My best friend and I don’t want to make and keep to a major schedule on our trip. We want to run across gemstones and things and not have to worry about meeting a reservation. So if it is important to make reservations, is there any way to do both?

My friends and I are planning a roadtrip. The states we are considering are indiana (the dunes), Ohio (Cedar Point), and Missouri (Lake of the Ozarks). I have been told that certain states and counties have restrictions on the age you must be to rent a hotel, or camp. Any information on this is appreciated, especially in these three states.

My boyfriend is going to be doing a solo bikeride from L.A. to Chicago to raise money and awareness for Pancreatic Cancer. How can we get hotels to donate a room for a night along the way? He will mostly be camping, but I would love to surprise him with a room here or there as the trip is going to be very difficult.

I am traveling there this summer and was looking for a good spot! I am camping…. so no hotels or anything like that. I feel like roughing it this time.

We are going as 3 boys for our gap year (18yrs old- 19yrs old) and we want to know roughly how much we would need to save each.
We were going to buy a cheap car out there to then sell when we finished our trip. We are going to stay in cheap hotels/travel lodges/camp sites.
Also to pay for food and everything we would want to know how much altogether taking all that in mind. We would like to visit some popular attractions as well.

I am planning a 2 week motorcycle trip on a VFR800 w/ significant other….only 2 small saddle bags. We want to head west and stay away from big sities and traffic. I think 200 or 300 miles per day may be doable……we plan to split camping and hotels.

Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated….particularly on places/cities/states to visit.

I love to go on weekend trips with my 10 yr old son and sometimes a 3rd person. I usually stay in a hotel using Priceline but I thought a pop up camper or other small camper would be more fun with building a fire at night and meeting other campers,etc. I would probably want a campground with showers since I would prefer not to get too expensive a camper having a shower.

I want to go to Wildwood in mid August with some friends…don’t want to spend much on the hotel, so the cheaper the better. I don’t know how many are going yet – anywhere from 4-10, so we might all try to cram in one room or get 2. But looking them up online only tells you so much so if you know of a good place to stay that is very cheap, let me know! Not picky at all, I’d just take a tent and camp out on the beach if they’d let us!
Yeah I’ve been to Wildwood/Cape May probably 7 times before…it’s a bit seedy but I live in upstate NY so it’s only a 4 hour drive and the beaches are decent, waves are decent. I’m only 21 and the only time I’ve gone without my family was last year I went with some friends, but we planned it very late and only could get this one hotel right on the beach that was about $190 a night, and it was a really seedy hotel. Very nice lobby but the rooms were small and it was just old and not nearly worth that price.

I was wondering what the approximate cost of a roadtrip across the country would be. We would be setting out in Maryland and going the northern route to Cali and then taking the southern route back. Of course, we want to keep it cheap. We’d most likely be camping, eating out of a cooler, fishing once in a while, and not sleeping in any hotels. So with gas, about how much do you think it would cost?

Also, how long do you think it would take if we wanted to stop and see the sights? I was figuring 3 to 5 weeks.
Yes, I understnad about gas milage and all that but I am just looking for an approimate amount. Would $3,000 be enough? Or would we need $5,000?

Which do you think is the better / safer / cheaper option?

We’ll be staying with family in Oregon and N California for part of of the time, but can’t decide how to organise the rest of the trip:

a) hire a big RV for the rest of the trip and call that home

b) hire a 4WD and a big tent and camp a few nights and stay at hotels/motels the rest of the time.

Pros and cons of the two?
My partner is more leaning towards getting an RV, but it seems like a big hassle to me. We’d have to organise exactly where we were going to be months in advance and then we’re stuck with this big monster of a thing.

I’m more in favour of the 4WD and a big tent. As there’s lots of family around we might not even end up camping at all…