Any route suggestions for Minneapolis to Phoenix? (Late January)

[lostagain]

Just take your bus and go! Any excuse for a bus road trip... Mini van and hotel rooms doesn't sound like any fun.

JC

[luvrbus]

If you can haul it the bay of a bus check with the snowbirds in Quartszite they may haul your items backs for a few bucks for fuel you see a lot of MN plates here in the winter time

[bobofthenorth]

You guys are all a bunch of weenies when it comes to a little dusting of snow.  Take the bus.  If its really bad stop and sleep until the road is clear again.  Its just a little snow ferchrisake.   

[luvrbus]

You guys are all a bunch of weenies when it comes to a little dusting of snow.  Take the bus.  If its really bad stop and sleep until the road is clear again.  Its just a little snow ferchrisake.   

I don't mind the snow I driven in a lot of it living in Idaho,lol that friggin ice in Kansas,OK,Texas and parts of New Mexico is nerve racking to say the least plus they cannot plow ice

[Fred Mc]

Now your starting to sound like a Canadian, Bob.

[belfert]

I'm leaning towards waiting until later in the year to do this.  If I have to drop all the way down to Fort Worth to avoid ice that gets me to at least 4,000 miles.  At $2.59 a gallon that puts me right about $1,500 and who knows what fuel will be at in two and a half months.  I'm not real flush with cash after buying a bunch of solar stuff recently and I still need to buy the mounts for the solar panels.

The stuff I am picking up won't fit in the bays of a bus.

[belfert]

If you really want the best route to avoid bad weather/road conditions consider I-29 down to Joplin, MO I-44 over to  OKC, I-35 down to Dallas 1-20 down to I-10 all the way to Phoenix an back.

Why wouldn't I just take I-35 all the way from Minneapolis to Fort Worth?  With rust in Minnesota I would probably be lucky to get 200,000 miles from my mini-van.  I don't really want to give up 2% of its lifespan in ten days.

[B_K]

Why wouldn't I just take I-35 all the way from Minneapolis to Fort Worth?  With rust in Minnesota I would probably be lucky to get 200,000 miles from my mini-van.  I don't really want to give up 2% of its lifespan in ten days.

More tolls going all the way thru KS on I-35 than the toll on I-44 plus less chance of ice and snow bound areas!
Glad I don't have to worry about rust!
  BK 

[eagle19952]

who knows what fuel will be at in two and a half months. 

if you believe analysts, crude could be $80.00 a barrel by years end...they're waiting on the new Tax Relief Bill...

[belfert]

If oil is $80 a barrel when I go on this trip I would have to drive my mini-van for sure.  No way I could afford $3 a gallon for diesel.  Every 15 cents a gallon increase means another $100 in cost.

[chessie4905]

Why not go in a pickup or SUV. Once out there, rent a u-haul trailer to haul it back. Either flat trailer or enclosed, whichever works best. You are assuming you'll have no issues with the coach in possibly shitty, cold, icy, snowy, weather.  In pickup or SUV, you can then take the two lanes.

[gumpy]

Rent a truck from Home Depot.

[TomC]

That time of year I would take I-35 to Dallas then I-20 west to I-10 west. Right at 2,000 miles. Still can run into ice storms.
Wait till March or April. Good Luck, TomC

[belfert]

The total weight of the steel items I am picking up plus my aluminum trailer is only about 1,000 pounds.  My mini-van should be able to tow that just fine if I went that route.  Budget will rent a moving truck for $275 one way, but with rental, flight, hotels, and fuel would probably cost as much as driving my bus.  It would certainly be a lot less driving.  I can't find anybody who rents pickup trucks one way.

The reason to do this at the end of Jan/early Feb is to get out of town during the Super Bowl mayhem in downtown Minneapolis.  I would wait until later in the year otherwise.

[belfert]

Why not go in a pickup or SUV. Once out there, rent a u-haul trailer to haul it back. Either flat trailer or enclosed, whichever works best. You are assuming you'll have no issues with the coach in possibly shitty, cold, icy, snowy, weather.  In pickup or SUV, you can then take the two lanes.

Is the two lane thing to save miles, or are you saying two lanes would be less likely to have ice/snow?