I used to live in Southern California (currently living in South Carolina), and I decided to drive out there a few weeks ago. I went through the bottom half of the country on the way there, and then took the north route on the way back. The trip was amazing, although lots of driving. It took me 12 days, 20 states, and about 6500 miles.

Anyway, here's a sampling of some of the trip:

A pier in Mississippi


Driving through Texas


At Montezuma's Castle


Grand Canyon




Filling up


The Hoover Dam


In Las Vegas


Downtown Los Angeles


Just by chance, local L.A. resident Sean saw me driving and flagged me down


How can you not like Disneyland?


Yosemite




Golden Gate Bridge


After stopping by Yosemite, I went to Mount Rushmore




After Rushmore, I decided to head home

 

some nice pics

 

nice nice, sean is my homie from anaheim, hes a good guy

 

awesome man. how did the R hold up?
any people try to race you on your adventure?

 

wow, amazing. i would love to do something like that. nice pictures too.

 

Thats awesome.

 

beautiful pics!

 

I've always wanted to do that trip although I'm in Ontario Canada. I have driven my previous R to Florida and back. That was very fun.

 

Hoya, wow, its good to see you are still around. Those pictures rock. Stick around more often!

 

The R held up perfectly. Except for routine oil checks, no problems to report.

And yeah, I had quite a few people try to race me on the highway.

 

awesome pics! i have to say, there's a little irony in driving one of the most stolen cars in America, across America...

 

Very cool man. I like 3 hours from the faces. Cool place up there. Thanks for sharing.

 

great pictures, looks fun!

 

Good stuff... How did you keep heR safe during the 20 days? Did you stay at hotels/motels or did you camp?

 

Honestly? I didn't really do anything out of the ordinary; just locked her up. Oh, and I stayed at mostly motels (shout out to Motel 6).

 

nice pics man

 

This is probably the "coolest" thread of the month haha

Thanks for sharing with us

 

Very cool to see. Did you make the trip alone or did you have a passenger?

 

Awesome pictures. what kind of camera do you have?

 

Nice pics. What made you move to South Carolina. I live in Spartanburg. About 15 mins away from Greenville. Welcome to the Carolinas

 

I made the trip by myself. If anybody is going to do this, I recommend lots of music and podcasts.

Oh, and the camera I used was a Canon 20D, and I was using a couple different lenses.

LunDC - When I was younger, my dad was transferred out here with his job.

 

I was going to do a similar thread to this in the next month, but now it seems pointless.
I am going on a semi-cross country trip leaving in 11 days from Ohio to somewhere roughly 1800 miles away. I will be driving my 98 with 145K on it.

 

Good thread, cool trip, I am jealous. Only thing I have used my R for lately is a moving van.

 

I want to do this someday. LOL, so you decided one day why don't I go for a drive. You kept heading West until you hit water, then decide to go back the other way.

 

About how much it cost you in fill ups? Roughly trip total costs?? I'm in Columbia, cool pics man!! Working on a gsr swap for my 99 ej8 right now.