Really not sure when I would be able to do this, but after reading a lot of travel guides about various parts of the country, I figured it would be a fun exercise to sit down and see if I could make a road trip map that would hit all of the major parts of the US that I want to see (as well as the parts between those major parts, arguably what I am really looking for). Here is the route that I came up with, which I would expect to take well over a month:

View Epic Road Trip in a larger map

UPDATE: I’m noticing that the map isn’t actually showing up on the site; not sure why but it seems the Google embed feature isn’t working. Here is a link to the actual road trip, so perhaps you can view it on Google:
http://goo.gl/maps/T8Tx