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Not sure if this drive would fit into your plans since you're driving south in Oregon on 101 but I love the drive from Grants Pass to Crescent City, CA on Hwy 199 through the Redwoods! Thoroughly enjoyable twisty drive (except when you get caught behind a beater pickup that has to brake for EVERY corner and there's no place for miles to pass).
I drove up the CA coast and then Hwy 199 mentioned above in December when I picked up my new car in San Diego. I'll be doing the drive again this June with my wife when I'm driving back from Spring Mountain. https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.cor...9778f7b38f.jpg |
As others have mentioned, weather can be a big factor on this trip. A friend had his C6 shipped to Seattle several summers ago, followed the coast to San Diego, then headed home to Chicago. They both loved it.
OTOH, we tried something similar in last month, shipping to Sacramento. It was a disaster. The shipping company (Montway) was supposed to provide an enclosed truck, but they screwed me around until my only choice was to accept open shipping or cancel the trip. I took the open and our car arrived several days late in Sacramento, covered with a half inch of frozen mud from all the junk they put on the roads in the mountains. I was scooping big handfuls of sand and mud from the areas in front of the windshield for a day. Even the interiors of the doors must be full of mud- when I wash the car, mud (not muddy water) runs out the drain holes in the bottoms of the doors even after 6 washings. The "Terms of Service" for Montway (and probably most other shippers) take six pages to print out, but you can condense them into one sentence: "We'll pick up your car when we get around to it, deliver it when we feel like it, and anything that goes wrong is not our fault." We could only go as far as Monterey along the coast, Hwy 1 was closed in two places in late January and when I looked a few days ago, it was closed in six places. We went inland to 101 and had a nice drive to Hearst Castle but nothing like the coast highway. |
Originally Posted by rw99
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Really sorry to report that the Pfeiffer Canyon bridge is damaged beyond repair:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/S...d-10951909.php This "breaks" Hwy 1 between Monterey/Carmel and San Simeon/Cambria/San Luis Obispo, which is a real shame. An alternative to the alternative Hwy 101: check out SR25, which is further inland. Much more open road, scenic in a different way. South from Hollister... you still have to come back to 101 to get down to Paso Robles (and back over to Hwy 1), but SR25 allows you much more room to use the throttle. Caveat: I've got no idea how well SR25 has fared in all this rain. Best, Rich |
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