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Be my guide: Reader-driven road trip from New York to Los Angeles

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To mark my transition from intern to full-time journalist with the L.A. Times, I started a cross-country drive on Monday, which I have been blogging for the L.A. Times Daily Travel and Deals Blog.

But this isn’t your grandfather’s road trip. I didn’t even take a paper map.

Instead, I’m relying on an iPhone and a laptop, with tools such as Google Maps for directions to each city and crowd-sourced suggestions from readers, Twitter users, blog commentators and review site Yelp for places to stop.

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Online social media have proved an invaluable tool for getting an array of travel tips from locals without actually being in that city. And because I’m a huge music fan, websites such as Upcoming are helping me to find rockin’ concerts along the way.

The next stop on my two-week road trip from New York to Los Angeles is Detroit. If you have tips for music venues or other hot spots in Hitsville or any other city along the way (click ‘Read more’ to see my itinerary), post comments on this blog post, send tweets to @mmilian or e-mail mark.milian@latimes.com.

To follow my road trip status live, visit twitter.com/mmilian. For daily recaps, visit Be My Guide on the Travel Blog.

-- Mark Milian

Mark Milian’s Cross Country Itinerary:

New York (June 22)
Washington, D.C.
Cleveland
Detroit
Chicago
Nashville
Montgomery, Ala.
New Orleans
Houston
Austin, Texas
El Paso, Texas
Albuquerque
Las Vegas
Los Angeles (July 5)

-- Mark Milian

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