constantin_milea

<p>Thank you very much for all these great suggestions.There are so many places mentioned that is hard to choose.I believe,though,based on the great replies that I will stay mainly on the coast either from SF to Seattle in the north or to the south .I will leave the fantastic canyons from Arizona and Nevada to another time .The kids are used to travel abuse,I dragged them everywhere from Africa to Guatemala -:) .</p>

<p>Hi.I live in New York City and plan to take a road trip with my two kids (10 and 12) in July for about two weeks.My plan is to fly from New York either to California or Arizona and the rent a car .I always do it at a slow pace stopping 1-3 days in more interesting places and moving around from there .I was thinking starting in San Francisco and going down to San Diego either on route 1 or making some detours to places like Yosemite or Joshua National Park,but I got very lost ,there are many many ways .Some ,like Death Valley looks too hot in July and probably Grand Canyon is extremely crowded .Maybe I find here some suggestions of nice little towns (for example along route 66) .<br> I apologize being too vague ,I am not very familiar with the western US .Many thanks,<br> Mihail</p>