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!!