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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SacramentoMike" data-source="post: 1421159" data-attributes="member: 11508">There are lots of great roads in NoCal and plenty of leeway in picking "favorites," so it's all just opinions.  So much depends on what time of day you happen to come to a place where you have to decide "which way now?"  You don't want to ride in the peak heat of the day in inland California (and it keeps heating up here until 4 or 5 in the afternoon--generally it's still pretty pleasant even here in the central valley, all the way from Bakersfield to Redding, until at least noon or 1:00.  But you'll also be thinking about finding a decent motel at the end of the day's driving and other factors.So it's all a balancing act.  I will tell you that if it's good and hot in the valley, it will be good and hot between Willits and Healdsburg and beyond.  The coast is always cooler.  But that stretch from Jenner north to Ft. Bragg and then on to Leggett is really spectacular.  It will still be cooler by Leggett and if you go north from there on 101 toward Eureka it stays cool.  You could make the Eureka Inn a day's goal.  Neat old Victorian-style hotel.  Your wife will love it, and not expensive.One reason I LOVE that Jenner-Leggett leg, beyond the view, the twisting roads, the great redwood forests, and the cool, is it's freaking EMPTY!  You'll have it all to yourself, for miles and miles at a time.  Hard to beat.  (edited to add: Ask Google about routes from any of those points along the coast, like Jenner, up to Eureka.  They send you inland from just about every point.  Guess they don't think people want to drive along the edges of steep hillsides.  And frankly, it's too curvy to be comfortable in a car.  But some fun on a ;bike.  Even a Harley.)  <img src="https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/wink.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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