west coast

so basically:

total distance 6,610 miles - 4 days, 3 hrs driving time
day1(hotel) detroit
3 hrs 24 mins to get there
doable in one day
day2(hotel) chicago
4 hrs 30 mins to get there.
doable in one day
day3(hotel) minneapolis
6 hrs 45 mins to get there
day4(hotel)denver
13hrs to get there
day5(hotel)salt lake city
7hrs27mins to get there
day6(hotel)LA
10hrs3mins to get there
day7(hotel)fresno
3hrs25mins to get there
day8(hotel)sanfrancisco
3hrs4mins to get there
day9(hotel)portland oregon
9hrs59mins to get there
day10(hotel)seattle
2hrs29mins to get there
day11(home)dayton
35hrs to get there

24 hrs in a day - 9 spent sleeping
checkout time tends to be 11 or 12

given that, sleep probably begins latest @ 1 or 2.

1or2through10or11. given checkout time.
so besides that we've got... 10or11 to 1or2. which'd be... 15 hrs. to do shit.

so in a given day there's like, time to travel, time to rest, time to see shit. plus time to sleep.

so outa day 1, of the 15 waking hours we've got, we'll like... spent about 3.5 of 'em getting there, leaving us with... 11.5 to ourselves, to divide between rest & seeing the place.

dad tends to reccomend 2 days to see a place, but if we can get away with driving there, seeing the place, then leaving the next day, that'd rock too.

so we arrive in detroit, with about 11.5 to see the place. then sleep. and wake. around 10 or 11am.

we then depart for chicago which is 4.5 or our 15 leaving us with 10.5 to see the place. again decent ammount of time. we sleep around 1or2 wake around 10or11, and set off.

next is minneapolis, which'll take about 6.75 or our 15, leaving us with like... 8.25 to look around. still decent. sleep, wake, 10 or 11, and depart.

denver'll be like 13 hrs to get there, meaning it'll take 13 of 15, leaving us with 2 hrs. not enough time to see the place, so we'll sleep, wake, explore for 15, sleep, wake and leave. (2 day stay).

next up's salt lake city, with 7.5 hrs of 15 to get there... leaving us wit 7.5 to look around. that's potentially enough in my book. look around, see the sights, sleep, wake, and we're off.

next up's LA. taking us 10 of 15 to get there, leaving us with like, 5 to look around. i dont know, that might be enough, we'll see. given a departure of around 10, plus 10 more to get there, we'd arrive around 8pm. that's a potential problem given the fact that most things are closed then.