![]() ![]() The dining scene is great, there is a super cute former 1950s motel, now boutique hotel to stay at and of course – the surf. We recently stayed a night in Malibu and loved it. Tip: put Malibu into your GPS if you are unsure of how to get to the coastal road in LA. ![]() Three clusters of shops and eating places with brands like Gap, Banana Republic, Forever 21, North Face, Nine West, Calvin Klein, all at ridiculously cheap prices, although all end of summer stock when we went. Just 40 minutes north of Santa Monica are the Camarillo Shopping Outlets. However, once onto it, we fooled the GPS by putting in coastal destinations along our route and adding new towns as we went. ![]() Hence my cousin Kate and I taking off the wrong way for the first mile inland to the Los Angeles freeway. Why? Your GPS will try and take you on the shortest route from Los Angeles via the interior I-5 road rather than the scenic route. It’s a doddle! Don’t be scared.īut secondly, make sure you have a GPS or data roaming plan to use maps on your phone if you actually want a coastal drive. I’ve put this lengthy blog post into a downloadable pdf for you to print out and take with you, with added content from some of the cities we stayed at (including Malibu)! Download for FREEįirstly, if you are reading this from another country and are not used to driving on the right, let’s allay all fears of driving in the Unites States. How long does it take to drive from LA to SF? The drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco can be done in six to eight hours if you put your foot down, but why would you when there are so many gorgeous towns to stop at and things to do along the way?! In fact with so many things to do on your Los Angeles Bucket List, you could spend a week exploring LA before you even get started on your Pacific Coast Highway road trip. Plus stops in San Luis Obispo, Hearst Castle, Carmel, Pebble Beach and Monterey Bay. My California road trip includes Santa Monica, Santa Barbara, Big Sur, Santa Cruz, San Francisco There are actually so many great places to stop along the PCH we could have taken 10 days on this amazing coastal LA to San Francisco drive and still not been bored! We saw so many orca whales and the scenery is spectacular.But I only had five days to drive from LA to San Fran, so we flew into LAX and out of SFO, got a one way car rental and dropped it off right beside our San Francisco hotel, The Handlery. Start with orca whale watching (plus minkes and humpbacks) about 30 miles north of Seattle in Everett, where the Cascades Loop Drive officially begins. We drove in a clockwise direction, merely because we were not completing the loop but continuing into Idaho, so it made sense for what we wanted to see and do in the Cascades region. There is hot debate over which direction it is best to drive the Cascades Loop. The route contains three of the state’s designated scenic byways-the Stevens Pass Greenway, North Cascades Highway, and the Whidbey Scenic Isle Way. Touted as Washington State’s Ultimate Road Trip, the Cascades Loop encompasses pristine mountains, grand rivers, picturesque islands, and rolling river valleys.
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