Washington DC is a great city to visit because so many of its attractions are free. However, there are also some excellent premium attractions. When visiting we use the Go Washington DC Card to get discounts and save money when going to multiple attractions. Overview The Go Washington DC Card is part of the Leisure…
Every time we visit Washington, D.C. we do a car tour of the area. Our favorite Washington, D.C. drive is a quick tour through the heart of the nation’s capital. This drive is basically a simple drive along the National Mall and the area stretching from the Potomac River and Lincoln Memorial to the U.S….
Chattanooga Tennessee is one of those places that rarely shows up in national travel guides. However, we have come here three times in the past decade and look forward to more visits. This is our Chattanooga Travel Guide. Overview Chattanooga sits on a bend of the Tennessee River on the border with Georgia. Above the…
Fun Diego Family has been on multiple road trips across the United States. This is a wonderful way to see the country. We thought we would share several different routes from trips driving across the United States. Overview Of course, living in San Diego we generally start in the West and head East. Usually we…
Our last day of driving across the United States was technically only a 5-hour drive. However, adding in a huge bike ride on the Creeper Trail and a massive traffic jam it turned out to be much longer. This drive took us up the western edge of Virginia. We spent the night in Abingdon, VA…
Tennessee is by the far the longest state on our drive across the United States. We started in the far southwestern corner and drove the entire length of the state to the northeast corner at Bristol. Our day ended right across the Tennessee/Virginia border in Abingdon, VA. I lived in Nashville for two years and…
Day five of our drive across the United States was our shortest drive. We toured Memphis most of the day before driving the short 3-hour trip to Nashville. Memphis has a great deal of sites to see, especially if you are into music. Driving across the Mississippi on the I-40 we were intrigued by the…
Oklahoma City was a new place for us, so we wanted to take some time to explore. Day 4 of our drive across the United States was only 7 hours to Memphis so we were not in a rush. Oklahoma gets a bad rap, but we found Oklahoma City to be surprisingly hip. We wanted…
On day three of our trip we made up much of the time we lost in our Grand Canyon detour. We shot all the way across New Mexico, Texas and into the middle of Oklahoma. This is 11 hours of driving, but we still made time to see plenty of cool sites. We got an…
Day two of our driving across the United States trip was all about exploring. In terms of heading across country we made little progress. However, we got to see some great sites, most notably the Grand Canyon. We started the day in Williams, Arizona. Williams is a small tourist town that is a prime gateway…