My offspring wants to visit IU-Bloomington, Louisville,U of A Tuscaloosa, Clemson, and possibly the U Tenn in Knoxville. We%26#39;ll have 6 days if you take out the flight time.
Day 1: Fly in, drive to Bloomington
Day 2: Bloomington
Day 3: Drive to Tuscaloosa, arrive 3pm.(Maybe fly southwest air instead, arrive 10am)
Day 4: Spend the day at the U of A, Drive to Clemson, arrive 12am
Day 5: Clemson
Day 6: Return to Louisville, leaving early, stopping at Knoxville for a quick fly by of U Tenn, and arriving Louisville around 4 for a visit there.
Day 7: Visit U of Louisville, fly out in the afternoon.
(Day 8: NOTHING: assume vegetative state)
We don%26#39;t mind long drives and long days, but is this trip humanly possible? We know we won%26#39;t get to know any area, so this trip is just for looking at the universities. We might study the course catalogs more closely and drop one or two, but we%26#39;ll keep UI, UA and Clemson.
Haven%26#39;t bought plane tickets yet, so I%26#39;m just trying to figure out a way to make it only one trip. Maybe an open-jaws flight, flying in to Louisville and out at Atlanta?
Crazy or Just Rushed -- college tour of SE
Maybe it has to do with where you want to fly in and out of, but this trip seems to spend too much time driving in zigzags. If it were me, this is what I would do: Fly into Indianapolis and drive down to Bloomington (about an hour or so), It is around 1.5 hours or so from Bloomington to Louisville, then maybe 3.5 hours from Louisville to Knoxville. From Knoxville, you could go 3.5 hours to Clemson. The from Clemson to Tuscaloosa is about 5 hours. You could then fly out of Birmingham or head back to Atlanta (about 3 hours or so) and fly out from there.
Crazy or Just Rushed -- college tour of SE
It makes a lot of sense to make a line instead of a loop. The order you put it in makes sense, too. I%26#39;ll have to find cheap one-way flights, and a car rental that doesn%26#39;t have to be returned to point of origin.
Thanks!