CALIFORNIA
GETAWAY Driving the Pacific Coast Highway By Marvin Scott
America The Beautiful is music for the ears, but it’s a symphony for the eyes when they’re open wide enough to absorb the grandeur and beauty along California’s Pacific Coast Highway. It provides breathtaking views of the shimmering blue ocean with whitecaps washing over jagged rock formations millions of years old. For someone who generally finds driving a chore and tedious, this was a most enjoyable once-in-a-lifetime drive with plenty of twists and hairpin turns through the central 44
coast of California. It didn’t hurt that the friendly folks at Hertz put me behind the wheel of a Mercedes E350 for the 450 mile drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco. They even programmed the GPS for every stop we had planned along the way. If you’re in a hurry, there are alternate routes you can take to make the drive in one day. But take my advice, find the time to do it leisurely and stop often at the scenic turnouts in the road to inhale the sea air and visually absorb the gandeur of nature’s creation. My wife and I made it in a little over three days. w w w. Pas sp ort M a g a z i n e . u s