The route
Here are the major waypoints for this trip. (Waypoints in parentheses are significant places that I visited or passed through, without staying overnight.)
- 0: California: Mountain View; Irvine; Barstow
- 1: Nevada: (Laughlin)
- 2: Arizona: Flagstaff; (Meteor Crater); Holbrook; (Petrified Forest National Park); (Canyon de Chelly National Monument)
- 3: New Mexico; 4: Colorado; 5: Utah: (Four Corners Monument)
- 3: New Mexico (revisiting): Farmington; Acomita; (Acoma Pueblo); Tucumcari
- 6: Texas: (Amarillo)
- 7: Oklahoma: Weatherford; (Oklahoma City National Memorial)
- 8: Kansas: (Coffeyville)
- 9: Missouri: Joplin
- 10: Arkansas: (Bentonville), Hot Springs; (Hot Springs National Park); Little Rock; (Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site); (Clinton Presidential Museum)
- 11: Tennessee: Memphis; (Graceland)
- 12: Kentucky: (Kentucky Bend)
- 13: Mississippi: Oxford; (Natchez Trace Parkway); Jackson; (Natchez Trace Parkway); Natchez
- 14: Louisiana: Lafayette; (Grand Isle); New Orleans
- 15: Alabama: (Mobile)
- 16: Florida: Pensacola
- 17: Georgia: Albany; Savannah
- 18: South Carolina: Charleston
- 19: North Carolina: Wake Forest; (Mount Airy)
- 20: Virginia: (Blue Ridge Parkway); Roanoke; (Blue Ridge Parkway); Charlottesville; (Monticello); (Shenandoah National Park); Front Royal
- 21: West Virginia: (Charles Town)
- 22: Maryland: Baltimore
- 23: District of Columbia: Washington
- 22: Maryland (revisiting): (Annapolis)
- 24: Delaware: (Lewes)
- 25: New Jersey: Cape May; Atlantic City
- 26: New York: New York
- 27: Connecticut: (New Haven)
- 28: Rhode Island: (Newport)
- 29: Massachusetts: Taunton; (Lexington); (Gloucester)
- 30: New Hampshire: (Portsmouth)
- 31: Maine: Augusta; (Acadia National Park); Auburn
- 30: New Hampshire (revisiting): (Mount Washington)
- 32: Vermont: Burlington; (East Burke)
- 26: New York (revisiting): Glens Falls; Buffalo
- 33: Pennsylvania: (Erie)
- 34: Ohio: (Cleveland); Toledo
- 35: Michigan: (The Indiana-Ohio-Michigan Tri-Point)
- 36: Indiana: (Middlebury)
- 37: Illinois: Chicago
- 38: Wisconsin: (Kenosha)
- 39: Iowa: (Riverside); Colfax; (Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge); Missouri Valley
- 40: Nebraska: (Omaha)
- 41: Minnesota: (Luverne)
- 42: South Dakota: Murdo; (Badlands National Park); (Mount Rushmore National Monument); (Crazy Horse Memorial); Rapid City; (Wind Cave National Park)
- 43: Wyoming: (Devil’s Tower National Monument); Hulett
- 44: North Dakota: (Bowman)
- 45: Montana: Miles City; Butte
- 46: Idaho: Kooskia; (Lewiston)
- 47: Washington: (Clarkston); (Walla Walla)
- 48: Oregon: John Day
- 49: California: Redding; (McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park); Mountain View