If you buy a red 4-cylinder soft top Jeep, I want to recommend that you don't plan to drive it across the country with a white Honda Rebel 250 on a carrier attached to the trailer hitch. If you are going to do all that, I'd recommend not filling it up with crap and having a bum fuel or electrical system.
It's quite a bit of work to get across Oklahoma and North out of Texas without getting practically blown off the road, first of all. That was maybe the hardest day of driving I'd ever done, honestly. Since it was my second day on the road, I was already tired, too, which didn't make the day any easier.
On the first day of the trip I had some problems with either the electrical system or the fuel pump that resulted in stalling when the road was bumpy, which was nearly all the time. Reseating the wires on the distributor cap and the spark plugs seemed to help during the windy day, which was a small blessing, but the stalling came back in the evening and intermittently throughout the other two days of the trip.
I wore earplugs for four straight days, which actually made the noise bearable, but also made my ear canals swell. I felt like a bit of a fool hopping in my jeep and then smooshing earplugs into my ears, but man, was it worth it. Next time I drive across the country, I'm going to do it west-to-east. And with another person. Without earplugs.
After the break I've stuck a ridiculously-large version of the map above. It totally borks the layout, though, so be forewarned.
Here you can see the main stops on my trip.
