Friday we travel to Auckland and after day-use of an hotel, back on the plane to LA arriving just after 12 midday on Saturday September 9. We’ll spend the weekend at Manhattan Beach before travelling the length of the Californian Pacific Highway and the coastal route thru Oregon and Washington State to Vancouver and the capital of BC, Victoria.
Early on in our journey we will digress inland to Visalia and the Sequoia national park—home of the giant Redwood trees. We will also attempt the forest trails drive through the Sierra Nevada mountains in our rental car, which it is said, is the best off-road vehicle of all.
Yosemite National Park is next on our list before heading back to the coast near San Francisco, the Napa Valley, lobster bisque on the wharf and check out Apple in Silicon Valley.
After nearly a month of touring the Pacific coastline we board Explorer of the Seas in Seattle on October 6 and sail across the Pacific back to Sydney, arriving October 29.
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Hug a big tree
As familiar as Sydney Harbour Bridge
Autumn colours in the Butchart Gardens in Victoria B.C.
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