Holiday Recommendations?

San Francisco has a strange microclimate and is considerably cooler than surrounding areas but very much worth putting a jumper in the suitcase for.Far more interesting than LA. We used it as starting ponnt for our trip around much of California' Try to visit Sausalito either by car or boat across the bay.Weather is often much nicer, a lovely part of the world.

Considered the Winnebago idea but sometimes with a fair distance to cover or steep hills to climb a nice comfy powerful car is more appropriate. Plenty of decent cheap,clean and safe hotels around the state often with pools etc. Only place where that is not the case is close to Yosemite National Park (an amazing place).
At the risk of being considered a Philistine I think driving around the Grand Canyon area is boring. Initially stunning but after a time even elements of that great wonder become another odd shaped rock or bloody great crack in the earth with nothing else about. My preference was a helicopter trip that put down at various major sites(sights) and also enabled one to comprehend the sheer magnitude of the place. But each to their own.

Don't forget to tune in to your favourite type of music channel as all tastes are well provided for.
 
And don't forget that in Kentucky you can visit a number of bourbon makers, while in Lynchburg, Tennessee, that nice Mr Jack Daniels has open house at his distillery...
 
Originally posted by Tout Seul@Mar 20 2007, 11:36 PM
San Francisco has a strange microclimate and is considerably cooler than surrounding areas but very much worth putting a jumper in the suitcase for.Far more interesting than LA. We used it as starting ponnt for our trip around much of California' Try to visit Sausalito either by car or boat across the bay.Weather is often much nicer, a lovely part of the world.

Considered the Winnebago idea but sometimes with a fair distance to cover or steep hills to climb a nice comfy powerful car is more appropriate. Plenty of decent cheap,clean and safe hotels around the state often with pools etc. Only place where that is not the case is close to Yosemite National Park (an amazing place).
At the risk of being considered a Philistine I think driving around the Grand Canyon area is boring. Initially stunning but after a time even elements of that great wonder become another odd shaped rock or bloody great crack in the earth with nothing else about. My preference was a helicopter trip that put down at various major sites(sights) and also enabled one to comprehend the sheer magnitude of the place. But each to their own.

Don't forget to tune in to your favourite type of music channel as all tastes are well provided for.
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Mark Twain said something like, "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco". Take a sweater and look out for the bush man.
 
But that was back then, when the climate wasn't changing... is it still chilly? I was there for my one and only visit in 1975 and as we know, that was the end of the postwar cold snap, prior to world temperatures rising. It was lovely weather, but like any coastal region, prone to chilly sea mists coming in.
 
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