My Fiance and I are going to drive to Yellowstone park for our vacation in May. What kind of sites do you suggest on the way?

Ravikiran

I am going on my first long road trip by car on 21 October. I will be driving from Bombay to Mangalore.

It is going to be a family trip, so we will have another driver - my uncle - along with us. The journey is 1,100 km and will probably take 15 hours including stops.

The route we will be taking is the fastest, but not the shortest. This is slightly crazy - though both Bombay and Mangalore are on the coast, the road goes through the interior, crossing the Western Ghats. There is no reasonable equivalent of the East Coast Road that you can take if you are going from Chennai to Pondicherry, which is a pity as the Konkan coast is one of the most beautiful places on earth.

evan

Maj, Amita June and I went down to Hudson (New York) over the weekend for the wedding reception of our friends Morgan and Kate. The trip down was fantastic -- the colors in the Adirondacks were really amazing, just hitting their peak. Amita June had a good drive, too: she got to look around a lot, listened to some music, and had a nap of about an hour and a half.

maj

This morning we're off to upstate New York (state) for two nights. It's supposed to be a super-nice weekend: sunny and warm(ish). I'm looking forward to some "leaf peeping," though the peeping is pretty great right out my window in the parc.