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[Mothertrucker]

The 210 is hardly ever clear anymore and around 5 pm will be even worse, but Westbound wont be nearly as bad as East, where it takes me 30 minutes to drive 10 miles at 5 pm..

But, in general, barring rain (LOL!) or an accident, (or a styrofoam coffee cup in the road), your route is what I would take...

[Tinkrbl44]

My vote (with decades of experience) is that you change your departure time ..... to like 10 am .... or 10 pm ....... or leave the following morning at 5 am.

Seriously.

[bikerbabe]

Are you sure you want to leave at 3pm? You'll have lots of traffic just getting through San Diego and temecula.

[sfnative]

OP here, again:

Thanks to everyone for your great advice.

Believe me - I hear you!!! My husband THINKS we can leave San Diego at 3 p.m. and make it to Santa Clarita in 3, yes 3, hours. NOT! I keep telling him it's going to take at least 5 hours and anyway why do we have to leave at 3 p.m.? I'm asking him the same questions as you. I think we ought to opt for spending a night in Temecula and then head north. He doesn't want to spend the $$$.

He said he would read your advice, so I've copied it over to a Word document. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Feline - Thanks for that SNL link - hahahahaha!

~Rebecca

[Tinkrbl44]

On 4/8/2015 sfnative said:

OP here, again:

Thanks to everyone for your great advice.

Believe me - I hear you!!! My husband THINKS we can leave San Diego at 3 p.m. and make it to Santa Clarita in 3, yes 3, hours. NOT! I keep telling him it's going to take at least 5 hours and anyway why do we have to leave at 3 p.m.? I'm asking him the same questions as you. I think we ought to opt for spending a night in Temecula and then head north. He doesn't want to spend the $$$.

He said he would read your advice, so I've copied it over to a Word document. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Feline - Thanks for that SNL link - hahahahaha!

~Rebecca

I'm betting that it will take at least 5-6 hours if you drive straight through, but will probably need to stop for dinner, making it 7-8 hours.

Moving is such an EXHAUSTING process .... why make it any harder than it has to be?

[Mothertrucker]

Why don't you go to www.sigalert.com plug in the southern california area, and SHOW him in real time, what the traffic is like at different times during the day along that exact route?

[OC FRESH]

3pm is the worst time to hit any of those fwys.

They'll all be bottle- necked and if there's a wreck, that'll make the trip even more special.

[Mysterri]

You are going to have one heck of an ugly drive if you leave at 3. If you think San Diego traffic is bad, just wait until you hit Riverside and San Bernardino County traffic at rush hour. Good luck with your move.