New Big USA Road Trip Announcement [Through My Lens Nr. 452]

It feels like I’m doing a road trip to the United States every year, but in fact in the last nine years we made four big road trips and now for this year, we have planned the fifth one. There is so much to see in so much to do in the United States that we are always looking forward to discover a new corner of the country. We will be back on the West Coast this time, which we have last visited in 2018. This time we are returning to the beginning to the first road trip that we made back in 2015 which was a California road trip. 

Now we are branching out and doing three different types of road trips in one. The first part is concentrated on Nevada and Las Vegas, the desert, Monument Valley and quaint towns in Colorado. The second part of the road trip is driving down Route 66 from Albuquerque, Flagstaff, Kingsman, Needles all the way to California. For the third and final part, we are doing a South California road trip that includes visiting San Diego, Oceanside, Laguna Beach and the rest of Orange County. Then we will head north towards Santa Barbara and finish our road trip in Los Angeles. 

Much of the road trip has already been booked and planned, but I want to come here and make this announcement in order to ask if you have any tips and suggestions for us on what we should see in which places we should visit. I will give you a list of places that we plan to visit as well as a general road trip map so any suggestion will be welcomed. Mostly, I’m looking for insider tips and places off the beaten path and places that are not on major tourist brochures and websites. Restaurants, cafes and bars are also needed. So thank you in advance for helping me out.

Part One: Las Vegas, Valley of Fire State Park, Springdale, Kanab, Page, Oljato-Monument Valley, Cortez, Durango

Part Two: Route 66, Albuquerque, Flagstaff, Kingman, Needles, Barstow

Part Three: San Diego, Carlsbad, Oceanside, San Clemente, Dana Point, Laguna Beach, Huntington Beach, Santa Monica, Malibu, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles

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