3000 Miles – Explore the beauty of North America with Steve Cyrus

3,000 Miles

Drive the most direct route from the Atlantic Ocean (think Virginia Beach) to the Pacific Ocean (think San Francisco) and you’ve covered about 3000 miles.

Why not zig zag around the U.S.A, take your time and see some amazing places and meet a lot of nice people in the process. So this web site is really 3000 Miles +, and we hope you enjoy. Visit often for new places, parks, and people. In 2022 we took 7 months and drove around this country in a 38 ft. motorhome. We covered 11,000 plus miles visited popular destinations like National Parks and enjoyed even more just seeing the small towns and meeting some very nice people along the way.

Della, a 12 year old yellow lab loved being in the RV. Even when parked in the garage, she goes in and sleeps under the table. Now she is with us on this Big Trip and having fun with so many new sights and smells. Off course, she sleeps or sits anywhere she pleases. Being older she is fine alone in the RV for four or five hours while the humans go exploring. She is constantly monitored by temperature app, very comfortable and sleeps a lot.

Popular Destinations

Devils Tower National Monument

Devils Tower National Monument in WY, After 45 years of being captivated by the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, we finally visited one of the most astounding geologic features in America: Devils Tower. When the GPS showed that we had eight miles before our destination at the KOA campground right next to Devils…

Hidden Gem: Gaffney, SC

Gaffney, South Carolina is also known as the Peach Capitol of South Carolina, this “Peachoid” you see in the picture is the main attraction. We released Della at this water tower park where she roamed and sniffed, not paying attention to the gigantic peach rear-end over her. It is a nice attraction but…the peach stem…

Badland National Park

Now we are in a starkly different part of South Dakota from the mountainous Custer State Park: Badlands at 2000 feet lower. The two-hour drive across the state through Rapid City was appealing since landscapes changed constantly. At one point, it was all flat with corn fields. Then the Badlands came with a maze of…

Bryce Canyon National Park

Before arriving in Bryce, we drove on an “All-American Road”, a National Scenic Byway 12 that stretches over a hundred miles from Capitol Reef to Bryce. Highway 12 first goes through Dixie National Forest which resembles Virginia with rolling green fields and evergreen trees. Then it abruptly changes into acres of sandstone canyons, plateaus, cliffs,…

Monument Valley

From the website: “Goulding’s Lodge has been synonymous with Monument Valley for nearly a century. Harry and Leone (aka ‘Mike’) Goulding purchased land and started Goulding’s Trading Post in the 1920s. During the Great Depression, they saw an opportunity to bolster the local Navajo economy by bringing in movie production companies looking to film in…