We just did this trip. This is my thought - we took a week to do just Grand
Canyon/Bryce/Zion/Vegas - and if you have to see it all then the best place
to us was Zion for hiking, Bryce to take a quick look at, Grand Canyon by
tour-bus (or fly over it) and Vegas just enough time to go down the strip
and see the inside of a few spectacular hotels. Yosemite is an awful long
drive to just see for a few minutes and it is so gorgeous you really have to
spend more time than that there! San Fran over LA for me too - native of
So. Cal. myself. Enjoy- take time to hike if you can. Oh- drive time
between Zion and Bryce is a 1 1/2 hours, Zion and Vegas under 3 hours maybe
even less than that (cant remember exactly!)
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Lori
"Fakhina Sohl" wrote in message
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> My wife and I have a week in late September to "play tourist" in the
> USA (from Australia).
>
> We've both been to NYC and other North Eastern parts; I've been to
> Detroit often enough to know never to go there by choice (ie twice -
> sorry to any Michigan folk out there); we're spending the week prior
> with my sister-in-law in Minneapolis (and surrounds)...so we're
> thinking South West.
>
> The loose plan is to fly in to Las Vegas, get a car, see the "Must
> See" sites (Zion, Bryce's and Grand Canyons, Death Valley etc), then
> on to San Francisco via Yosemite. Then fly to LA and back home.
>
> What advice or suggestions does the group have? Destinations, routes,
> accommodation, cheap on-line booking sites...
>
> We're 30-ish, fit and active, reasonably well-travelled and
> adventurous, and don't need anything extravagant. We're much more
> interested in natural scenery and history than flashing city lights
> (I'd bypass Las Vegas altogether, but it's a convenient airport...and
> while we're there we may as well _be_there_).
>
> A double room in a hostel or cheap hotel would be fine (we're only
> going to sleep there, and cheap accommodation can easily be balanced
> by splashing out on more worthwhile extravagances). I found
> reference, in an old post to this group, of Motel 6. They look fine on
> the website (a million times better than some of the dumps we stayed
> at in Spain!)...although I'm a bit concerned by the "pets allowed"
> thing. We can afford not to stay in a stinky dog kennel. What other
> chains are at that end of the market?
>
> If we're driving point-to-point, I assume we're pretty much restricted
> to the big-name car rental companies; otherwise I wouldn't mind a
> rent-a-wreck style of operator (I know cars well enough to stay/get
> out of trouble). We'll just get a cheap econo-box. Recommendations?
>
> One week from Vegas to 'Frisco. Obviously, more time would be better,
> but it isn't available. We're not afraid of long drives, but don't
> want to spend our entire holiday behind the wheel. I did a weekend
> trip from Detroit to Toronto/Niagara not long ago, and once drove 3000
> miles from one side of Australia to the other in 5 days...but She has
> a slightly different idea of sightseeing to mine ;-)
>
> Over to you guys...
>
> fs
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