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Monty-Rob
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Jan 11, 2015

San Diego towards Sequoia Nat'l Park avoiding LA

Looked up routes avoiding LA from San Diego but get confused on exact routes to take. Some talk about the grapevine but unclear as to how hard a drive it might be going north. Slowly start north i...
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Jan 11, 2015
We just made the opposite trip- Visalia-San Diego. We took 58 out of Bakersfield, 395 south to I-15. We chose to drive thru LA area on a Sunday-so, very little traffic. Another word of caution regarding Tehachapi pass- be aware of foggy conditions! We drove through LA a few years ago on 5 and the roads were much worse. There were some huge potholes in the truck lane and no way to avoid them.

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