Our second day of travel from San Diego to Surrey had us starting in Santa Cruz which is only an hour south of San Francisco. The shorter route would have been the Bay Bridge but I've always wanted to drive over the Golden Gate Bridge. I've been to San Francisco but there was no need to travel over the bridge while I was there so this was an opportunity to rectify that. It was of course slightly less exciting than anticipated as it was quite foggy on all sides. Still good to be able to say we drove over it before the big earth quake destroys it.
Although the I-5 is the quicker route through California, because we were taking 3 days to travel, we were able to take the more scenic route. This included the 101 which goes along the coast of Northern California and Oregon. Wherever we came close to the ocean there were always a lot of waves making for a very scenic drive. The road itself was generally pretty good, with speed limits of 65 and not a lot of traffic. There were a few areas with some tight curves but they were in the forest so we could enjoy the scenery as we went.
As it turned out, this was still a long day of driving, even though we split the trip into three days. We were on the road for 14 1/2 hours including stops today so when we did stop we couldn't stay long. The one item we regretted not being able to do was the Trees of Mystery which was an old growth stand off the highway. Getting there would have been a 20 minute walk plus a 7 minute tram just to get to the forest and we didn't have time to do it. We did still check out the gift shop which was fun as it included some very large statues of Paul Bunyan and his ox Blue. Our destination today was Newport.
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