More US trip planning - possibly stupid question

[inulro]

I've just realised there may be a flaw in my plan for post C road-tripping.

Is it still going to be cold in Wisconsin and on the Upper Peninsula at the beginning of May?

Maybe we should head for points south instead.

Comments

[kekhmet.livejournal.com]

I'd say Kentucky and Tennessee are a long way from Chicago!? You've got to transit Illinois and/or Indiana - which I've always been under the impression rather boring to drive through - to get there too if you're driving it. (Are you roadtripping at that point - I don't remember). My impression of those areas may be negatively influenced by my being from left-leaning university towns in the Upper Midwest of course ;-) My impression of Indiana I admit is mostly down to a lifetime of transiting the industrial areas around Gary - which are pretty grim and blighted, (and when I was a kid always smelt TERRIBLE) - when travelling between my hometown of Ann Arbor, MI and Chicago, IL and/or Madison,WI

(OK, actually I did drive southward through some of that area once come to think of it - with my relatives from WI when we drove down to Florida for the funeral of a relative. Grim reason for the road trip aside, I also don't recall there being much to recommend the scenery until we reached Kentucky really. Of course we just stuck to the fastest expressway or tollway I'm sure)

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

Illinois is about a 5 to 6-hour drive N-S, and yes, boring as hell. Flat, corn, more flat, more corn, and then finally some hills and trees and corn in the very south. That said, if you do go south, my friends once took me to Turkey Run State Park on the southerly IN/IL border, and it was quite lovely. Personally, I'd rather do the northerly trip, even in early May.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I'm from Saskatchewan. 5-6 hours of boring as hell is better than the 11-12 hours boring as hell that it takes to drive to Red Deer, Alta (every summer, and often Christmas as well). Plus Jason, being Irish, thinks prairies are *fasctinating* and I'm trying to convince him he's wrong. That might work.

(You should have seen him when he saw his first irrigation rig in Idaho. I had to explain what it was. It was just adorable).

Though yeah, I'm thinking that plan A and the more northerly trip is the better bet.