OT: Roadtripping the USA Here and Now!, Travel updates on the last pg.. Options

[pillay2k]

Hi all i'm coming to the US!! Well me and my best mate are planning a road trip which we have been hoping to do for some years now. We are really looking for sights and people to meet along the way. Our schedule is quite tight with many one night stops but we are hoping to cover as much ground as possible in the 6 weeks we have. Got to see a few 914 on my travels too... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/santa_smiley.gif)
A link of our planned route can be found by throwing this in google maps! (Cant get it to link...)

**UPDATE**
from:los angeles to:san francisco to:South Lake Tahoe, CA to:Las Vegas to:Flagstaff to:beaver, UT to:Park City to:rock springs to:rapid city to:denver to:poncha springs to:pagosa springs to:Albuquerque to:amarillo to:oklahoma city to:dallas to:houston to:new orleans to:panama city to:Atlanta to:Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina to:Washington to:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to:New york



Any comments on the route and places we should be stopping or staying at (very limited budget!!) would be great. Basics are heading out 2nd March returning home 13 April. Major stops are NY, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, LA and Orlando for at least 3 days each.

Cheers,
Fabian & Nick ( (IMG:style_emoticons/default/drunk.gif) )

[ConeDodger]

While in Salt Lake City be sure to meet up with Eric Shea and others who are local. In Las Vegas be sure to make time to see Renegade's operations. Lots of 914 "options" to be seen there. In LA meet up with the NARP (Not A Real Porsche) gang.

In New Orleans be sure to ride the street cars and go to Bourbon Street. The Garden District is great for old mansion viewing. You are pretty safe on Bourbon Street, well except for your liver. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/drunk.gif) I have personally never seen so much drinking going on with out a fight in my life. Watch the girls walking down the streets because they show their titties for beads thrown from the balconies. You don't say when you will be there but Mardi Gras is around that time. The music is amazing. Blues, jazz, zydeco, it is all there. Be sure to go to a cemetary. New Orleans is at or below sea level so bodies are buried above ground. The monuments and gargoyles are truly amazing. As someone has already said, be sure to stay in the tourist areas. Before Hurricane Katrina it was pretty safe to walk around especially in the daytime but the devastation from the hurricane has made for some desperate people who will do things they might not have thought of before the hurricane.

Take a tour at NASA when in Houston. I was assigned for a time to NASA while I was in the military and if you guys are engineers you will appreciate the amazing tour at Johnson Space Center.