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 15 to Bodega Bay

Shorty before noon today we headed out for another short leg to get back on the PCH and into some cooler weather. We arrived at

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Leg 17 to Redcrest, CA

Well HWY 1 is officially in the books as we finished this California landmark. As posted previously, we chickened out going any further North on

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Leg 19 to Florence, OR

Adios California and $4.60+ gas prices and hello Oregon. Leg 19 takes us to Florence, OR and the Darlings RV Resort and Marina. We must

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Leg 20 to Newport, OR

Another short leg brings us to Newport, OR about 60 miles North from our last locale. We took our time getting here and stopped at

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Happy 4th of July!

Our second major holiday away from home and we are missing all our friends and family cooking out and enjoying not being in the crowds.

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Depoe Bay Trip

Well after a disappointing dinner at the Pacific Kitchen, the next couple of days had some ups and downs. I did take the opportunity to

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1/2 Way Point

Today we mark the 1/2 point of our journey. Over 71 hours of driving, 2970 miles and many wonderful memories in our rearview we look

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Cleaning in Bothell

Not much to blog about thus far in Bothell at the Lake Pleasant RV Park. After arriving Monday, we have pretty much stuck to housekeeping

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Morgan Visit

For the second time on this adventure, we got to see Morgan and Blake. We met up at the her roommate Alex’s wedding and then

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North Cascades NP

After 2 days of some pretty crappy air from the fires, we decided to get out and see one of the national parks on our

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Leg 25 to Wenachee, WA

After nearly a month in Seattle, minus the Texas trip, we said goodbye to the Pacific Coast and headed East. Our first stopover is actually

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Leg 29 to Yellowstone

Thursday we headed south to West Yellowstone, MT in preparation of our next National Parks visit. We again stayed on the west side of the

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