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Old 07-04-2009, 08:46 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Suggestions/recommendations for road trip destinations in March

that would not be cold, but also would not be the site of college Spring Break debauchery?

I guess Chicago would be too cold.
South Padre would be X-rated

think driveable from KC.
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Old 07-04-2009, 10:32 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Chicago would be great! Sometimes it's really nice in March. There are really cool museums. Of course, this is all provided I live there...

Um. Do you guys camp? My friends and I went camping in Southern Utah one year. We drove from Chicago to Utah in one stretch (we were CRAZY!) and had a great time camping. It was pleasantly mild. It was also gorgeously beautiful.
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Old 07-04-2009, 11:23 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I suppose you'll be saying Atlanta isn't driveable?
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Old 07-04-2009, 11:24 PM   #4 (permalink)
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lol well atlanta or northern alabama if you want scenic. There are areas of florida that are much less spring breakish-- stuff like perdido or navarre
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Old 07-04-2009, 11:26 PM   #5 (permalink)
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oh and having driven from here through KC, you are abt 12 hrs from me and i am in central AL
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Old 07-04-2009, 11:33 PM   #6 (permalink)
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oh also nashville is along the way as is st louis, so do st louis, nashville, montgomery and then either atl or the beach (the nw florida area i mentioned is abt 3 hrs from here, as is atl) but that would be a driving trip broken into nice little chunks
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Chicago would be great! Sometimes it's really nice in March. There are really cool museums. Of course, this is all provided I live there...

Um. Do you guys camp? My friends and I went camping in Southern Utah one year. We drove from Chicago to Utah in one stretch (we were CRAZY!) and had a great time camping. It was pleasantly mild. It was also gorgeously beautiful.
Chicago was my first thought (after realizing that South Padre Island would be a really bad idea for Spring Break), but then there is that question about weather.

I am considering camping in southern utah.

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I suppose you'll be saying Atlanta isn't driveable?
Considered Atlanta, but then thought that I'd rather spend time in Atlanta sans familia.

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lol well atlanta or northern alabama if you want scenic. There are areas of florida that are much less spring breakish-- stuff like perdido or navarre
I'm thinking that Florida is pushing the limits of driving.

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oh and having driven from here through KC, you are abt 12 hrs from me and i am in central AL
Alabama is a definite consideration, as is:

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oh also nashville is along the way as is st louis, so do st louis, nashville, montgomery and then either atl or the beach (the nw florida area i mentioned is abt 3 hrs from here, as is atl) but that would be a driving trip broken into nice little chunks
Nashville and Mephis.
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Old 07-05-2009, 12:22 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Memphis is nice!
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Old 07-05-2009, 12:27 AM   #9 (permalink)
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We spent about 16 hours in Mephis last summer on the tail end of a road trip to Kentucky and I really was wishing we could have stayed longer.
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Old 07-05-2009, 01:26 AM   #10 (permalink)
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dude ranches in arizona seriously rock at that time of year! There is a very very family friendly one in Patagonia, AZ - just north of Nogales. I stayed there and absolutely loved it.
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I had considered such a place for March 2010, BUT. . . they want riders to be at least five and Jonathan will not yet be five, so I want to save that for a year he is relaly old enough.
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Hiking/camping in the Great Smokies?

Hiking/camping in Arkansas?

Or are you thinking more city stuff?
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Chicago can be cold in March but St. Pat's day there is fun!

what about Mt Rushmore & the Black Hills?

Smokey Mtns in TN?
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Hiking/camping in the Great Smokies?

Hiking/camping in Arkansas?

Or are you thinking more city stuff?
Both of those are considerations.

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Chicago can be cold in March but St. Pat's day there is fun!

what about Mt Rushmore & the Black Hills?

Smokey Mtns in TN?
The kids and I are leaving in five days to spend two weeks in the Black Hills.
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Old 07-05-2009, 12:46 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Destin - it is closer than Padre and you will have more families, less party hounds.
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