I just wanted to make a few notes on our trip down to Tucson so that we could have a reference in case we want to take the same route/stay in the same places again some other year.
We left on Oct. 24 (Saturday). The weather was great, the traffic fairly light, and there was very little road construction. We headed straight down I-5 to Ashland. We stopped very little and didn't leave our car at all. We were fully loaded with computers and didn't want to risk break-ins. This meant that we unloaded most of our things every evening. We stayed at a very comfortable hotel just off I-5 in Ashland, the Village Suites (formerly the Windmill Inn). I would stay there again. The next day we drove to SF. We found a lovely condo for rent from VRBO/SOMA, at The Palms. It was a spacious 2/2 condo with a view of the courtyard, had comfortable beds, and was very quiet. It was only 1/2 mile away from Cliff, which also had charm. We enjoyed staying there for 4 nights. I'd also be happy to stay there in the future. But Cliff has to move in a couple of months and it probably won't be SOMA. It works out better when we stay close to where he lives. We headed toward Disneyland without a reservation. I had read about The Alpine Inn, which was walking distance to Disneyland, and talked Larry into staying there. It was your basic hotel room, that was clean, had comfortable beds, enough room for our stuff, was quite reasonable, and had friendly staff. I would stay there again, but I'm not sure Larry would. He tends to like fancier places. After staying there 2 nights, we made it to Tucson the next day on I-10.
Our Prius handled the trip well. The only problem is that we are so used to filling our gas tank every 2-3 weeks that we didn't always watch the gas gauge. We didn't run out of gas, though. We averaged 47 mpg. I'm sure we would have done a little better with a lighter load. We spent about $150 on gas, stopping once each driving day. The trip is about 1600 miles. We traveled roughly 400 miles per day and spent 4 days driving. When we do the trip when Larry is retired, it would be fun to stop more along the way and do more sightseeing.
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Your Prius really gives good mileage. You should do more road trip. I would like to do a road trip for the whole country someday. There are many places in US that I am not familiar with. Even Disneyland, I would think I would enjoy more when there is not one that I have to be responsible for. There should be a senior group tour for Disneyland or Disney World.
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