I hate to differ, but while the road is pretty good, it is well
short of the greatest drives in an LBC.
The scenery is good, but there is too much traffic (esp. RVs),
too many police, and the road doesn't quite have the variation
that the greatest roads have.
My vote? Well, somewhat parochially I vote for "The Great Ocean Road"
here in my homestate of Victoria, Australia. Similar in the sense that it is
cut out of hills dropping down into the ocean. It has wonderful rises,
falls,
tight and fast sections, little traffic most of the time and the highway
patrol
is rarely seen. Even better there are sections that you can go absolutely
flat out and still be going at legal speeds!!!
Some other more memorable drives include the Black Spur (Maroondah Hwy
on the way to Marysville (Vic, Australia), the road west to Oban (Scotland)
on a beautiful sunny day in a Mini 1100S, the drive over the alps from
France
into Italy (and vica versa), the road to Grenoble, Skyline Drive (Bay Area),
the road to Mt Tamborine (sp?) north of SF, The Blue Ridge Parkway (and its
extension) [although the speed limits are too low and too many police].
I could go on......
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: George (Pete) Tolleson <gtoll@worldnet.att.net>
To: John J. Peloquin <peloquin@mamba.bio.uci.edu>
Cc: Dan Ray <danray@bluegrass.net>; mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC was Re: Paint Fumes or What? Now a flame El Nino
>John J. Peloquin wrote:
>
>> ...the PCH is possibly the BEST drive there is in an LBC. The stretch
>> from BIG SUR to just past Pacifica is absolutely AWESOME and is
>> something everyone should experience in their LBC at least once in >
their life. <
>
>I agree! Even though the LBC I drove it in was a ' 58 or '59 Ford
>Prefect, it was still awesome! (Too bad that trip was before the
>Morgan!)
>
>Pete
>'68 BGT
>
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