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Some advice please! After our DL stay, we plan to drive down to San Diego. Is the PCH the best way to go? I'm sure it's the most scenic, just wondering how the traffic conditions can be.
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Some advice please! After our DL stay, we plan to drive down to San Diego. Is the PCH the best way to go? I'm sure it's the most scenic, just wondering how the traffic conditions can be.
As one who lives in San Diego and travels to DL every month, the route you want to take would depend upon how long you want to drive. The PCH drive can be beautiful in areas but it can also be one heck of a headache due to the number of cities you must go thru, all of the stop light, stop signs and other 'city' traffic. If on the other hand you want to come down the fastest way then I-5 is the only way to go. From DL to where we live in Mission Valley it is a 93 mile, 1 hour and 35 minute drive. Taking the PCH route would maybe be just a many miles, give or take 20 but the driving time could be nearly 3 or mor hours. Also PCH ends south of San Celmente at which time you have to take I-5 to go thru Camp Pendleton and when you got to Oceanside, you would exit I-5 and again pick up South Coast Highway (101) and when you got to La Jolla, you would have to get back onto I-5 because S. Coast Hightway gets lost in city development. PCH as I knew it as a kid is lost in many locations, just as in Route 66 from Santa Monica to Chicago is lost in many locations.
W-1st week of June, 2012. It's our daughter's graduation trip with us (she goes with the class someplace else). Who, me, anxious much? Pp's DO love to plan after all! Marnie-that's what I'm thinking too. Since we're making this a real "road trip", we need every second we can get! I'm sure we'll see the ocean at some point .
Actually, there's some gorgeous overlooks right off of the 5 south of San Clemente. And if you did want to actually dip your feet in the ocean, San Clemente is a great place to do it as there's a public beach less than a mile from the freeway. When we were driving to San Diego from my aunt's house in San Clemente last summer, we jumped off of the 5 south of Oceanside onto PCH to avoid an accident. At that point, PCH wasn't so great. You were not within sight of the ocean for most of the drive. It's cute little beach towns, but you get the idea in a couple of minutes.
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This thread just reminded me of a trip I took to CA a few years ago, and my cousins and I decided to drive UP the PCH towards Santa Monica...thinking oh, it'll be a nice drive along the ocean. Except, as you get towards LA it gets into some nice so nice areas. We were like, oh crap, we are in the barrio! So, it was an eventful drive. Needless to say, we took the interstate back.
Is San Clemente still a nice small town like it was when I was a kid?
My Dad had a big house up in the hills with a awesome ocean view. We use to hang out at the beach all day. I grew up in Huntington Beach, Still miss the ocean..
Is San Clemente still a nice small town like it was when I was a kid?
My Dad had a big house up in the hills with a awesome ocean view. We use to hang out at the beach all day. I grew up in Huntington Beach, Still miss the ocean..
Define 'nice small town'. Lol. I would not call it small in any sense if the word. lol. It has gotten rather large, I think there is something like 62,000 PLUS living there. There are still great views of the ocean from certain areas, maybe the same as when you remember it but housing has gotten much larger in numbers.
Every inch of land seems to be housing in southern Orange County. Seas of tract houses as far as the eye can see. There is still some parts worth seeing. I miss going down to Dana Point along Blue Lantern Road over looking the cliff. I miss Oceanside and Capistrano. Capistrano was where we would go for a ride and get lunch along the railroad tracks. There was a great restaurant in the depot that I spent a lot of time eating at. I need to get me a van and get back to taking road trips.
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I shall defer to your expert advice! That countdown isn't going fast enough for us 
Pp's DO love to plan after all! Marnie-that's what I'm thinking too. Since we're making this a real "road trip", we need every second we can get! I'm sure we'll see the ocean at some point 
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