Old 06-07-21, 03:38 PM
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mev
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Eugene can work fine. There is a reasonable airport and route 126 from there to the coast worked fine when I did it (by now a long time ago, 1998).

That year I was living in San Jose and did the Pacific Coast in three separate weeks: Vancouver to Eugene, Eugene to San Jose and San Jose to Tijuana. I was younger and faster then and took 8 days with stops in North Bend, Gold Beach, Orick, Myers Flat, Fort Bragg, Ocean Cove and San Jose.

If you get to the Bay Area too soon, the natural place to keep going is to San Luis Obispo and take Amtrak back to the Bay area (or all the way to Eugene/Portland if you want to make your flights be a round trip).
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