you could try Hwy 50 across Nevada - know as the 'lonliest highway in
America.'  Wide,. wide open country.  You can usually see 50 miles ahead at
least.  Collect some sage for purification rituals, smelling, or burning on
your wood stove. Very healing.
 Heck, don't get me started.
Go over Tioga Pass from Lee Vining , Ca on Hwy 395........and go into
Yosemite Park that way.
It's beyond spectacular. The most car accessible awesome areas are Toulome
Meadows just west of Tioga Pass........
the Valley floor where El Cap and all the tourists are..........and you
really should drive up to Glacier Point.
I hope the smoke is gone.
they just had a serious bunch of fires right outside Yosemeite park, on the
west side. Like last week.
Even shut down the park for a while I think.
Go to Awanee Lodge in the Valley for breakfast or a meal. It's the kind of
huge old lodge built out of stone, with 50 foot ceilings in the big room
with giant fireplaces at both ends.  It's old, elegant, etc. Some of the
waiters and people working there are really dirt bag climbers that live to
do big wall climbing there.  It's a mecca for serious rock
climbers.........they come from all over the world to climb in Yosemite
Valley.   Up on El Cap ............a 3,000 foot rock
face............climbers look like ants up there. Tiny black dots.
scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "pickle vanagon" <greenvanagon@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:26 PM
Subject: Cross-country trip

> It looks like we're going to be able to take our planned cross country
> trip
> in "pickle" this month.  Gas prices aren't cooperating, but it looks like
> our schedules are!
>
> We're hoping to start (from NJ) about week from now, heading west.  I have
> a
> lot of places in mind that I'd like to go, but if people have "favorite
> places" they went to somewhere in between NJ and Cali, I'd love to hear
> about them.  Also, any long-trip-in-a-vanagon related advice is welcome!
>
> I'll update the list on our route once we get going...
>
> -Wes
> '83 1.9l westy