Road Trip, MA - CA, Ideas?

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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You do know that Las Vegas is in Nevada, not California, right?

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No, he's good to go

[Matt Flynn]

get a 5-weight fly rod, 5-wt floating line (6-weight if you must), tapered leaders and a bunch of #18 caddis, a humpy or two, a couple prince nymphs, etc. drive straight to yellowstone. see yellowstone. don't pet the bears. go a couple miles south of Mack's Inn and get the scones with honey butter at the little diner. drive north to the Madison River. float it. repeat. repeat. repeat. the sourdough pancakes at the Ennis Cafe in Ennis are pretty good too.

if you stay long enough you will catch the salmonfly hatch on the Madison. better fishing there is not.

oh and the Virginia City Players in Virginia City, Montana are fun. there's a candy shop across the street that's worth a look. they used to hold the rattlesnake roundup there too.


back to your trip: go to yellowstone. if you go the southern route there are anastasi villages to see (new mexico and surroundings), the caverns at the arizona border, the arizona meteor crater, the grand canyon and the hoover dam (pretty good tour). don't miss Cirque du Soleil's Mystere in Vegas.

matt

[CrashPat]

If you want to see Yellowstone it means taking I90 for a ways, in which case you should play some 2-10 spread in Deadwood, SD. The advantage to this would be that you get to avoid driving through Nebraska on I80. ugh. Deadwood is a place every poker player should visit at least once, go and play at Saloon 10, sawdust on the floors, live band, just all sorts of fun.

[cookperson]

i kind of don't like fishing because when i was young and tried it i got a fishing hook stuck in my hair. also i got spoiled fishing in a clear lake where people swim, i could see all the fishes and there were a lot of them. now that i can't see my fishies when i fish it is not so fun. (danny)

[Los Feliz Slim]

I have done this drive and the most memorable place I went was Telluride, CO. It's incredibly beautiful, or was in 1996.

My other observation is that Kansas has zero redeeming qualities, unless you count needing to pull your car over and lie in a ditch to avoid a tornado as a "redeeming quality".

[gunt]

if you take the southern route, these are the major cities you go through...make your decision based on that.
hartford
NYC
knoxville
nashville
memphis
little rock
oklahoma city
amarillo
santa fe
flagstaff
las vegas

[Ulysses]

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Does anyone want to plan this trip for money?

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$2k and I'll give you a detailed itinerary, complete with hotel #'s.

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$3k and I'll add in great restaurants and places to meet hot chicks.

[sfer]

Bryce Canyon.
Graceland.
Rocky Mountain National Park.

[jason_t]

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Bryce Canyon
Graceland.
Rocky Mountain National Park.

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I drove across country last summer and my iternary included hiking in the two places in bold and I would also like to voice my support for this idea.

[soah]

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The advantage to this would be that you get to avoid driving through Nebraska on I80. ugh.

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I unfortunately had to travel through South Dakota once, and most of the state looks identical to Nebraska and Kansas. Except for all those Wall Drug signs. You have to drive like 300 miles just to get to a goddamn drug store in the middle of nowhere.