How long would it take to visit all states in the USA?

Totality · 10 Mar 2012 at 12:42

If you had a car, enough fuel and X amount of time off work. How long would X be? Could you visit all states in a few months to say "I've been to every state in the USA!" and have spent enough time in each to appreciate them? Took me 2 weeks last time to drive from New York to LA stopping off a couple of times, but I fancy a more epic trip!

Marky · 10 Mar 2012 at 12:46

I would say to truly appreciate each state, you'd have to set aside a week for each plus travelling time. You'd probably be looking at just over a year if you did it like that.

Moothead2 · 10 Mar 2012 at 12:51

Yeah, I'd say about a year too if you really want to appreciate each and every state. If you just wanted to see a couple of the main highlights in each state then you could probably do it in around half that time.

King Damager · 10 Mar 2012 at 12:54

A year if you wanted to actually do it all properly. You could probably do it in a week, if you literally didn't see anything and just drove around the country.

kd

Pawnless Endgame · 10 Mar 2012 at 12:55

Don't you have to return to the UK after you've been abroad for so many consecutive months?

Jokester · 10 Mar 2012 at 12:57

Monserrat said:
Don't you have to return to the UK after you've been abroad for so many consecutive months?

Yep, under a standard Visa Waiver you can only stay in the country upto 90days.

Edit: It might be an option to say go into Canada, do a new waiver then head back over the border?

6thElement · 10 Mar 2012 at 13:01

I'm interested to know how you're going to drive to Hawaii.

deuse · 10 Mar 2012 at 13:04

Marky said:
I would say to truly appreciate each state, you'd have to set aside a week for each plus travelling time. You'd probably be looking at just over a year if you did it like that.

That's about right maybe a bit longer.
Me and my mate joe used to drive from Florida to NY twice a year and that took 24 hours each way.

FabienO · 10 Mar 2012 at 13:07

From what I have heard, doing a US tour is quite boring. A friend of mine did a west coast tour and after 6-weeks just wanted to go home. Variety is the spice of life.

Efour · 10 Mar 2012 at 13:14

Yeah! Me and a few mates when we were younger talked about doing something like this. Spent a week working out an Itinerary and 2/3rds of it was driving.... and deadzones. The place is too big to see all in one go.

Citywise id probably want to just see NY and LA the rest is too American :O

Blue160 · 10 Mar 2012 at 13:31

King Damager said:
You could probably do it in a week, if you literally didn't see anything and just drove around the country.

kd

That's over seven states per day! Alaska and Hawaii would be challenging to fit into that kind of schedule. The USA's a very very big country.

scorza · 10 Mar 2012 at 13:34

Some states suck, why would you want to visit for example, North Dakota?

G-MAN2004 · 10 Mar 2012 at 13:37

scorza said:
Some states suck, why would you want to visit for example, North Dakota?

Just to say you've done it?

Peño · 10 Mar 2012 at 14:32

Efour2 said:
Citywise id probably want to just see NY and LA the rest is too American :O

And Chicago.

Tomsk · 10 Mar 2012 at 14:57

Totality said:
If you had a car, enough fuel and X amount of time off work. How long would X be? Could you visit all states in a few months to say "I've been to every state in the USA!" and have spent enough time in each to appreciate them? Took me 2 weeks last time to drive from New York to LA stopping off a couple of times, but I fancy a more epic trip!

Not bothering with Hawaii?

TheOtherOption · 10 Mar 2012 at 15:05

scorza said:
Some states suck, why would you want to visit for example, North Dakota?

Can't remember which TV series it was just now but I remember a character saying the same thing then adding "... there's a reason why they call them fly over states ..."

Kutter · 10 Mar 2012 at 16:07

Id like to see you drive through the lower 48 states in 1 week

robfosters · 10 Mar 2012 at 16:30

If I ever done this I would have to try and coincide it with Tornado season.

Would love to see a big tornado in real life.

Are there any storm chasing websites that show you the latest info and videos?

Amp34 · 10 Mar 2012 at 18:37

FabienO said:
From what I have heard, doing a US tour is quite boring. A friend of mine did a west coast tour and after 6-weeks just wanted to go home. Variety is the spice of life.

Depends if you're doing a city-city tour or visiting a variety of stuff, avoiding most cities.