Eastern United States, travel shmavels.

According to my mother and my step-dad, I am highly unorganised. This may or may not be true. I may be flying out to New York for a month in roughly three weeks time with no plans of where we are yet to stay. Once we crawl off of the plane in New York, we're straight on a bus to Nashville, Tennessee. That's where it all begins.

I was always a bit apprehensive going down south, what with all the rednecks and inbreeds and all. Apparently I have been watching too many horror movies that are set in the wilderness or ghost towns of states like Tennessee or West Virginia.

But with our tight schedule of only a month, I was thinking that it may be easier for us to stay East. Right now, our route looks something like a two day bus journey to California from Nashville and back again from Seattle to New York.

However, my love of California and the overhype that it receives as "the place to be" has drawn me back to the hills of Los Angeles and San Francisco. I want to dive deeper into the culture of these cities, with a little help from the hosters and surfers of Couchsurfing. I want to relive the Summer of Love, discover buried record shops and clothes stores.

I wanna do a bit of celebrity spotting too. When I visited Los Angeles a few years ago, within the first hour of arriving, I strolled down Hollywood Boulevard surrounded by crowds of journalists and gorgeous cars of the Gumball 3000 Rally as my brother's idols, Bam Margera and Ryan Dunn, pulled up not three yards away from me. Fuck yeah.

Without the West Coast, they'll be no visits to Adrienne Armstrong's eco-friendly boutique Atomic Garden in Oakland or taking in the unconditional love of Nirvana fans at Kurt Cobain's bench in Viretta Park in Seattle, adjacent to the house where he died.

But there will be the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, the lights of New York City (well, we'll have that anyway) and the streets of Philadelphia, as Springsteen once sang.

So, to set my tired mind at rest and maybe make our journey easier, can anyone recommend any places to go on the Eastern side of the USA? Or shall we stick to the plan and continue over to the beautiful Western side?