Seattle, WA
·         Tillamook, OR
·         Eureka, CA
·         Lake Tahoe, CA
·         Yosemite National Park, Wawona, CA
·         Bonneville Salt Flats
·         Salt Lake City, UT
·         Bryce Canyon National Park, Tropic, UT
·         Zion National Park, UT
·         Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon Village, AZ
·         Four Corners Monument, New Mexico Highway 597, Shiprock, NM
·         Mesa Verde National Park, CO
·         Rocky Mountain National Park, CO
·         Denver, CO
·         Pueblo, CO
·         Taos, NM
·         Santa Fe, NM
·         Albuquerque, NM
·         Roswell, NM
·         Carlsbad Caverns National Park, NM
·         Odessa, TX
·         Austin, TX
·         Shreveport, LA
·         Little Rock, AR
·         Memphis, TN
·         Nashville, TN
·         Atlanta, GA
·         Charleston, SC
·         Chapel Hill, NC
·         Richmond, VA
·         Washington, DC
·         Philadelphia, PA
·         Maplewood, NJ

T minus 5 Days

TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 25

It's just five days until we roll out of Maplewood on our cross-country odyssey...in our recently acquired 2010 Honda Odyssey.  Aytan's cousin Toby will be joining us for some or all of the trip, depending on how much of us and the road he can tolerate.

Most of the gear has been purchased and the CDs have been ripped (music snob that I am, compressed music on an iPod just won't do).  In terms of planning, well, let's just say we're leaving much of that to when we're on the road.  The only stop that is certain at this point is the tour at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater masterpiece, outside of Mill Run, PA, on Monday, July 1, for which I purchased tickets last week. Other than that, we're winging much of it.