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Route 66 – Olympics Avoidance – and Pacific Coast Highway

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Fri
20
Jan '23

PCH Day 2 – San Francisco

This was our first full day on PCH and we decided to have a ‘rest’ day … with 9km walking around San Francisco including Pier 39 and Alcatraz.

Fri
20
Jan '23

PCH Day 1 – London to San Francisco

After a comfy limo dash in the morning we were soon enjoying champagne and plant-based curries before our flight in the British Airways B gate lounge at Heathrow Terminal 5. A short while later, we were on the plane and just as I’d got everything in its place (and a place for everything), Alison demanded […]

Fri
20
Jan '23

PCH Flights – London to San Francisco and San Diego to London

British Airways were being a nightmare before we were due to fly: despite booking our Business Class flights many months earlier, a month before flying, BA emailed us to tell us they’d cancelled our flights from London Heathrow to San Francisco. When we’d been trying to fly out to Corralejo to move into our place […]

Wed
9
Feb '22

What’s New?

Well 10 years after doing my Route 66 trip on a Harley in August 2012 to celebrate being 50, I’m back with another plan for my 60th birthday (and to celebrate still being alive after my little incident in 2019): Pacific Coast Highway, North to South during summer 2022. We fly out business class to San […]

Thu
23
Aug '12

They’ve All Gone to Look For America

So then. I’m back and it’s a fortnight since the trip ended. It took over a week for me to stop waking up in the early hours of the morning, not knowing where I was and thinking I needed to get up and hit the road. The Big Trip wasn’t so much mind-blowing as mind-expanding. […]

Fri
10
Aug '12

Venice Beach and Home

More tearful farewells from the new friends I’d made throughout the morning as the group dispersed, and a small group of us headed off to Venice Beach (and Muscle Beach) for a wander around and to take a few photos. Walking back, we got a little lost so we saw more of Marina Del Rey […]

Thu
9
Aug '12

Barstow, CA to Santa Monica, California

Journey’s End! It was with a degree of sadness that we set out for our last day in the saddle leaving Barstow and heading for Santa Monica. On one section of Route 66 which, as was often the case, rang alongside a railway, we came upon one of those massive freight trains with 2 or […]

Wed
8
Aug '12

Las Vegas, NV to Barstow, California

Our plans changed again in the morning: we decided that as both the more direct roads to Barstow and the Route 66 route would be equally hot, especially in the Mojave Desert, we would go the ‘proper’ way. First stop was at Las Vegas Harley Davidson for more shopping. They have a bunch of amusing […]

Tue
7
Aug '12

Kingman, AZ to Las Vegas, Nevada

After a light breakfast {cough} at Mr D’z Route 66 Diner in Kingman, Arizona we set off towards Las Vegas. Due to the heat, I’d earlier developed heat rashes on my arms and chest and found it better when it was really hot to wear long sleeved T-shirts and to pull the buff up to cover […]

Mon
6
Aug '12

Grand Canyon to Kingman, Arizona

The day started off with a second visit to the Grand Canyon and a different viewpoint. The fact that you could – as I did – scramble down to the edge of the Canyon itself and look over the edge of a precariously balanced boulder added to the sense of wonder at the whole shebang. […]