Help me with a LA to SF plan....
Aug 29th, 2004 | 07:03 AM
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We do this trip annually but in 10 days...
I say skip LA, if you can fly into Santa Barbara.
Spend a night in Santa Barbara (we stay at the Radisson on the beach)
A night in Cambria on Moonstone Beach (lots of great shops and a beautiful drive to Monteray through Big Sur - stop at Harmony on the way - a few miles before Cambria)
A few nights in Monteray/Carmel (Farmer's Market on Tuesday nights in Monteray, 17 mile drive to pebble beach, Awakenings for breakfast, aquarium - we stay at the Doubletree)
Then the last few nights in San Francisco. Union Square is the most Central place. Take a Cable Car ride, see Alcatraz, go to the Cliff House ruins, visit Sausalito, bike the Golden Gate Bridge, see Wine Country - Oakville is the best place (Oakville grocer, Robert Mondavi, Francis Ford Coppola, Cakebread, Opus One, Silver Oak & Plumpjack)
I say skip LA, if you can fly into Santa Barbara.
Spend a night in Santa Barbara (we stay at the Radisson on the beach)
A night in Cambria on Moonstone Beach (lots of great shops and a beautiful drive to Monteray through Big Sur - stop at Harmony on the way - a few miles before Cambria)
A few nights in Monteray/Carmel (Farmer's Market on Tuesday nights in Monteray, 17 mile drive to pebble beach, Awakenings for breakfast, aquarium - we stay at the Doubletree)
Then the last few nights in San Francisco. Union Square is the most Central place. Take a Cable Car ride, see Alcatraz, go to the Cliff House ruins, visit Sausalito, bike the Golden Gate Bridge, see Wine Country - Oakville is the best place (Oakville grocer, Robert Mondavi, Francis Ford Coppola, Cakebread, Opus One, Silver Oak & Plumpjack)
Aug 29th, 2004 | 08:03 AM
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Hwy 101 is a good alternative to Hwy 1 if the weather is bad or if Hwy 1 has been closed previously due to slides. Caltrans cleans up some slides to reopen the road, but if there are multiple slides and/or big slides, they generally close the road and just wait until spring to clear everything out.
Hwy 101 is freeway most of the way, so it is fine in bad weather. It goes through some nice country - rolling hills with oak trees on them, past some wineries, and through some agricultural areas. Plus, in Feb, the hills will be nice and green from the rains. It should be beautiful.
If you can spare 2 days for this drive, and stay the night either in or around Cambria or Monterey, you can kind of play it by ear with regard to route. You could head up Hwy 101 to San Luis Obispo, and then either continue on Hwy 101 if the weather doesn't cooperate, or if it's nice and the road is open, you can take Hwy 1 from there and go through Big Sur. Hwy 1 and 101 almost meet up again in Monterey, so if you went up hwy 101, you could cut over to Monterey fairly quickly and see some coastline there. Point Lobos is spectacular and will give you a good idea of what Big Sur is like if you didn't get to drive through there.
Hwy 101 is freeway most of the way, so it is fine in bad weather. It goes through some nice country - rolling hills with oak trees on them, past some wineries, and through some agricultural areas. Plus, in Feb, the hills will be nice and green from the rains. It should be beautiful.
If you can spare 2 days for this drive, and stay the night either in or around Cambria or Monterey, you can kind of play it by ear with regard to route. You could head up Hwy 101 to San Luis Obispo, and then either continue on Hwy 101 if the weather doesn't cooperate, or if it's nice and the road is open, you can take Hwy 1 from there and go through Big Sur. Hwy 1 and 101 almost meet up again in Monterey, so if you went up hwy 101, you could cut over to Monterey fairly quickly and see some coastline there. Point Lobos is spectacular and will give you a good idea of what Big Sur is like if you didn't get to drive through there.
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