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So basically my husband wants to bring his car up to chicago, Illinois. His car is in the tricities (wa) right now so we are going to drop the dogs off in Seattle, he's going to meet me there and we are going to drive his car to Chicago. Then we are going to stay in Chicago for a few days before I fly back to Seattle, get the dogs and my car and drive home. It's going to be mid June, so right in the middle of summer. I really kind of wish I could bring the dogs, but it would just stress Artimis out and Talon is a bit large to easily find accomadation and he doesn't really like being in the car for long periods of time.
So, I know it's a pretty wide area, but thought I'd ask to see if chazzers had any recomendations on some good sight seeing spots along the route? We haven't narrowed down the exact route yet, but he'll have at least 10 days off, possibly more, and I'll have 15 or so. So we figure if it takes about 34 hrs to drive straight through (google maps), we could spend a max of 6 days on the drive sight seeing/camping etc, and still have at least 4 days for him to show me around Chicago. That is also at the absolute minimum, he may be getting more days off, so up to 15 (my work days off) is the number of days we have. We plan on doing some driving at night and switching off drivers for at least one day, which would give us more time to do things.
We were thinking of taking a day to see yellowstone, but I think that's really the only thing we could really find right now. If there's nothing too interesting we may just book it to chicago and spend more time there.
But any suggestions on trip advice or places that we should check out (nature, atttractions, parks, food, anything really), or things we should bring or make sure of would be very welcomed
So, I know it's a pretty wide area, but thought I'd ask to see if chazzers had any recomendations on some good sight seeing spots along the route? We haven't narrowed down the exact route yet, but he'll have at least 10 days off, possibly more, and I'll have 15 or so. So we figure if it takes about 34 hrs to drive straight through (google maps), we could spend a max of 6 days on the drive sight seeing/camping etc, and still have at least 4 days for him to show me around Chicago. That is also at the absolute minimum, he may be getting more days off, so up to 15 (my work days off) is the number of days we have. We plan on doing some driving at night and switching off drivers for at least one day, which would give us more time to do things.
We were thinking of taking a day to see yellowstone, but I think that's really the only thing we could really find right now. If there's nothing too interesting we may just book it to chicago and spend more time there.
But any suggestions on trip advice or places that we should check out (nature, atttractions, parks, food, anything really), or things we should bring or make sure of would be very welcomed