We just got back from a trip across the south to check out SEC campuses: Miss, Miss St., Ala, Auburn, UGA and SC. Then came back across the north.

After SC, drove to Norfolk to tour the Naval ship yards.

Next day up to Rehoboth Beach Del. to visit friends for 5 days.

Then to DC to visit my Mom.

Next day drive to Antietam / Sharpsberg to visit the Battlefield the on to Shanksville Pa. to spend a few hours at the AA Flight 93 Memorial. Just when you think you're out of tears, this Memorial digs them out again.

We then drove to Canton Ohio for the Pro Football HOF and then on to the Air Force a museum at Wright Pat AFB, which was simply fantastic.

Long day back to DFW as we checked out University of Missouri and University of Arkansas. Missouri was the best campus we visited and Arkansas was the worst by far.

10 day trip.

So, anybody else do a road trip this summer??

Not this summer, but way back in 2008 when our oldest was a sophomore in high school. We took what I called the SEC Tour, visiting all but one SEC State (Florida). We left from Katy and went up 59 to Arkansas, to Tennessee where we got to tour the UT campus, then into North Carolina. Went from Asheville down to Clemson where we got to tour their campus, into Georgia where I stood on the bridge overlooking the UGA stadium end zone and had a brief convo with a random dude who just happened to be a sip (guess my Aggie cap drew him to introduce himself). While in Atlanta we saw the spot where Hank Aaron hit #715 and my wife would not let me go into the Jimmy Carter museum to ask if the old idiot was there (little could I have known then what was coming, but I digress), and visited the Olympic park.

Went through Tuscaloosa and visited the Alabama campus. Nice campus. I was impressed with the brickwork they have in front of the stadium, where they also have a bunch of statues of their NC winning coaches. There was an empty pedestal there. I recall wondering if they thought that empty pedestal would get filled with Dennis Franchione - and of course it now has been filled.

In Mississippi, no college campus tours but we did take in some Civil War history at Vicksburg. Our trip across Louisiana was more of a lets get home than lets see something.

We were gone for 2 weeks. The Clemson campus was the best we toured, but I was also impressed with the Tennessee campus.

Wow. Mizzou was the best campus!? I've been there. Okay but not great. On your list I would definitely have Georgia, Auburn and Ole Miss ahead of Missouri. And Arkansas has a great campus. I'm surprised you had them last. Mississippi State is okay but nothing special. Same with South Carolina.

The East Coast from Long Island down to Central Florida.

Once you get out of the armpit that is NJ, it's a pretty nice drive. SC in particular is a very nice state.

Nevermind

I see you answered it.

chick79 said:

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Wow. Mizzou was the best campus!? I've been there. Okay but not great. On your list I would definitely have Georgia, Auburn and Ole Miss ahead of Missouri. And Arkansas has a great campus. I'm surprised you had them last. Mississippi State is okay but nothing special. Same with South Carolina.

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Arkansas has a ton of construction going on around campus right now so probably a bit of an eyesore compared to how it will look this fall. Students being back around Dickson St. helps a lot as well.

hogfan14 said:

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chick79 said:

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Wow. Mizzou was the best campus!? I've been there. Okay but not great. On your list I would definitely have Georgia, Auburn and Ole Miss ahead of Missouri. And Arkansas has a great campus. I'm surprised you had them last. Mississippi State is okay but nothing special. Same with South Carolina.

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Arkansas has a ton of construction going on around campus right now so probably a bit of an eyesore compared to how it will look this fall. Students being back around Dickson St. helps a lot as well.

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Thanks. I'll suspend judgement until I see it in its proper form.

Austin TX to Lake Tahoe. We hit Roswell, Albuquerque, The meteor Strike, Flinstones park thing near Grabd Canyon, Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Vegas, Sierra Nevadas, Tahoe.

On the way home Yosemite, Zion, Pink Sand Dunes for sand boarding, Antelope Canyon, home.

We used the Roadtrippers app and hit lots of roadside or close by art exhibitions too

Senior year me and 3 roommates did a long trip over Christmas break. Started in Dallas, then:
Cincinnati night 1
State College PA night 2
Boston for 2 nights
Upstate new York 1 night. Tried to check out west point but weren't allowed on campus
NYC for i think 2 nights including NYE, but skipped the whole times Square craziness. Saw statue of liberty, times Square during the day, empire state building, don't remember what else.
Drove through Philly to get a cheesesteak and see the liberty bell
DC for 2 nights, got to see a bunch of museums and monuments. Highlights were the Dulles air and space museum, Arlington national cemetery, and the natural history museum.
Drove through Asheville, NC. Spent half a day at the Biltmore House
Stayed the night in Atlanta
Back to Dallas

I think it was 12 days total. Great trip!

I'm 52 so have done a ton of road trips as I love to drive and hate to fly.

Boston to Champaign IL back in 1993 visiting a girlfriend in college.

August 2020 during Covid drove DC to Plano. First night in Knoxville at U of Tennessee after stopping on Route 66 at New Market Battlefield.

Second day stopped in Murfreesboro battlefield in TN and stayed night in Memphis along the Miss River

Drove through Arkansas on third day to Dallas.

On the way back stopped in Vicksburg Airbnb first night, second night in Georgia near Fort Benning and saw that museum. Third day arrived to Hilton Head Island.

Wife and I did New England and racked up 1,200 miles in 2 weeks.

Boston
Salem
Portsmouth
Bar Harbor
Portland
Kennebunkport
White Mountains
Burlington
Green Mountains
Stockbridge/Pittsfield
Springfield
Providence
Martha's Vinyard
Boston

I have driven from Seattle to DFW twice. As long as you do not hang a left in Denver and then a right in Salinas, KS, it is about as epic of a drive as you take in this country.

Washington - Idaho - Nevada - Utah - Colorado - New Mexico - Texas

Amaze balls

I thought that Columbia, MO had a really cool, walkable downtown area when I visited for the A&M game in 2021. Didn't get to see too much of the rest of campus, though.