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> Staring next week I am going for a 4 to 6 days trip from Niagara Falls
> (Toronto) to Los Angeles. Please advice:
>
> What do you recommend for stop spot in each day? For example, end of
> first day: Chicago or Omaha? Etc.?
>
> What are the most recommended area you suggest I go off-road or spend
> few more hours and visit, I mean really worth to delay and see that
> city or nature wonders? Big Cities in My way are Chicago, Omaha,
> Denver, Maybe Salt Lake City or maybe Kansas City and Las Vegas,
> right?
>
> I think I start driving everyday around 6:00 to 8:00 am and stop when
> it gets dark and few half an hour or one hour stops during day? Any
> better idea? Is this plan good?
>
> And mainly sleeping in Best Western Hotels along the trip? Any better
> idea? Is this good?
>
> If you did this trip before or have more insights please helped me
> what were your extra experiences and how did you implement your plan?
Well, road distance from Quebec to Los Angeles is about 3015 miles according
to
http://www.filmquebec.com/index.php?page=distance_en&lang=en
and from Quebec to Toronto (same source) is about 468 miles. Subtracting
one from the other to get a rough handle on the Toronto - Los Angeles route,
we get
about 2550 miles. Say you spend 6 days, 5 nights on the road and drive
7:00 am to 6:00 pm with 2 half hour stops and one one hour stop each of
those 6 days. That's about 9 hours of straight driving, no meandering or
sightseeing. The numbers say that you need to average - average, mind you -
around 425 miles a day or about 47 miles per hour. Now that's do-able. But
that's probably straight line, whatever straight line route that is. And
little, if any, time to loiter/sightsee.
Let's look at your proposed routing:
Niagara Falls (Canada) - Chicago 450 miles
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/distances.html?n=64
Chicago - Omaha 433 miles
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/distances.html?n=64
Omaha - Denver 485 miles
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/distances.html?n=75
Denver - Salt Lake City 597 miles
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/distances.html?n=75
Salt Lake City - Los Angeles 583 miles
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/distances.html?n=137
Total is 2548 miles...essentially equal to that 2550 miles.
But six straight days of driving 425 miles each day alone is a bit on the
ambitious side.
On the other hand a 4 day, 3 night trip over the same route implies about
630 miles a day or about a 70 mile an hour average. That is downright
ambitious...definitely no time for sightseeing. And look out for the state
police/highway patrol watching for speedsters.
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