Varrrrrrroooooooom!'s Journal (original) (raw)

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I'm going to be moving from DC to Seattle in April of next year. I've plotted my route, and I'd like some input on what's worth seeing/tasting/buying/smelling(!) along the way...

So with that in mind, I ask you, the road-trippers of LJ:

What can you recommend along my route?

- From VA on 95, to 495, to 270, to 70 (It's home, I doubt I'll stop much on that stretch)

- Through West VA and Maryland on 68 (past Hagerstown and Cumberland in MD and Morgantown in WV)

- Up 79 past Washington, PA to 70

- 70 through far western PA, Wheeling WV, Ohio (past Columbus), and into Indiana.

- 74 from Indianapolis through Illinois (past Bloomington, Peoria, Moline/Quad Cities)

- 80 from the Quad Cities, past Iowa City and Des Moines

- 29 up to Sioux City and Siox Falls

- 90 across South Dakota, past Mitchell (Corn Palace!), Rapid City and Sturgis; then up into the Northeast corner of Wyoming (Gillette and Sheridan)

- Staying on 90 through Montana (Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Missoula) and past Coeur d'Alene in ID; then through Washington from Spokane to Seattle.

I'm looking for cheap but safe motels, good diners and local eateries, little tourist traps I may not be aware of, stuff like that... Thanks in advance!!!

(cross-posted to my journal, iloveroadtrips, roadjunkie, seattle_ho, and x_country_drive - sorry!)