USA Itineraries

Day-by-day USA Itineraries with real drive times and honest all-in budgets.

Last spring, I packed my three kids, my wife, and a suitcase full of sunscreen into a minivan and set off for a week…

I'll never forget the way the sun hit the Colorado River that first morning of our family road trip. We had just driven for…

I remember the first time I stayed at an all-inclusive resort in the U.S. — it was a week in the Florida Keys, and…

I remember the chaos of loading up the family van for a cross-country road trip, my youngest child clutching a toy dinosaur that didn’t…

The first time I landed in Las Vegas, I was breathless — not from the 10-hour flight, but from the sheer audacity of the…

There’s nothing quite like the joy of watching your child’s eyes light up at the sight of a dolphin leaping through the waves or…

I still remember the look on my daughter’s face when we arrived at the small coastal town of Narragansett, Rhode Island, after a 2-hour…

I remember the first time my family packed up the car and headed to the mountains — the smell of pine in the air,…

When I packed my family’s car for our first road trip to Utah’s red rock canyons, I had no idea that the journey would…

I remember the first time I packed for a road trip with my toddler — my suitcase was so full it felt like it…