There’s something strange about taking a few short days to make a big trip. Growing up, we used to do that kind of thing all the time: leave by car over Thanksgiving weekend to drive to Winter Park or Grand Targhee for two days of skiing before heading back in time for school Monday morning. When we got back, it always felt like we’d been on a long vacation even though we had only been away for a few days.

That’s exactly what our trip to San Francisco felt like; we were gone only five days, but it felt like we had been on vacation for weeks. We drove this route along the Pacific Coast Highway to San Francisco, spent three days there, and drove back. The drive down the coast was staggeringly beautiful - I can’t believe this kind of thing exists in our back yard. If you haven’t done it and have the opportunity to, do yourself a favor and make the trip. Just don’t try to read in the car - the road is a trifle twisty.

We drove from Seattle to Crescent City, California Wednesday night. Then, we started out along Highway 101 at about 7:00am Thursday and arrived in San Francisco around 11:00pm. There we spent two days kicking around town before meeting up with Pat and Val on Sunday who coincidentally were in San Francisco the same weekend for a wedding.

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