A few months ago, AZbuck and Mark gave me some great information of how to drive from SF to Vegas. We are now 3 weeks away from arriving in SF, I was hoping to post the route I have worked out ( from their advice ) and see if anyone can give me any other tips, or more importantly, let me know if we are heading for trouble. Would also love to hear if I have left little time etc for where we are going.

280 out of SF to Redwood City, 35 to Boulder Creek, 17 to Santa Cruz. Take the 1 from Santa Cruz to make sure we go down Montery toll, Big Sur all the way to Hurst castle. We plan to turn off the 1 just after Cambria on the 46 and follow that all the way through to the 99 and down to Bakersfield for the night.

We were assuming we can play it by ear as far as accomodation is concerned, hoping to find something. is this stupid?

From Bakersfield we are planning to head down the 58 to the 14 and head north to Death Valley. this is where I'm not sure. Would love to go to Edwards AF base, but only if there is something to see and not take too much time away from Death Valley and be able to still reach Vegas that early evening. Anyway, back on the road, up the 14 ( or to Four Corners then north if we do Edwards ) to the 178 and west to Ridgecrest and onto the Trona Pinnacles. From here my map seems to go to very local roads. I don't want to get off bitumen, as I will have a rental. Assume I need to get up to Death Valley by getting to the 190, heading north east past the Stove Pipe Wells, then south east down the national scenic byway to DV junction. from here, I think AZbuck said to take the Pahrump back road, and into Vegas. is this route down 127, up 178 into 372 to Pahrump, or is it the no number road on my map that looks more direct alond the state line? from Pahrump, I assume the 160 into vegas is the best way.

If anyone has the time to look at this I would greatly appreciate it. I must thank all those who have made getting to this point very easy, it was your advice and encouragement that convinced us to drive, which if we didn't, we would be missing out on a great part of our US holiday.