Plans have changed a bit for the West Coast roadtrip. First, it's going to be in September instead of May, which means I have to miss Nina's bat mitzvah, which sucks. But it's for a good reason. My friends Lauren and Scott are getting married in Hawaii (!!!) in September, and I want to squeeze everything into one trip to save a bunch of money. The Hawaii part has pretty much been planned by the couple (including some really awesome stuff), so that leaves the West Coast. Here's what I was thinking about today.
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This is the shorter of the two plans I've come up with so far. The other one had me driving down the coast of Oregon, but it turned a five-hour drive into nine, which means an extra hotel/campsite. And I'm already going to have plenty of California coast to drive, so I decided to take the speedy highway for the Oregon part instead.
In general:
Seattle -->
Mount St. Helens -->
Portland -->
Crater Lake -->
Cool Northern Californian coastal places with redwoods -->
Santa Rosa/Yosemite/wine country -->
San Francisco -->
Mountain View -->
Monterey -->
San Francisco (to drop off the car before heading to Hawaii!)
I've got three weeks. I might use the first few days of that vacation time to go to Fenwick with the family, so a little less than three weeks. It seems like so long now, but I have a feeling that once I actually get into the details of planning, it will seem like much less.
