Comments on: Totally awesome LA to San Francisco drive – with free ebook!

By: James

James — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 01:48:27 +0000

If anyone in your party has a fear of heights, I suggest making the south to north journey so you’ll be against the mountains along the higher portions of the coast between Morro Bay and Monterey as opposed to being against the edge of the cliffs in you start from the north.

By: Megan Singleton

Megan Singleton — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 06:18:45 +0000

In reply to mary. Hi Mary, I'm glad this post has helped. We love Santa Monica for relaxing, shopping and eating out, so yes I'd suggest staying there for a couple of days first (I have some Santa Monica posts on the blog too, just type that in the search bar). I guess we did just leave our luggage in the car at Hearst. Make sure they're in the boot and you'll be fine. I've never had a car broken into in the US. Enjoy!

By: mary

mary — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 07:15:02 +0000

Hi Megan, Remarkably we have 5 days to do the exact same journey and you have basically done the leg work for us. I noticed you recommended stopping at Hearst Castle on day 3 Santa Barbara to Big Sur.. did that mean leaving your bags in the car for the few hours your at Hearst castle ? Did you think it was safe to do this ?
Also we are travelling from Australia and will be flying into LA. Do you recommend we go straight to Santa Monica and stay here for a couple of nights and then hire a car from here to start the 5 day drive ?

By: Selena

Selena — Fri, 31 May 2019 14:35:12 +0000

SFO has always been my favorite place to travel. You just made me nostalgic and I can’t wait to visit it again!

Selena

By: Megan

Megan — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 02:18:04 +0000

In reply to Rafael. Good to know!

By: Rafael

Rafael — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 02:10:50 +0000

Hello all,

Please, please, don’t refer to San Francisco as “San Fran” or “Frisco”, the locals abhor this reference to The City.

By: Megan

Megan — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 20:34:07 +0000

In reply to Martin O'Grady. I did it in 5 days. Could take as long or as short as you like though, depending on how much time you wanted to spend visiting the small coastal towns :)

By: Megan

Megan — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 20:32:51 +0000

In reply to NATHAN KING.

Hi Nathan
I would take the coastal PCH from LA via Santa Barbara and on to San Luis Obispo to visit Hearst castle and maybe stay there for the night, then for the sake of time you could take the 101 to San Fran in about 4 hours, but you’d miss the sweeping views of Big Sur. If you had a couple of extra hours, you could still take the coastal road all the way to Monterey and Carmel then duck inland from there and make your way to SF. Hope it works out! – Megan

By: NATHAN KING

NATHAN KING — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 19:11:03 +0000

Hello
I will be driving from LA to San Fran. I want to drive the PCH but do not have that much time like a day and half then we will be in San Francisco. I want to spend one night along the way. What would be the best parts of the PCH to drive and how do you recommend this being done.

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 20:08:56 +0000

Dear Megan,
I was on the look for a few tips, doing Los to SFO by car. Your description was soooo full of useful informations that I might risk it and doing this trip next november . ( 75 year old Brazilian)
Thanks and receive a big abraço ( our version of a hug kk) Marcelo