Northern California Road Trip - TON of pic

[r0ng5]

I decided to visit Northern California for the weekend and took the following pictures. Things I learned from this trip:

1. Pacific Coast Highway (Highway 1) is AWESOME!!! 3 hour of blissfulness

2. Northern California gas-station exits are HELL. Almost got stuck in Santa Cruz

3. Hwy 41 (connecting pass between I-5 and 101) is a fun, secluded road. Definitely recommend!

Enough jabbering.. onward with the pics:

Pretty cool tunnel in Gaviota area:

1st stop in Pismo Beach:

Park in Pismo:

trying to get fancy wit it:

Random side road off the 101 past Pismo (pee break):

Pacific Coast Highway

Route 41.. on the way back from NorCal:

And lastly, my ugly mug:

Hope you guys enjoy!

 

[Joser281]

How long did the trip take you to do? I would guess a 3 day weekend, maybe?

 

[Scott_0]

great pics! thanks for sharing. I absolutely love California, my wife and I have did the drive LA to SF a few times while vacationing out there

 

[Boozshey]

This makes me want to just hit the road and forget about everything!!!

 

[iRoush]

This makes me want to just hit the road and forget about everything!!!

Ditto!! Road trip when you get back buddy!

 

[r0ng5]

How long did the trip take you to do? I would guess a 3 day weekend, maybe?

trip took 8 hours to go up (we stopped a lot) and the trip back took 7 hours. I went from Santa Barbara --> Sacramento --> Santa Barbara

And thank you all for the comments. It was actually a nice, relaxing trip. The nice roads were just a bonus. I did absolutely no research when I left, just decided on a destination. Originally, it was a "Triple-D" trip... stopping by any places that Guy Fieri (from Food Network's Diners, Drive-ins, and dives) has stopped at. We just ended up going to eat anywhere that looked good.

 

[FalconGTHO]

Cool shit. I want to do the whole PCH from SoCal to WA at some point. And in both directions. Thing is all those cool "photo stops" impacts on the kick ass driving aspect so Id love to do it twice. Once for pics and stops and the second for just straight through, kick ass, fun driving.

Can you post the "vacant road" pic in original, untouched size plz?

 

[r0ng5]

Cool shit. I want to do the whole PCH from SoCal to WA at some point. And in both directions. Thing is all those cool "photo stops" impacts on the kick ass driving aspect so Id love to do it twice. Once for pics and stops and the second for just straight through, kick ass, fun driving.

Can you post the "vacant road" pic in original, untouched size plz?

i'm with you on this. PM sent!

 

[AK83]

Awesome pics!

 

[Joser281]

trip took 8 hours to go up (we stopped a lot) and the trip back took 7 hours. I went from Santa Barbara --> Sacramento --> Santa Barbara

Cool, I'm down if you ever gonna do it again. I've been thinking of doing a PCH cruise with Santa Barbara being on of the stop to check out, so we can meet up at your town and head on up.

 

[r0ng5]

Cool, I'm down if you ever gonna do it again. I've been thinking of doing a PCH cruise with Santa Barbara being on of the stop to check out, so we can meet up at your town and head on up.

sounds good, i'm down.

 

[loots06]

Awesome...why no pics of the Bixie Brigde!

 

[Vapour Trails]

I did all of the PCH (in Cali, that is) in 2009. Amazing sites, amazing trip.

 

[fastduo]

I made the PCH trip from San Fransisco to Long Beach in 2006. It was awsome. We had reserved a Mustang Convertible for the trip but when we go to the AVIS in San Fran, we ended up with a triple beige New Beetle Conv. It was a fun car to take on the twisties with the manu-matic transmission.

Can't wait to make that trip again.