An Adventure Begins

Lynne and I have often talked of returning to the USA since our Coast to Coast drive in 2008 the story of which I blogged at http://gednlynnecrossusa.blogspot.co.uk/ 

Lynne has often expressed a desire to see the Big Sur coastal road North from LA toward San Fransisco and so that was the start of this trip's design. We enjoyed the extraordinary variety of National Parks which we visited in 2008 so we have developed a route taking in a selection of Parks reachable in a circular route out of LA starting with the Big Sur.

Last time, the driving force was the trans-continental, coast to coast aspect but the mileage was massive and almost half the trip was simply a long drive across the Eastern half of the continent.This time we are travelling for about the same time, 18 days, but have planned the mileage to be a bit lower to give more chance to relax.

We detected that many areas that we are visiting have limited accommodation so this trip is largely pre-booked after massive research on Tripadvisor and other sites by Lynne. It's not quite the adventure that the last trip was where we were finding accommodation wherever we were on the night and had the wonderful sense of progressing across the unknown.

3 days to go before we fly off and I have decided to attempt to blog again so here is the start. Hopefully I will succeed in entertaining anyone who decides to journey with us.

(Apologies if I get bored or Lynne gets fed up of me typing at night and I fail to meet your expectations.)