Thanks a bunch.
These replies are super helpful. We're leaving next Friday. We'll go through Cleveland, Buffalo, and Rochester (where's a good place to eat in Rochester?). Thanks for the advice on mass transit. I think that's a plan for me. I don't mind driving in bad city traffic but hate the hassle of finding parking.
We did the
Hotwire.com: Discount airfare, hotel reservations, car rentals, vacation packages and cruises thing and have a decent hotel in Boston for $44 per night and a mom and pop motel up in Maine. Even have Red Sox tickets.
Got a transponder for the toll roads so it's just the two of us, plus naviwoman, and cruise control. We bought the Fit for these kinds of long hauls. This is our first long cross-country in it.
What am I forgetting?
Cheers.