Road Trip planning.
Nov 9th 2015, 11:18 pm
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Re: Road Trip planning.
Arrive Tuesday, see my mom Wed, dad on Thurs, Zoo on Friday, leave Saturday to get back home.
We don't get much time off up here, 10 days a year but my wife already used 3 of those days for her brothers wedding.
Nov 10th 2015, 3:23 am
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Re: Road Trip planning.
Alternatively, stop in a Les Schwab on your way down Oregon, buy some chains, and return them on the way back.
If you actually plan on using them, you get what you pay for. I used Thules on my Civic for years. Never needed to get behind the tire with those things, they ratcheted down, and released with a click.
Nov 10th 2015, 4:10 am
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Re: Road Trip planning.
If you don't plan on ever using them, cheap ones. (BTW, Oregon will check each vehicle if the conditions are nasty.) But practice on a dry road if it looks like you'll actually need them.
Alternatively, stop in a Les Schwab on your way down Oregon, buy some chains, and return them on the way back.
If you actually plan on using them, you get what you pay for. I used Thules on my Civic for years. Never needed to get behind the tire with those things, they ratcheted down, and released with a click.
Alternatively, stop in a Les Schwab on your way down Oregon, buy some chains, and return them on the way back.
If you actually plan on using them, you get what you pay for. I used Thules on my Civic for years. Never needed to get behind the tire with those things, they ratcheted down, and released with a click.
The main highway we use in BC only requires commercial vehicles to have chains.
We would just never use them here.
May just wait and see, if they are needed and stop somewhere ahead and buy some.
Do chains make a difference? They used to require them here on some highways, but 2 years ago changed the rules.
Nov 11th 2015, 5:31 pm
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Re: Road Trip planning.
Aside from the obvious point that I5 is fast but the coast is a lot (a... lot) better looking, two small tips:
1. I5 will take you right past Mt Shasta which is (in my opinion) one of the more underrated/under-visited spots in the entire country. It's very beautiful. Get off the highway and drive around a bit if you can in that area.
2. I would try to take at least a portion of the PCH south of San Francisco. Santa Cruz (one of my favorite small cities in the US), Monterrey and down through Carmel and Big Sur is rightly regarded as one of the great drives in the world. Cut back over to I5 thereafter.
1. I5 will take you right past Mt Shasta which is (in my opinion) one of the more underrated/under-visited spots in the entire country. It's very beautiful. Get off the highway and drive around a bit if you can in that area.
2. I would try to take at least a portion of the PCH south of San Francisco. Santa Cruz (one of my favorite small cities in the US), Monterrey and down through Carmel and Big Sur is rightly regarded as one of the great drives in the world. Cut back over to I5 thereafter.
Nov 11th 2015, 9:15 pm
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Re: Road Trip planning.
Aside from the obvious point that I5 is fast but the coast is a lot (a... lot) better looking, two small tips:
1. I5 will take you right past Mt Shasta which is (in my opinion) one of the more underrated/under-visited spots in the entire country. It's very beautiful. Get off the highway and drive around a bit if you can in that area.
2. I would try to take at least a portion of the PCH south of San Francisco. Santa Cruz (one of my favorite small cities in the US), Monterrey and down through Carmel and Big Sur is rightly regarded as one of the great drives in the world. Cut back over to I5 thereafter.
1. I5 will take you right past Mt Shasta which is (in my opinion) one of the more underrated/under-visited spots in the entire country. It's very beautiful. Get off the highway and drive around a bit if you can in that area.
2. I would try to take at least a portion of the PCH south of San Francisco. Santa Cruz (one of my favorite small cities in the US), Monterrey and down through Carmel and Big Sur is rightly regarded as one of the great drives in the world. Cut back over to I5 thereafter.
Driving through Shasta years ago we had to pull over and admire the beauty.
The tall redwoods and bluest natural lake I've ever seen... we jumped right in and splashed around.
Every year we talk about getting a house boat on the lake up there for a holiday.
