Pacific Coast Trip

West Coast Loop & National Parks

This page is our trip log from the recently completed ten state, 6643 mile adventure.  We took 5 months and 5 days to travel up the Pacific Coast Highway and Hwy 101 to Seattle then cut across to West Glacier National Park, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons and the Utah 5.  From there we headed over to Las Vegas for a week then back East on I 40 to visit Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, Carlsbad and Guadalupe National Parks.  

Leg 1 Fort Stockton

The West Coast Loop is officially underway. With an earlier than anticipated departure due to weather and additional stopover, we arrived at Fort Stockton RV

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Leg 2 Van Horn

Our second travel day and we are in Van Horn, Texas. For those from here, Im sorry. We got some more foul weather blowing in

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Leg 3 Benson, AZ

Today will be one of the longer legs of our trip. We drove from Van Horn, TX to Benson, AZ for a total of about

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Saguaro National Park

Today we visited our first national park on the list which is Saguaro just outside Tuscon, AZ. We got there pretty early but not early

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Leg 4 to Yuma

Today we left Benson, AZ after 4 nights there and headed to Yuma, AZ for a one nighter at the Blue Sky Resort. Winds have

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Leg 5 to Chula Vista

Chula Vista RV Resort was the destination for todays leg of the trip. It was not fun cutting through the mountains on I-8 but then

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Leg 6 to Long Beach

Todays trek takes us to Long Beach, CA where we will spend two nights before heading North to Malibu and actually get on the PCH.

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Family Reunion

After 1 1/2 years, 3M was finally reunited earlier than anticipated. It was sure good to see Morgan again. She is such an LA Woman

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Leg 7 to Malibu

After the shortest leg of the trip, we arrived in Malibu on Mothers Day. Malibu RV Resort has by far the best view of any

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Mothers Day in Malibu

Today we did double celebration in Malibu. First of all we celebrated Myra’s mothers day with Morgan and Blake with a little cocktail on the

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Channel Islands NP

After a couple of days of taking it easy with visits to Morgans shop and Blakes restaurant, we ventured today to the Channel Islands National

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San Simeon Day Trip

Headed out to San Simeon for a little day trip today. Weather here along the coast has been exceptionally windy and will continue today so

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Jelly Belly & Napa Tour

With triple digit temperature since we arrived on Sunday, we did not feel up to many outdoor activities. We took the opportunity to get some

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Leg 13 to Napa, CA

Today we took a short ride to our next camp site at the Skyline Wilderness Park. This park is actually located in Napa about 15

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Yountville Tastings

A beautiful 73 degree day brought us to Yountville, CA for an early lunch at Bistro Jeanty in Yountville. This is a great little French

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Tasting Time

After a week of training, we set out bright and early today to sample wines from four vineyards. We started out at one of our

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Battery Spencer

Busy day today as we started with a morning of laundry. Sure does interfere with getting stuff done. We called in a sandwich delivery from

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Tour of Alcatraz

The Rock was on the schedule for today so after dropping off the dog at day care, we took the Larkspur Ferry to the big

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