Happy Christmas!!

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all our followers and readers (I think we have a few, hopefully) a very merry Christmas.  I hope you are all having a great time and enjoying your day with family and friends.  Don't eat too much!!  Best wishes, Simon and Jilly.

PCH Road Trip

Here's a great article from National Geographic about the PCH.  This only covers the California part, however, it's a great taster and we can't wait to see all these places for real!

Road Trip: California's Pacific Coast Highway

Videos

I've been checking out You Tube for clips of Route 66 and the Pacific Coast Highway.  Here's a great one, a timelapse video of the whole of Route 66 - Chicago to LA - in 3 1/2 minutes!!

Chicago to LA in 3 Minutes on the Mother Road

Enjoy!

Tinkering

We're still tinkering with the route.  Although we have pretty much got it sorted, we are still open to suggestions and considering options.  We recently adjusted our route from Santa Fe to Albuquerque after the suggestion about the Turquoise Trail.  We have now decided to complete the whole of the Pacific Coast Highway from the Mexican border right up to Seattle - we were going to start from Santa Monica.  The main reason for that was that we finish Route 66 in Santa Monica and we have both been to San Diego before and I have done the route from San Diego to LA many times, so we thought it wasn't really necessary to travel down there and back.

However, we thought, "Why spoil the ship for a ha'peth of tar" (as the expression goes), and rather than spend 2 nights in Santa Monica, we will hand in the Harley, pick up the Mustang and shoot down the I5 to the Mexican border and start the PCH from the very beginning.  This serves 3 purposes: 1) we can spend a night in the beautiful city of La Jolla; 2) we will be able to say we've done the whole route; and 3) we can pop in to the Navy Exchange at the San Diego Naval Base and do a spot of shopping before heading North!  After 3 weeks of living out of saddle bags we will probably need a change of clothes and a few small luxuries!!

Route 66

If you are interested in Route 66 and never saw Billy Connolly's series then I suggest you get the DVD - it's well worth a watch.  And if you are ever planning to do it, have a look at this trailer to get the juices flowing!  In 9 months' time we shall be doing the very same, only on a Harley instead of a trike....

Enjoy!

Billy Connolly's Route 66 (trailer)