Owing to the size of the country - we did our visits by region
2017 we flew into SFO and did the following loop....
North out of SFO - to (1) Madras,Or (2) WAAAM,Hood River,Or (Fly In) (3) Rockaway,Or (railroad) (4)Tillamook,Or (5) McMinnville,Or (6) Eureka,Ca (7) Reno,Nv (races) (8) Tahoe then Yosemite (9) Sugarpine Railroad,Ca (10) Castle AFB,Ca (11) back to SFO - from memory about 2,500 miles inc using coast road down to Eureka,Ca on way to Reno (too many roads closed on google maps at present to do complete journey
.2 week holiday
2018 we flew into Dulles then (1) Udvar Hazy (2) Reading,Pa (airshow) (3) Golden Age Museum,Bethel,Pa (4) Strasburg Railroad ,Pa (5) Scranton,Pa (steamtown) (6) Elmira (glider museum) (7) Curtiss Museum,Hammondsport,NYS (8) Niagara/Horseshoe Falls NYS and canada (9) North Creek Depot,NYS (railbike trip
) (10) Old Rhinebeck,NYS (11) New England Air Museum,Windsor Locks,Ct (12) Kinzua Viaduct,Pa (12b) Durbin,WV (Durbin Rocket Railroad
) (14) Fayetteville,WV (Stearman Ride,unplanned - family invite from Reading Airshow) .
Once again approx 2,500 miles inc a side trip to Raquette Lake,NYS
One other little attraction at Udvar Hazy is the 'Tower' (
Donald Engen Tower) which gives 360 deg view of the airport and great closeish view of arriving/departing airliners - although it sometimes gets invaded by schoolkids - the day we flew out of Dulles we visited U-H for a 2nd look around whilst waiting for our return flight.3 week holiday