Wow! I want thank all of you who responded from the bottom of my heart. What wonderful thoughts and advice. I would never have thought about the turn outs going north on the PCH, but of course it seems so obvious now going south is the much smarter course. We will definitely change course from inland on the first leg and going south along the coast. I will also do the point a to point b map/attraction trick. And thanks for the ideas of interesting things to see and do along the coast; I'm going to put them all in my itinerary. Thank you so very much.