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San Francisco to Portland, Oregon...anyone done it?

Does anyone know the distance between San Francisco and Portland, Oregon? We were thinking of driving once we get there. Would it need any overnight stops?

10ClarionSt Tue 02/09/08 19:36

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spudqueen
Tue 02/09/08
20:17

Getting directions from google earth it says it would take 10 hours, so yes, I would guess it would need an overnight stop as you are bound to want other stops during the day (to eat and for 'comfort' breaks), so the whole journey would take longer than 10 hours.

spudqueen
Tue 02/09/08
20:17

Sorry - forgot to add that the distance is 635 miles.

10ClarionSt
Tue 02/09/08
21:02

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Thank you. A few years ago I drove from Kissimmee near Orlando, to Greenville, South Carolina. That's about 600 miles. I set off at 07.30 and arrived at 17.45 the same day.
At 8 p.m. we were sat watching the local college football team, Riverside High, playing against their local rivals.

Driving in the USA is fantastic. They cater for drivers. Unlike here in the UK, where they do everything they can to get drivers off the road whilst pretending they're doing us all a favour by introducing congestion charging, which is just a cover for the govt's inability to manage a decent traffic system.

Apart from that, everything's fine! :o)

jno
Tue 02/09/08
22:34

awww, come on Clarion, America has an awful lot more room than Britain! But it is wonderful driving there, I've done it often. They're all such courteous drivers too, not at all like Starsky and Hutch (as foreigners sometimes expect).

Cathyhuns
Wed 03/09/08
15:48

Why not catch the train? The Coastal Starlight is supposed to be the most scenic railway in US.

10ClarionSt
Wed 03/09/08
18:23

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The train might seem like a good alternative but last time we going to do that it worked out quite expensive.

Cathyhuns
Thurs 25/09/08
14:54

Just back from a trip on the Coastal Starlight. This cost us $73 each from Portland to San Francisco. Seats were pretty spacious with lots of leg room and food & drink on the train wasn't outrageously expensive.

However - I would not call that part of the route scenic apart from where we went through the mountains as it was getting dark and we couldn't see the view. So I would probably not do it again.

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