Believe it our not, there is quite a bit of beautiful scenery across the continental United States that many people will never see. We’ve become so accustomed to flying around everywhere that we often forget that all of that “dead space” in between airports actually has things worth seeing. With that sentiment in mind, my wife and I decided to drive to Las Vegas from our Miami condo for our honeymoon. Just to give you an idea of how far we were talking about driving, it’s about a 2,000 mile drive, and that was OK with us. After getting accustomed to the jet setter lifestyle with our travel jobs, it was time to get some alone time with mother nature.
With a tank full of gas, we hit the road around 8 AM on a Wednesday morning to make sure we had enough time to get out of Florida before sunset. We moved through the panhandle and up into the mainland through the night and over the next few days, we ventured through Arkansas and Oklahoma. We could have easily cut through Texas and stayed close to the gulf coast until we made it closer to Nevada, but to pass up the sight of autumn in the midwestern states would be criminal. It wasn’t until we started making it into New Mexico and Arizona that the trip started to get interesting. With miles and miles of desolate roads and nothing but my wife and I in a convertible for miles in any direction, we felt in touch with the outdoors and the things we had never seen. We may have wasted all of our money on gas getting there, but driving to Last Vegas was a much better idea than flying could ever have been.
