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Accommodation
29 nights in hostels, motels & one night under the stars.
Thirty days, thirteen cities, three time zones. From the Golden Gate to South Beach with a small group, a rolling home and someone who actually knows where the good BBQ is.
You show up with a passport and a sense of humour. We handle the rest — sleeping, rolling, eating, getting you in the right place when the light’s best.
29 nights in hostels, motels & one night under the stars.
Private 12-seat van, fuel, tolls and parking covered.
All breakfasts, 6 dinners, BBQ night in Austin included.
A local USA Packer guide with you every day, end to end.
Thirteen anchor cities and a ton of detours. Tap any day to open it up — you can see where you’re sleeping, what you’re doing and what’s optional.
Meet the crew at 6pm at our Mission District base. Quick icebreaker, paperwork out of the way, then walk down to a low-key taqueria for dinner. If you land early, you can squeeze in Fisherman’s Wharf, cable cars or Lombard Street.
One of the great drives on the planet. We hug the cliffs through Big Sur, stop at McWay Falls, crash at a roadside motel in San Luis Obispo, and roll into LA the next afternoon. Griffith Observatory at sunset is the move.
Last day on the Pacific. Breakfast in La Jolla with the sea lions, taco crawl through Oceanside, then an evening on Coronado Beach. Tomorrow we turn east.
Into the Sonoran. Sunrise stroll through Joshua Tree, a long hot drive to Phoenix, and up the red rocks of Sedona the next day. This is where the landscape starts showing off.
Early start. We’re at Mather Point before the sun clears the North Rim. Optional rim-to-rim hike (strong hikers), or the Bright Angel out-and-back to Cedar Ridge for the rest of us. Quiet cabins in the pines that night.
Hoover Dam on the way in. Check-in, nap, then a guided Strip walk from the Bellagio fountains to the Fremont Street canopy. Optional add-ons: helicopter night flight, comedy show, skydive next morning.
Upper Antelope with a Navajo guide, then Horseshoe Bend at golden hour. The next day, the mittens of Monument Valley from the scenic loop — the most filmed landscape in America.
From red desert to alpine air in one long drive. Garden of the Gods at sunset, optional cog-railway up Pikes Peak the next morning if weather cooperates.
Drop down through Taos Pueblo (continuously inhabited for 1,000 years) into Santa Fe. Gallery-hop Canyon Road, eat green chile on everything, watch the sun do what it does at 7,000 ft.
White Sands in the cool of the morning (sand-sledding is free, boards on loan). Cross into Texas by afternoon. Dinner in El Paso with Ciudad Juárez glittering across the river.
A pit-stop in Marfa for the weird lights and the Prada installation, a nod to the Alamo in San Antonio, and three full nights in Austin. Live music every evening, the included brisket night at a Franklin-style pit, bat-bridge at dusk.
Beignets at Café du Monde, gumbo for lunch, jazz at Frenchmen Street after dark. Optional bayou swamp tour. A city that does not stop humming.
The birthplace of the blues. You’ll sleep in a restored sharecropper shack, eat catfish at a country café, and catch a juke-joint set at Red’s. Optional detour to Graceland in Memphis next morning.
Spanish moss, live oaks, fried shrimp. A day in Savannah to wander squares, then south to the Golden Isles — bikes on Jekyll, a quiet evening on the marshes of Glynn.
Everglades airboat before lunch. Art Deco South Beach in the afternoon. Little Havana cafecito crawl, farewell dinner, ocean swim at 7am the next morning. Trip ends mid-morning on Day 30 — fly home, or stay longer. Key West is three hours south.
Small group — max 12 travellers per van. Prices in USD, per person, twin-share.
Day 1, 6:00 PM — USA Packer Base, Mission District, San Francisco.
2231 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
Closest BART: 24th St Mission · 6 min walk from the hostel.
Fly into SFO or OAK. We offer a paid shuttle (add-on at booking), or the BART runs right from SFO to 24th Street — about 35 minutes.
Arriving a day early? We can hold a room at our base rate — just ask.
Our vans carry full US liability cover, our guides are WFR-certified, and every stop on this route has been driven by a human (not just an algorithm) in the last 6 months. Travel insurance is required for every traveller — we’ll connect you with our preferred provider if you don’t already have it.
“Best thirty days of my life. Our guide Danny could find a decent diner in a town of 300 people. The Grand Canyon sunrise alone would have been worth the money.”
“Was nervous about doing a group trip — turned out the group became the trip. Austin BBQ night and the Clarksdale juke joint are things I’ll be telling people about for years.”
“Everything delivered as promised. Only note — book a couple of Austin dinners on your own budget, the best BBQ queues open at 11am. Otherwise perfect pacing for the mileage.”
Spots go fast — especially the May and June departures. Pick a date, hold your place with a small deposit, pay the rest up to 60 days before departure.