Yeah, well…
Get yourself to Boston.
Dopefest!
Not in most of the parts of Alaska where tourists go. You really have to go to far northern Alaska to see polar bears.
Upstate NY is beautiful in August. Visit Saratoga, see the horses, then roll through New England. Perfect time to visit that area!
I always was a little sorry for people from England and other smallish island nations, where you can’t go on road trips where it takes a good three days solid of driving just to get from point A to point B.
Four weeks from late August?
You should look up the Great American Beer Fest and see if it would fit in your schedule to be in Colorado at that time.(Im at work so I can’t check the dates on a beer related site). You would fall to your knees in thanks to god to see some of the amazing beer we make over here. 1600+ beers, need I say more?
Another Colorado thing depending on the dates you settle on. There are a lot of good music festivals up in the mountains all summer. You might be a bit late for most of them, but here’s one in August.
I’ve never been to that one but I’m considering it this year.
Been there, the place I discovered that Paul Revere lived in a really tatty little house down some back street.
Lunched on Boston Common and met a very nice couple from Kansas and we still exchange cards and letters
I was surprised that Revere’s home wasn’t guarded by guys dressed as minutemen and that the place was decidedly grubby, hardly befitting of an American hero I thought.
Wolfman I’ve tasted American beer 
and it has to be said that Sam Adams is absolute crap…well it is in Michigan anyway
No No No, Nothing mass produced.
Well actually they are there, but nobody bothers with them(except Sam Adams Utopias, man that is smooth). It’s all about the craft, mini, and micro brewers at the GABF.
Hey, chowder , when you were in RI did you eat yourself? If so, red or white?
We had this conversation once.
He ate the stuff that was not a product of Satan’s ass.
The white chowder is the only chowder worth eating.
I have erotic dreams about real chowder which we don’t have in the UK
The rest is,as tdn so rightly says, is a product of Old Nicks arse
You can, assuming you’re prepared to cross international borders. Scotland to Gibraltar would be around 3 days drive. Friends of my Dad’s motorcycled to Israel - I’m guessing 4 days, maybe 5 from Glasgow.
Oh, you have to stick your car on a train or a boat for an hour or so, but it’s no big deal.
Back on topic, my only advice to the OP is not to bother with West Virginia. Oh, and personally I love Philadelphia. Not too bad for New England either, especially if one has four weeks. I’ve driven from Harrisburg to Boston in about 8 hours.
About 10 years ago I motored around mainland Europe for 3 weeks and managed to cross over umpteen borders.
In 3 weeks I wouldn’t see a fraction of the USA
To my mind, spending all day driving (in a huge, comfortable, climate-controlled car) is part of the whole experience. I drove from San Francisco to Vegas via Yosemite in two days, and it was a right laugh.