We're planning the "circular tour" in the summer, tickets arrived today yippee and even better courtesy of Freeway miles so we don't even have to pay for them! I know it will b eexhausting but as we are still tied to school hols at the moment and Easter is out because of AS levels we'll just have to grin and bear it. We're intending to fly in and out of LAX and have arranged it so most of the long drives are at the beginning so we're having 1 night in Santa Monica when we arrive, then drive up the coastal route which we've been told is quite pleasant, 1 night in Monterey to go to the aquarium there, then 3 nights San Fran, followed by 1 night in Yosemite, then 3 nights in Las Vegs, so we can do the Grand Canyon etc, (we're staying at the Circus Circus as it will be our daughters 17th birthday and we figured it best to go to a family orientated place than somewhere with casinos etc she couldn't go in and then we're finishing off with 5 days "relaxing" at LA to get our Disney fix.! We've got 2 drivers so it should be feasible but we'll let you know in September if it all pans out as expected. Any other "must sees" will be appreciated, although if it's like Florida we'll have such a long list we'll never get them done.
Ps i know what you mean about New Year, we were at Epcot and saw the first fireworks but got so wet we decided another 4 hours wasn't really a good idea so we went home and watched it in tv and guess where one of the places they were filming from was Magic Kingdom, we resisted the urge to go back out and try and get on the telly as we knew they'd filled the park up by 11.30.