Per and Kim Go Driving Jan 24, 2008
For some reason, I got this idea that it would be fun to fly into Seattle and drive down to Los Angeles. It’s like 1200 or 1300 miles one way. Now, that might have been okay, but we decided that we wanted to actually see stuff along the way. So, we drove 2000 miles in four days. We arrived in Seattle on Thursday afternoon, then drove halfway around the Olympic peninsula to Port Angeles. From there we drove down the Washington coast to Astoria, Ore., at which point we went inland to Vancouver, Wash., and Portland, Ore. We turned south and wound up spending Friday night in Eugene, Ore. After that, we drove back out to the coast, down to Coos Bay, then turned inland again to Crater Lake and Klamath, where we spent Saturday night. Sunday was even more hectic as we had to get from Klamath to San Jose/Santa Cruz, Calif.—but we also wanted to see the redwoods. So, we drove up over the passes through Shasta National Park (it’s winter, so of course it was snowing pretty good) down to Redding, Calif., then out to the coast and down CA101 to San Francisco (with a quick detour into downtown and down Lombard St.). Monday was a piece of cake: just PCH to 101 into L.A. so I could drop Kim off at LAX. Oh, but I had a photoshoot that morning so we couldn’t leave Santa Cruz until about noon. I’m still out here in California at a conference.
Only a small percentage of our travels were actually on an interstate. It was a great way to see this area of the country.
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