The legendary San Francisco to Los Angeles roadtrip is, of course, epic. Driving the Pacific Coast Highway is on many people’s bucket lists, and it was certainly one of my ‘must-dos’. Despite having driven around the USA for the last 5 months, we put a lot of thought when planning this stretch of the roadtrip, as my mother was visiting us from Portugal, and we would need to cut down as many long stretches of driving as possible. In this article I’m sharing what we did, plus what I wish we had done instead, as now we’ve been through it, there are some things I wish I had known before setting off. Hopefully if you’re planning your own San Francisco to Los Angeles roadtrip, it will be of some help. Time was tight and we planned the drive over 3 days, including two nights in Avila, which is located near San Luis Obispo. If I could do it differently, I would stop in Monterrey/Carmel for one night, and spend another night in Big Sur/Avila as it would’ve given us more time to explore both Monterrey and Carmel, but also drive through Big Sur during the day (more on that later!). I knew we’d been lucky during our […]
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