California's Best Trips 2 - Full PDF eBook

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1 San Diego
Begin at the bottom of
the state map, where
the pretty peninsular
beach town of Coronado
is connected to the San
Diego mainland by the
white-sand beaches
of the Silver Strand.
If you’ve seen Marilyn
Monroe cavort in
Some Like It Hot, you’ll
recognize the Hotel Del
Coronado, which has
hosted US presidents,
celebrities and royalty,
including the Prince
of Wales who gave up

his throne to marry

a Coronado divorcée.

Wander the turreted

palace’s labyrinthine

corridors, then quaff

tropical cocktails at

ocean-view Babcock &

Story Bar.

Be thrilled by driving

over the 2.1-mile-long

Coronado Bay Bridge.

Detour inland to Balboa

Park (for our self-guided

walking tour, see p292).

Head west, then south

to Point Loma’s Cabrillo

National Monument

(www.nps.gov/cabr; per car

$5; h9am-5pm, last entry

4:30pm; c) for captivating

Pacific Coast

1 Highways

Make.your.escape.from.California’s.tangled,.traffic-

jammed.freeways.and.cruise.in.the.slow.lane..Once.

you.get.rolling,.it’ll.be.almost.painful.to.leave.the.

ocean.behind.for.too.long..Officially,.only.the.short,.

sun-loving.stretch.of.Hwy.1.through.Orange.and.Los.

Angeles.Counties.can.legally.call.itself.Pacific.Coast.

Highway.(PCH)..But.never.mind.those.technicalities,.

because.equally.bewitching.ribbons.of.Hwy.1.and.

Hwy. 101 .await.all.along.this.route.