First, I want to thank everyone that responded!!! We have a lot to think about in terms of where we will stop.
And L&C, I'll talk to him about taking an alternate through Ohio.
I think we're going to do something like this... where we try to get to yellowstone as fast as possible and than slowly drive back through Canada.
(Keeping in mind though, that we'll be playing a lot of this by ear and seeing how we feel... so this could change a lot too.)
We can drive through Kalamazoo going this way, but we'd have to either hit Zombie Burger OR drive farther north into MN... and I'm not sure everything on his "must see" list either. So we will see on that.
I am totally making him go to the reptile place as it's not even out of the way of our route really, and it's close to Mt. Rushmore... so depending on how crowded that is I may totally do the tourist thing and go see it!
And Eddie, I think we're going to save the PA stuff for when we do shorter vacations. It only takes us a few hours to drive to PA so that's a great thing for when we have a free weekend, which will be much easier to find again.
I'm just SO EXCITED about this trip... first our longest vacation was less than a week(and to go see my mom!:rofl1
... we mostly only do 2-3 day things. And the second and most awesome thing.... I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO VISIT THE NORTHWEST!!! I've been Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, europe.... but NEVER northwest.... SOOOOOOOOOO excited!!!!