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From Neon Desert to Golden Gate – The Loop That Has It All

8 days22 stops

Hooverdammen

Bixby Creek Bridge

McWay Falls

Golden Gate-bron

Few road trips serve up contrasts as extreme as this one. You leave the neon shimmer of Las Vegas behind and roll straight into the desert toward Hoover Dam, where the Colorado River has carved its way through rock beneath a colossus of concrete engineering. Then California opens up: the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Santa Monica Pier, and the sun-kissed cliffs of Malibu before you swing onto Highway 1 toward Santa Barbara and its whitewashed Spanish facades. This is where the…

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