Quote Originally Posted by Jolanie
Well, I am not familiar with the region at all, so I kind of go with the flow. Our plans were to travel from Sedona straight to Carlsbad, but if there is more interesting things to do along another route, then we will follow that one. I will follow your recommendations, howz that? I am waiting....
One of these days, I will probably activate a fully-functional chat on certain days to enable these back-to-back conversations.

Sedona to Carlsbad will be a long day -- doable -- but I wouldn't suggest going as far south as Yuma and San Diego on the way. Unless you want to see what is in San Diego -- a lovely city...

What I would suggest instead would be to stay on Interstate 10 and proceed west to the entrance to Joshua Tree National Park and wander around there for a few hours and then stay overnight in Indio, La Quinta, Rancho Mirage area.

Then get up early the next morning and drive the awesome mountain road SR-74 over to county road 371 at Paradise Valley and then head southwest to SR-79 to join I-15 at Temecula. The Temecula valley has become a great wine area and is fun to drive through. You can have lunch at my favorite pizza place (also on SR-79)

And then head south on I-15 to SR-76 to Oceanside and thence on to Carlsbad.

Mark