I've made the drive several times over the years and always see scenery that I did not remember from other trips. I start my drive though at Puget sound in Washington State and stay as close to the ocean as I can get all the way down. The road is curvy so don't expect to make very fast time on it, but as the story implies the scenery is unbelievable. In Oregon the small towns are right at he beach and stops to wander along some of them is absolutely great. In other locations you can stop and from clifs above see expansive stretches of what looks like unexplored beaches due to the height of the clifs and what a person would have to do to reach them. When you go through Tillamook Oregon you can stop at the cheese factory or you can explore old towns that were once playgrounds of the rich and famous of a hundred years ago and preserved as they must have been back then. California is a little more modern but still enjoyable in places where time has stood still. Take your time and explore or break it up and take several vacations and thoroughly explore. It took me three two weeks vacations just to see all the lighthouses along the stretch. So much to see in America wonder why anyone would want to tavel to another country.

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