On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 12:47:07 -0400, Automatic digest processor wrote:

>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

I suggest you spend several days in Custer State Park, S. Dak.  We went from DC to Cali and really didn't find anything interesting until S. Dak except for
the dunes in Indiana...but that was only for a day.  Around S. Dak you can go to the Black Hillls, Custer SP (hot showers, Mt Rushmore, Crazy Horse
Monument.  We spent about 5 days there.  Look for gas...we found a lot of 85 octane...our Mz Magic did not like it at all so we had to be careful.  For
example, the round trip to Wounded Knee we missed the best gas and found that most of the gas on the reservation was 85 so we turned around and
missed Wounded Knee...which is only very small monument btw.

Don't miss the Eisenhower tunnel on I-70 through Colorado.

--peace--
    stu