Travelling The PCH To See The West Coast For 4 Weeks It was a great trip travelling the PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) for 4 weeks down the west coast. We covered an amazing: 2200+ miles, 2 train trips, 3 airplane trips, 2 countries, 3 states and 13 hotels. We left from […]
Heading South To Our San Diego Rest Stop Getting off the ferry from Catalina Island in Newport Beach at dinner time, we hopped the little 3 car ferry to Balboa Island. We were soon on Hwy 1 heading south. There was no way we would miss repeating another part of […]
Taking the Ferry from Newport Beach For A Catalina Island Escape A key stop for our 4 week west coast trip was to be a trip to Catalina Island. We were taking the ferry to our Catalina Island escape and being the anal planners that we are, we spent some time checking […]
Ocean Stop for the Beaches at Newport Beach For the next stop on our 4 week West Coast trip, we took the longest route possible to travel the hour trip from Santa Monica to Newport Beach, continually leaving the main route to follow the water. We stopped at the Marine Street […]
Santa Monica Outside LA But Close Enough To Visit No trip down the west coast of the USA can be complete without seeing LA. When we looked for LA hotels, we debated being in the heart of the city (Beverly Hills, Hollywood, downtown) or staying by the water. We didn’t […]
Leaving Carmel It was time to head south again. Our next stop was planned, but we did not know we would get a Santa Barbara surprise. Had we known how much we would like Santa Barbara, we would have booked a longer stay. Getting ready to leave Carmel took […]
Carmel and Monterey Are Worth A Stop on the PCH We left San Francisco on Hwy 1 again headed for Carmel and Monterey. This provided us yet more awesome vistas of California surf. There were two decisions we had to make on our drive. Would we drive through Monterey on […]
Looking For Whale Tales in Oregon Coming down the Oregon coast at the start of our 4 week trip along the west coast, we were constantly on the lookout for whales. It was whale season and we could not leave the west coast without whale tales! Waking up early on […]
Our Favourite – The Jellies At the Monterey Bay Aquarium As we travelled along the west coast for 4 weeks, we knew we would find aquariums of various sizes along the way. We were told that the one we couldn’t miss was the Monterey Bay Aquarium. We were generally interested […]
Touring San Francisco In The Fog Leaving Napa late but in time to avoid any rush hour traffic going into San Fran, we chose the GPS path that would get us on the Golden Gate bridge. We were not sure what to do about the signs as we approached that […]
Giant Redwood Trees All Along Northern California Coast to Napa We left Yachats on the Oregon coast, aiming for our overnight stop on the northern California coast. Most queries about where to stop suggested that Eureka was the logical choice. It was the biggest town we hit on the coast, with […]
What To Do For Two Days on the Oregon Coast We arrived on the Oregon Coast in Portland from Seattle by Amtrak at Union Station. It was easy to walk outside to the bus station and get on the light rail line (LRT) (with one line change) to the Portland Airport. We […]
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