To all the experienced fans of wanderlust I come seeking your input. In the initial stages of planning a cross country summer road trip. Left coast to right coast of the lower 48. Interstates are fundamentally banned. What would be your dream photographic roadie route from the pacific to the atlantic? Premium to all homage of Warren Oates, i.e. two lane blacktop. Mixing and matching different highways allowed as long as it more or less goes west to east not north to south. Any and all suggestions welcome of can't miss spots. Photographically no limitations. I enjoy any and all possibilities on a trip like this. Lets give the trip a ten day time limit. Bonus points for a good diner pie suggestions. If I've left anything out put it in for me.
thanks,
Zebra
Roger,
Above is the OP. The poster is expressing a positive interest in a trip and seeking recommendations...
"What would be your dream photographic roadie route from the pacific to the atlantic? Premium to all homage of Warren Oates, i.e. two lane blacktop....
"Any and all suggestions welcome of can't miss spots. Photographically no limitations. I enjoy any and all possibilities on a trip like this....."
To which you, unlike the other respondents here, chose to present negative cautions.
And now you continue on and on....
And again! I said that I had come across all too many places where the food was bad, especially in the South, etc. That is not a blanket condemnation, unless you are determined to read it as such -- as you are, and as your countless references to me as anti-American bear witness.
Yes, I focused on what to avoid. Consider the possibility that the rest was automatically assumed to be enjoyable or at least interesting, otherwise I'd have said 'Don't bother', and given reasons for not bothering.
The point of a road trip for most people is that you don't really know what you are going to find. Avoid the bad stuff, and the rest will fall into place. My understanding was that the OP did not want an orderly procession from one tourist trap or beauty spot to the next, staying in chain motels. I tried to give the best advice I could, based on my own 8 trips.
You, and a few others who are determined to find insults to your country in everything I say, didn't like the advice. Tough. I do rather wish I had not tried to be helpful, but then, you probably won't believe that I was trying to be helpful because you are permanently disposed to believe the worst of me. There really is very little point in our continuing to correspond, except, as I said earlier, that if I don't respond to your attacks -- and they are attacks -- some people might mistakenly think I have no answers to your arguments.
R.
You can be assured that no one thinks that you have no answer to my "arguments".
You always have the last word in any thread - as you will have here.
But, FYI, my wife too is from the South (Memphis, TN) - and if she had you here right now - you'd be "attacked" with far more than I, a Yankee, could ever give you. [Oh, and put your stereotype aside - she's a good Greek-American - you see - we are all over the place from all over!]
And now, Roger, to spare the folks anymore of me answering you anymore on this one, I will leave the thread to you.
Hasta la vista!
BTW: Had any good Mexican lately? Oh, and have you checked out the Vietnamese in Tucson? Oh, and did you hear that the Japanese Minister of Trade is all upset because he went into a sushi restaurant in Denver and found out they also offered Korean BBQ? Seems he felt it was "inauthentic". True factoid....Google it.