Pacific Coast Hwy and CA Loop
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Hearst Castle is worth a stop, amazing place. Here's a few suggestions for other stops along the PCH near Big Sur - Fernwood Resort. Great bar, good food you can eat out on the deck under the redwoods, motel is ok, but nothing fancy. Lucia is another good stop for lunch, never stayed there but it has some cool looking motel rooms overlooking the ocean. Ragged Point is cool, food, bar, motel overlooking the water. Nepenthe is another cool stop, touristy and expensive though.
Also, if you are going westward through Yosemite on 120, be sure to stop in Groveland at the Iron Door Saloon, great bar+restaurant, lot of history there.
Also, if you are going westward through Yosemite on 120, be sure to stop in Groveland at the Iron Door Saloon, great bar+restaurant, lot of history there.
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Yes our plan is to take 89 out of Tahoe to Rt 4 west to 49 to 120. That way we get to see the west side of the mountains before we cross over the next day and go down 395. I hear that 395 is HOT HOT HOT this time of year so I may have to reconsider. Thanks for the suggestions
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Thanks Deuuuce. Yes I have for my wife a vest and neck bandanna that horse riders use. You pour water on it and it stays cool for several hours. We did pack them so she will be ok. I'm usually good in the heat as I stay real hydrated.
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Bodie State Park
Thanks DPete and Freebirdsride1 for the heads up on teh dirt road out to Bodie State Park. Dirt roads are ok with me as long as they don't have a lot of really deep pot holes. Washboard I can handle. We will get out there and assess. If its too bad we will just skip it. The beauty of being on vacation. Thanks again
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Hearst Castle is worth a stop, amazing place. Here's a few suggestions for other stops along the PCH near Big Sur - Fernwood Resort. Great bar, good food you can eat out on the deck under the redwoods, motel is ok, but nothing fancy. Lucia is another good stop for lunch, never stayed there but it has some cool looking motel rooms overlooking the ocean. Ragged Point is cool, food, bar, motel overlooking the water. Nepenthe is another cool stop, touristy and expensive though.
Also, if you are going westward through Yosemite on 120, be sure to stop in Groveland at the Iron Door Saloon, great bar+restaurant, lot of history there.
Also, if you are going westward through Yosemite on 120, be sure to stop in Groveland at the Iron Door Saloon, great bar+restaurant, lot of history there.
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Yes our plan is to take 89 out of Tahoe to Rt 4 west to 49 to 120. That way we get to see the west side of the mountains before we cross over the next day and go down 395. I hear that 395 is HOT HOT HOT this time of year so I may have to reconsider. Thanks for the suggestions
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So how would you do this? Looks like I'd have to go down west out of Yosemite maybe on 41 into Fresno and out 180 to 198?
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Sounds great. Now what would be a suggested route from Sequoia to LA as that is where I will have to be the following evening?
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OldHippie, was looking at this as a plan out of Yosemite to LA. What do you think?
South on 41 to Rd 222 to 168 to 180 to 198 and stay the night in Visalia, CA. Then the next morning just bust down 99 and 5 to get to LA so we can spend some time knocking around that city.
South on 41 to Rd 222 to 168 to 180 to 198 and stay the night in Visalia, CA. Then the next morning just bust down 99 and 5 to get to LA so we can spend some time knocking around that city.