1. See the U.S.A.
Eat the food! Buy the souvenirs! See the sights! Drive all night! Take a trip of your choosing around the U.S.
and learn about our country.
Overview:
Your task is to travel to five different states, keeping a detailed budget, collecting information, keeping track of
your journey through charts and a journal. You may pick any states, but one must be the state you mentioned
as one you never to wanted to live in. You will have $4,000 to $15,000 to spend on your trip, and you must
keep account of every single penny you spend. Even the one that gets flipped into the fountain for luck. You
may also stay in whatever types of lodging you desire. You may pretend that you can legally drive, but you
may not pretend to be twenty-one years old.
Components:
Cover and Title Page
A unique title, author and design on the cover. The title page should include the title of your pro-
ject, author, and date.
Map
Include a map of the U.S., with the routes you took to your destinations, the methods of trans-
portation you used to get there and home, the state you traveled through, the states you actually
visited. Use different colors to indicate different routes, methods, etc. Your map should use a
legend.
Trip Overview
This serves as an itinerary, where you will plot out each day and what you will do on that day, be-
fore you actually go. Show destinations, arrival and departure times, miles, roads traveled and
time zones. Examples will follow.
Transportation
You may fly to your destination, but once there, you must rent a car and drive around the state
(s). You must keep detailed notes of gasoline cost and use, and how many miles you travel. If
you go by air, keep track of air miles to include. Do the same with the boat and/or train miles.
Be sure and include the names of the roads and specify if they are highways or freeways. If
your trip included flights, departures arrival dates, the duration of the flights are necessary. A
total of all miles on the trip needs to be included. If you rent a car, be sure to indicate the make
and model and how much the car costs to rent each day.

2. Time
You have three weeks for your trip. Keep track of how long you travel each day.
Budget
You must keep detailed, itemized budgets for everything you spend money on. Include a budget list for hotels,
food, gas, and miscellaneous costs, such as admission to places, movie tickets, Six Flags, Disney Land, etc. No
item is too small to be counted. Include a final total spent.
Journal
You must have a minimum of fourteen days entered into your journal. The entries must be one half of a page
long. Write about what you did specific to that location. Include what you did, what you saw, what you ate, etc.
Use details, voice, and creativity in your journal. Use your imagination, actually visit these places in your mind
and tell what the trip was like. This is the most detailed section where you show me that you researched your
locations and have thought about what it would be like.
Pictures
You must have pictures of the places on every page. These can be actual photographs, printed from the com-
puter, or cut out and glued in your book. You may include fake ticket stubs, postcards, a flat souvenir, menus,
etc. Be creative.
Final Copy
Your book must be typed, neat, aesthetically pleasing, arranged accordingly, and spaced to be read easily.
Scoring:
Cover title, name (15) ____
Title page-title, authors, date, class (15) ____
Map overview-states visited, routes, how traveled (25) ____
Packing list-categorized (20) ____
Trip overview-days, dates, time, transportation, days stayed, miles traveled (30) ____
Budget– Lodging, food, gas, misc. (75) ____
Journal-creative, voice, details, conventions (140) ____
Images/Décor on every page (35) ____
Neatness (20) ____
This assignment is due Friday, September 30th