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Northern California Road Trip

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Every summer, Kim, mom and I get together for our annual summer vacation. This year they flew out to San Jose and we took a 6-day road trip to Napa, Yosemite and Gold Country. Frommer's 'California's Best-Loved Driving Tours' served as rough inspiration.

Route taken and entries by Real Traveler Tracy

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    Arriving & Upgrading

    San Jose, United States | Aug 04 '06 | Reviews: 1

    Mom and Kim arrive on Saturday (8/5). They’ve upgraded the rental car and we have a roomy white 4WD Subaru that will be much better for our road tr... Continue reading »

     see 1 photo »    see 1 place visited »  
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    Art & Wine

    Napa, United States | Aug 05 '06 | Reviews: 3

    Sunday, August 6

    Sunday morning we pack up and pile into the Subaru for the approximately 2 hour drive to Napa.

    Our first stop i... Continue reading »

     see 5 photos »    see 3 places visited »  
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    Water & Granite

    Yosemite National Park, United States | Aug 07 '06 | Reviews: 2

    Tuesday, August 8

    The next morning we began our 4+ hour drive to Yosemite. With 140 still closed due to a landslide, we took the windy... Continue reading »

     see 10 photos »    see 2 places visited »  
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    Gold & Charm

    Jamestown, United States | Aug 10 '06 | Reviews: 2

    From Bodie we headed north to 108 where we headed west for about 2.5 hours over the 9,624-foot Sonora pass, traversing beautiful, high alpine scene... Continue reading »

     see 3 photos »    see 2 places visited »  

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