So many ideas...

We are so excited for you all! Traveling cross country is an amazing experience!! My first quick thoughts below. Everything is amazing but my answers are based on three months in the car, so I was more excited about getting out of the car and moving hiking walking and on seeing things that were really unique. There are a million random things that we saw that we just happened upon (like the weird weiner mobile in New Mexico) or the Dinosaur Zoo I think also in New Mexico. My suggestion is make a plan but be prepared to ditch it if something looks really interesting or fun!

First and foremost my hands down favorite National Parks in America:
1. Zion National Park in Utah: Angel´s Landing is perhaps the best hiking trail in America.
2. Bad Lands South Dakota. So strange, so surreal, so poetic.
3. Yellowstone: you jsut cant beat it for variety wildlife and majesty. It makes you understand why the American West is still the stuff of dreams
4. Glacier National Park, MT

Random things that you can´t miss because they are so unique:
1. Corn Palace, South Dakota. Weird. Sort of amazing in the ingenuity of corn. Not much else to see but then again you will have jsut driven across th ewhole state of South Dakota so it´s worth it.
2. Also in South Dakota Wall Drugs. Old time pioneer drug store. Also in the middle of South Dakota, so you will be happy to stop.
3. Roadside Giants in North Dakota ... it´s flat it gets cold they get creative. Of note Worlds largest Cow (near New Salem) and Turtle (near Dunseith)
4. Salt flats in Nevada
5. Bryce National Park in Utah: The towers of rock make you wonder what the native Americans and first pioneers must have thought when they found them
6. This could alternately go under the not as cool as you might think heading depending on your interest, but, the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City. Take the tour. Fascintating (my review), Weird and creepy (Rafaels review).
7. Garden of Eden Kansas: Folk Art. Very cool. American Gothic.
8. Roswell NM UFO Museumç
9. San Dunes National Monument, CO. Dunes in the middle of the forest.
10. Natural Bridge, VA
11. Grand Canyon: Hike down to the CO river. Amazing.
12. Bear Tooth Highway MT if it is open it is a MUST. Amazing views.
13.Goblin Valley State Park, UT (in keeping with the MadMardigan theme)
14. Tinkertown Museum, NM ... maybe under classic American ... tinker toys!

Classic American:
1. Highway 1 in California. Amazing views. You can camp out.
2. August 9th to 15th Sturgis SD: Bike Rally. I think the largest in the world. There are no words. Google it...
3. The Field of Dreams Dyersville Iowa also has a museum of farm toys
4. Sedalia, MO: Home? of ragtime music. They have a lot of it anyway.
5. Las Vegas. A see it one time kind of thing.
6. Sequoia National Park

Cities:
1. Savannah
2. Charleston, SC
3. St Agustine, FL
4. Canon city, CO (home to many prisons but amazing amazing scenery especially their Skyline Drive)
5. New Orleans
6. Bar Harbor Maine
7. Chicago

Not as impressive as you might think:
1. Mt Rushmore. You walk up see the carvings. Thats pretty much it.
2. Niagra Falls: Very pretty but again you see it and that´s pretyt much it
3. Hoover Dam
4. Capital Reef National Park, UT