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Ben's 2017 Route 66 Adventure

Day 31
Thursday, June 1

Santa Rosa CA

Breakfast @ Sam's

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Jenner CA

PCH gets more interesting

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Road work: one lane at a time

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Point Arena CA

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Point Arena Lighthouse

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Manchester CA

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Elk CA

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Fort Bragg CA

For some reason this caught my eye. No, I didn't stop - too early in the day.

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Westport CA

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Leggett CA

A recent slide under repair

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PCH ends here, dumping onto US-101 to the Oregon border and beyond.

Just before getting on 101 is this treat:
the Drive Through Tree

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I drove past it at first - it didn't look possible to drive through it.

That gave me the chance to see some beautiful chain saw sculpture that I missed the first time around.

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The gatekeeper assured me that a Suburban drove through it the week
before, and he had been through it in his own Corvette. Ok, let's do it!

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Quite a few scrape marks along the walls!

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This was the actual clearance with the mirror!

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Check the fender clearance in the mirror...

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We made it!!!

Onward onto US-101 North

Eureka CA

Next 3 photos are at the same spot

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REALLY good calamari!

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Seen on the way back to the hotel...

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End Day 31

277 very scenic miles for the day

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That's 6956.5 miles from Chicago start

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