The trip in short
Three days in San Francisco to start, with a walk or a bike ride across the Golden Gate Bridge. Then Highway 1 south: the 17-Mile Drive at Monterey, and Big Sur, where the road hangs above the ocean at Bixby Bridge and McWay Falls drops onto the beach. Past Hearst Castle and the elephant seals to the missions and wineries of Santa Barbara, and three days in Los Angeles to end. The finest of California's coast trips; on two wheels it is By Harley along Highway 1.