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Woodtroll
Dec 10, 2013Explorer
Thanks, everyone, for all your help. There is a lot of very useful information here that we will try to absorb and use for our planning. Thanks also for those who took the time to offer messages and phone calls for individual discussions- I really do appreciate that.
Based on some of the things we've learned here, and the different prices of flights into different cities and the varied rental car costs, we are now considering the following: fly into Sacramento, rent a car, drive southwest to the coast near San Luis Obispo, drive north looking at the sea lions, sights, and little towns until we get to the redwoods, spend a day or two up there, and then turn inland and drive back down to Sacramento. We'd really like to squeeze in at least a day trip to Yosemite if we can manage the time. I know that we will only have time to scratch the surface in lots of places by trying to cover this much ground in 7-9 days, but we'd like to take in a broad overview of the state. Any suggestions on this plan?
Thanks again!
Regan
Based on some of the things we've learned here, and the different prices of flights into different cities and the varied rental car costs, we are now considering the following: fly into Sacramento, rent a car, drive southwest to the coast near San Luis Obispo, drive north looking at the sea lions, sights, and little towns until we get to the redwoods, spend a day or two up there, and then turn inland and drive back down to Sacramento. We'd really like to squeeze in at least a day trip to Yosemite if we can manage the time. I know that we will only have time to scratch the surface in lots of places by trying to cover this much ground in 7-9 days, but we'd like to take in a broad overview of the state. Any suggestions on this plan?
Thanks again!
Regan
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