| 2006 Road trip - Los Osos CA to Vancouver
Canada and back; north on hwy 5; south via coastal routes.
Odometer start: 7,556 Odometer end: 11,095 Total
miles 3,539
Max speed ticker: 140MPH on empty
section of hwy 505 on 8/12  |
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8/10-San Luis Obispo CA ->
Mill Valley CA
Note to self: vote into
office anyone who will make it illegal to take a Winnebago onto Hwy
1 |
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Pigeon Point; Mill Valley house I stayed at-San Franciscan skyline
to the right, but all fogged in.
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| 8/11- Mill Valley CA->
Mount Shasta CA |
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Amphitheater before Friday's Pageant-Shasta in background;
Amphitheater during Saturday's musical section; Shasta Springs (Foundation
property); more Shasta Springs; Mount Shasta
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| 8/13-Mount Shasta CA ->
Eugene OR (Eugene is very green, forests all around and parks encompass
both sides of the river with bridges about every two miles to make
great walking/cycling loops). |
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Willamette river in Eugene; Skinner Butte Park; Skinner Butte Park
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| 8/14-Eugene OR ->
Portland (Portland is on the Willamette river also, very green, some
very nice spots, and some not so nice {standard big city}). I took
an evening yacht ride on the river, some insanely decadent houses
with their own water planes. |
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Willamette river from boat; my would-be house on the boat trip;
more river (better in person)
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| 8/16-Portland ->
Seattle (Seattle Center was great with the Science Fiction Museum
and Hall of Fame, and Experience Music Project (saw Hendrix's own
writing of his lyrics/guitars {the one he played at Woodstock no less}/clothes/paintings
from a mere two feet away). Edmonds, Bellvue, Mercer Island...all
very nice towns as well. Went to Redmond and hung out on the Microsoft
campus as well). |
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Gort from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" at the SFM;
Space Needle from parking lot; Space needle up close; Seattle business
district from Space Needle deck; Pike Place Market
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| 8/18-Seattle ->
Vancouver BC (Got into Vancouver around dusk drove around downtown
exploring, hard to get a hotel, stayed in Surrey). |
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Chuckanut Drive view; US-Canada boarder 1 & 2; Peace Arch; north
Vancouver bridge/lake from Stanley Park; Vancouver skyline over lake
at night (of course it's cool looking in person, lame on the photo).
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8/19-Vancouver BC ->
Bellingham WA (took too long in Vancouver parks and site-seeing, and
then got delayed at the border for random customs check to make much
headway south).
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| 8/20-Bellingham WA ->
Long Beach WA (Took the Port Townsend ferry from Whidbey Island to
get onto the peninsula, went to Hoh Rain Forest in the Olympic National
Park. Then headed down 101...nothing but miles and miles a huge trees
lining each side of the road, well there is always the ubiquitous
lakes and rivers too). |
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River on Whidbey Island; Port Townsend from car ferry,
typical Olympic Peninsula road 1 & 2; Hoh rain forest 1 &
2
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8/21-Long Beach WA ->
Gold Beach OR (weekday made it a buyers market on hotels, got great
deal on hotel overlooking the ocean)
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View of coastal town; coast view; Hotel room door to car to beach
(as it should be)
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| 8/22-Gold Beach OR ->
Mendicino CA (got distracted in the giant redwoods, Klamath, and searching
for Big Foot, so I didn't make it all the way to Marin). |
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Klamath, Klamath 2, redwoods, redwoods 2, Founder's Tree specs,
sign on redwood tree
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8/23-Mendicino
CA ->
Marin County CA
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8/26-Marin County CA ->
Half Moon Bay CA
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8/27-Half Moon Bay CA->
Morro Bay CA
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