In Road Trip USA, each player is a traveler, represented by a pawn, on a mission to see various sites across the USA. When the game starts, depending on the number of players, a number of landmarks are drawn from the landmark deck and placed on the board as places for the players to travel to and collect. Once a landmark is collected by a player, however, the other players cannot collect that same landmark and a new landmark is drawn from the deck and placed on the map. During a turn, players must choose to collect resources, travel, or use a free ride card. When collecting resources, they may choose any one of the available tickets (bus, rail, high-speed rail, or airline) or all of the cash currently face up in the resource pool, called the panhandle. New cards from the resource deck replace those that were taken. To travel, a player spends the required resource cards from their hand to move from one city to another city, matching resource cards to the method of travel required. Some cities are connected to one another by rail or road, others by high-speed rail, etc. Cash allows a player to buy any of the various means of travel. On a free ride turn, the player gets to utilize a rail or bus connection for free (without spending any resource cards from hand) by using a free ride card that is available in the panhandle. Landmarks have three traits: Type (entertainment, natural, historical), region (Alaska, Hawaii, Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, Southeast) and alignment (represented by a number: 1-100). In order to win, a player must be the first to collect any one of the following sets: Any 8 landmarks; 2 of each type of landmark; 5 landmarks from different regions; or any 3 landmarks that have a matching alignment number (only the last digit of the number is used to determine). -description from publisher