Cheers Hunted - Judith Chalmers DUSC - here goes Slateford....

I love driving in America.  All depends on what interests you mate?  The most obvious is Route 66 which I have never done in its entirety, but I've done parts of it doing other things.  The original R66 is now superseded by modern freeways.  Here's a few of what I have done:

Phoenix - Grand Canyon - Las Vegas - LA and up the old coast road to San Fransisco

Buffalo through New York State to New York City

Throughout Florida from Miami to the Keys to Orlando

San Diego - LA - Las Vegas - Fresno - San Fransisco

Charleston area South Carolina

Charleston to Orlando via hilton Head, Savannah, Jacksonville, Saint Augustine etc

Charlotte into the North Carolina mountains

I'm in the U.S. at least once a year and have a U.S. Sat Nav (essential) and two U.S. Cell phones (also essential IMO).  When pals of mine go to the States they borrow this and that is a further saving and means you do not come home to a mobile bill from hell which once happened to me with a Blackberry that had roaming on even though I did not use it!

Driving is as cheap as chips compared to here.  I use rentalcars.com and have done for as long as I remember as they are simple to deal with.

If you are doing a one way trip ie your rental car ends of hundreds/thousands of miles from where you rented it there could be a hefty premium involved unless you get lucky with a repositioning.  Hopefully that's a start for you, but feel free to quiz away....

Foo Kin Twat wrote:

Cheers Hunted - Judith Chalmers DUSC - here goes Slateford....

I love driving in America. All depends on what interests you mate? The most obvious is Route 66 which I have never done in its entirety, but I've done parts of it doing other things. The original R66 is now superseded by modern freeways. Here's a few of what I have done:

Phoenix - Grand Canyon - Las Vegas - LA and up the old coast road to San Fransisco

Buffalo through New York State to New York City

Throughout Florida from Miami to the Keys to Orlando

San Diego - LA - Las Vegas - Fresno - San Fransisco

Charleston area South Carolina

Charleston to Orlando via hilton Head, Savannah, Jacksonville, Saint Augustine etc

Charlotte into the North Carolina mountains

I'm in the U.S. at least once a year and have a U.S. Sat Nav (essential) and two U.S. Cell phones (also essential IMO). When pals of mine go to the States they borrow this and that is a further saving and means you do not come home to a mobile bill from hell which once happened to me with a Blackberry that had roaming on even though I did not use it!

Driving is as cheap as chips compared to here. I use rentalcars.com and have done for as long as I remember as they are simple to deal with.

If you are doing a one way trip ie your rental car ends of hundreds/thousands of miles from where you rented it there could be a hefty premium involved unless you get lucky with a repositioning. Hopefully that's a start for you, but feel free to quiz away....

Cheers mate, loads of good info!

We were thinking about a drive around the west coast.  I know it would be less hassle to just buy something as a package, but I guess if we did it all ourselves we'd save quite a bit of cash?