On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:21:41 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote:
>
> wrote in message
>news:fd1a35ac-5744-4942-ad2a-cb159f35ab7b@h11g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>> The trip I take, and recommend to others, is described on the page of
>> DRIVING DIRECTIONS at the TouringSFO site at
>> http://geocities.com/touringsfo/
>> and further detailed in the report "A Trip to Anaheim..." inked to it.
>>
>> As Hatunen pointed out, you won't be near the PCH until you get to
>> Oxnard, about 330 miles from San Francisco's City Hall, beyond Santa
>> Barbara.
>
>On the History Channel they had a special on building the coast highway.
>The point out that the PCH is really only the far south part of the road,
>but the whole route to Washington State from California is commonly referred
>to as the Pacific Coast Highway.
Apparently by people who don't live along it. I spent sixteen
years living within a mile or so of CA-1, and using parts of it
every day, and I heard no one in the SF Bay ever, ever refer to
it as "Pacific Coast Highway". But somewhere there was probably
someone, probably a newcomer.
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