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Road Trip

sunshine&rainbows — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 09:08:00 GMT

Planning a trip from the San Jose CA, heading up North to the Redwood National State Parks 101 North to Oregon. In no particular order, these are the places we will be visiting.

I want to take my husband through, Fairfield (Sears Raceway) on up through Lake County on up to Eureka and back down the coast hwy through San Mateo, Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino, Humboldt, Del Norte, Monterey Bay.

Visiting family on the way that live in Stanislaus, Alameda County, Sonoma County, Mendocino County, Humboldt, and Shasta County.

It is in celebration of my husbands retirement! : ) Our first big road trip together.

Take care of yourself so you can take care of others ~ sunshine&rainbows

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qualitygal — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 09:19:43 GMT

Love road trips!! Enjoy yourselves!!

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sunshine&rainbows — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 09:34:18 GMT

@qualitygal

Thank you!

I have a fear of flying, that will be the hard part of the trip!!! 51/2 hours over the ocean!

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qualitygal — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 09:41:09 GMT

I'm that way too, I use to try to hold my breath over bridges. I try to avoid bridges over water. I think it's a balance thing.

Braclets have a way of making me feel balanced, so maybe you need to do some shopping. LOL. I use any reason I can. LOL

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Desertdi — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 10:42:25 GMT

I will drive miles to avoid the Broadway tunnel in SF..................(although I rode the subway when I lived in Chicago years ago)

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Deb1010yetagain — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:09:13 GMT

@qualitygal wrote:
I'm that way too, I use to try to hold my breath over bridges. I try to avoid bridges over water. I think it's a balance thing.

Braclets have a way of making me feel balanced, so maybe you need to do some shopping. LOL. I use any reason I can. LOL

@qualitygal, what about the bridges around St. Petersburg Florida? they featured them on the movie "True Lies" where Jamie Lee Curtis is in a runaway limo on that long stretch of bridge and goes from hitting one side of guard rails to the other.

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qualitygal — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:19:36 GMT

@Deb1010yetagain, a few years back we visited my B&SIL at their place in Fla. on our way to Disney, and they took us over one heck of a long bridge, it was beautiful. Gave up breath holding on that too, plus the one that crosses lower and upper MI. Now that one was scarier to me.

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sunshine&rainbows — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 12:26:21 GMT

@Desertdi wrote:
I will drive miles to avoid the Broadway tunnel in SF..................(although I rode the subway when I lived in Chicago years ago)

@Desertdi

I am familiar with the Oakland Bay Bridge and San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge.

I do get nervous on the Bay Bridge because of earthquakes!

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azgal — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:11:43 GMT

They built a whole new section of the bay bridge that is suppose to withstand any earthquake. It opened in late 2013.

Your trip sounds wonderful. You will see some beautiful country!

ETA: I hope you get a chance to go to the Monterey Bay aquarium. It is really great.

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sfnative — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:21:23 GMT

@Sunshine&rainbows wrote:
Planning a trip from the San Jose CA, heading up North to the Redwood National State Parks 101 North to Oregon. In no particular order, these are the places we will be visiting.

I want to take my husband through, Fairfield (Sears Raceway) on up through Lake County on up to Eureka and back down the coast hwy through San Mateo, Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino, Humboldt, Del Norte, Monterey Bay.

Visiting family on the way that live in Stanislaus, Alameda County, Sonoma County, Mendocino County, Humboldt, and Shasta County.

It is in celebration of my husbands retirement! : ) Our first big road trip together.

Take care of yourself so you can take care of others ~ sunshine&rainbows

@sunshine&rainbows

Note: Sears Point Race way is not in Fairfield and it has a new name Also, if you're going to Monterey, be sure to continue down Highway 1 for several miles and take the Ocean Avenue exit for a visit to Carmel.

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sfnative — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:23:18 GMT

@Desertdi wrote:
I will drive miles to avoid the Broadway tunnel in SF..................(although I rode the subway when I lived in Chicago years ago)

@Desertdi

Wow - that's a short tunnel!!!

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sfnative — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:32:35 GMT

@azgal wrote:
They built a whole new section of the bay bridge that is suppose to withstand any earthquake. It opened in late 2013.

Your trip sounds wonderful. You will see some beautiful country!

ETA: I hope you get a chance to go to the Monterey Bay aquarium. It is really great.

@sunshine&rainbows

@azgal

After you've completed your visit to the aquarium, turn right when you exit and walk up a one block hill, crossing the railroad tracks to a major street. Proceed straight across the street, turn right and go down the block maybe halfway to "Vivalo's" family diner. It's white with blue trim and small. They make the best sour dough bread bowls with garlic, parm and butter lids placed briefly under the broiler. The bowl is filled with warming clam chowder.

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ladyroxanne — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:40:37 GMT

that is going to be a wonderful trip!

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sunshine&rainbows — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 22:54:40 GMT

@azgal wrote:
They built a whole new section of the bay bridge that is suppose to withstand any earthquake. It opened in late 2013.

Your trip sounds wonderful. You will see some beautiful country!

ETA: I hope you get a chance to go to the Monterey Bay aquarium. It is really great.

@azgal

I agree, beautiful country.

Our first date was at the Monterey Bay aquarium!!

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MaRina — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 22:56:14 GMT

We've been to most of the places you mentioned you will have a great time.

We are planning a Road trip to the Grand Canyon this summer. I Love road trips

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sunshine&rainbows — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 23:07:39 GMT

@sfnative

I am not sure if we went to "Cindy's Waterfront" or "Vivalo's" restaurant over looking the water! My husband reminded me I did get the clam chowder bowl.

Yes on traveling on hwy 1, thank you for the great suggestions...

I did not know they changed the name of Sears raceway, I realized after I wrote my post should of said on the way to Fairfield, you pass by it.

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sunshine&rainbows — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 23:11:27 GMT

@MaRina

Are you going out on the glass bridge? Or going to ride the donkey's down into the canyon? Sound so exciting, have a great trip!

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Kachina624 — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 23:43:03 GMT

My sister and I plus a retired bachelor cousin and a friend of his took a two week road trip to Banff and Jasper National Parks in Canada in 2013, leaving from Santa Fe. To make a long story short, we saw beautiful scenery and we were almost always in view of mountains. It was the trip of a lifetime. The two men behaved like total jerks and once we got home and tied up loose ends, we've never spoken to them again and don't intend to do so in the future.

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DottieBlue — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 00:03:59 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
My sister and I plus a retired bachelor cousin and a friend of his took a two week road trip to Banff and Jasper National Parks in Canada in 2013, leaving from Santa Fe. To make a long story short, we saw beautiful scenery and we were almost always in view of mountains. It was the trip of a lifetime. The two men behaved like total jerks and once we got home and tied up loose ends, we've never spoken to them again and don't intend to do so in the future.

You sure get to know someone when you live, work or travel with them, don't ya?

Several years ago one of my sisters and I left our husbands at home and we took a road trip. Had a wonderful time, and I also got to know my sister better. I also love road trips. Want to go on another one!

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GingerPeach — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 00:12:45 GMT

@sunshine&rainbows If you do happen to go to the former Sears Point Raceway (now called Sonoma Raceway), just off Hwy 37, be sure to take a side trip to the beautiful Viansa Winery just up the road on Hwy 121. It's like a bit of Tuscany.