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A review by nina_rod
Pacific Coasting: A Guide to the Ultimate Road Trip, from Southern California to the Pacific Northwest by Danielle Kroll
5.0
Sometime I lament that I never go anywhere or do anything. So I bought this book to change that. With Covid, maybe trips near home might be a good idea. I call the Pacific Northwest home. Reading this book, I realized, I do go places! I’ve Pacific Coasted from Mid-California to mid-Oregon. So long and boring, I wouldn’t recommend again. But found gems like Eureka, CA and Florence, OR. Then I Pacific Coasted Tillamook, Oregon up through Astoria and found I loved the Northern Oregon Coast. So much so I did this trip twice and want to do it again with my friend, an Oregon Coast virgin this summer.
And what I like most about this book, is that Pacific Coasting doesn’t end at the upper Pacific Coast tip of Washington State. It instead loops inward around the Olympic National Forest, meanders around through Puget Sound and ends in Seattle. It even offers a side trip to Vancouver Island, Canada!
And I have done the road trip from Victoria and up though the interior Coast of Vancouver Island. This book recommends Victoria to the outer Coast of Vancouver Island. I have wanted to try this!
I have also done the loop around the Olympic National Forest. So maybe I bought this book not as an effort to do something... but to do it again!
The book is full of art that makes it an enjoyable book to wander through. But recommendations of what to do in Seattle are only two pages, so not a comprehensive resource for road tripping, but makes you excited about discovering possibilities and offers ideas to research further.
My daughter saw me reading the illustrated book and said “Oh, I like books like that.” It’s a great visual treat.
And remember folks... West Coast, Best Coast!
And what I like most about this book, is that Pacific Coasting doesn’t end at the upper Pacific Coast tip of Washington State. It instead loops inward around the Olympic National Forest, meanders around through Puget Sound and ends in Seattle. It even offers a side trip to Vancouver Island, Canada!
And I have done the road trip from Victoria and up though the interior Coast of Vancouver Island. This book recommends Victoria to the outer Coast of Vancouver Island. I have wanted to try this!
I have also done the loop around the Olympic National Forest. So maybe I bought this book not as an effort to do something... but to do it again!
The book is full of art that makes it an enjoyable book to wander through. But recommendations of what to do in Seattle are only two pages, so not a comprehensive resource for road tripping, but makes you excited about discovering possibilities and offers ideas to research further.
My daughter saw me reading the illustrated book and said “Oh, I like books like that.” It’s a great visual treat.
And remember folks... West Coast, Best Coast!