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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 328632" data-attributes="member: 2">Well, in four or five weeks, you can see anything you want if you don't mind driving an obscene amount in the mean time. Go grab a US map; I've traveled to about 40 of the 50 states, and things I especially love include:- Staying in Flagstaff, Arizona, and making day trips to Sedona and the Grand Canyon. Both are absolutely beautiful, and different than anything I've seen in Europe or the eastern US. If you like that sort of thing, do some hiking. Stay in a B&B in Sedona for a night, and drive down to Winslow Arizona to stay in <a href="http://www.laposada.org/" target="_blank">La Posada</a>. I've traveled a lot, and this is one of my favorite buildings in the country. And cheap for a hotel, too!  While in Winslow, drive out and see the Painted Desert nearby.  A cheesy itinerary of Flagstaff is <a href="http://www.arizona-bed-breakfast.com/vacation-planner/3-flagstaffarea.htm" target="_blank">here.</a>- I've never been, but Utah has some incredible canyons and rock formations that I'd love to see.- New Orleans is fantastic, as long as you don't go in summer.  For the love of God, don't go in summer. Shudder.  In spring, late fall or winter it's a fascinating city with amusing tourists and my favorite cuisine. Heck, if I could live anywhere just on the basis of the food, it would be here - although I'd be one fat little Piratecat. New Orleans isn't the safest city in the country, so use good judgement when exploring.- If you've read "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil", go to Savannah Georgia.- Las Vegas Nevada is a city dedicated to the song of human greed. It's cool, in a fundamentally disturbing sort of way. Go there, have fun, don't lose too much money, then go somewhere that there aren't a lot of people. An evening drive through the desert might make sense.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  You'll need the solitude!- Drive up the coast of California. Hug the coast road between LA and San Francisco, driving through Big Sur and some astonishing vistas. See San Francisco and the wine country north of it, then head east to the giant sequoia forests and Yosemite national park. Truly gorgeous.Anyways, that's just a start (I haven't mentioned Chicago, or Seattle, or the rugged emptiness of Montana, or the Florida Keys, or about two dozen other cool places) but I hope it helps.</blockquote>

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