Worst Road trip Ever
On Saturday, some friends and I made the annual road trip home from San Diego to the San Francisco Bay Area.
We took the Pacific coast hwy (Highway 1), as we do every year.
Much fun was had along the way, stopping in LA, Santa Barbara, Cayucos, San Simeon.
Around 5:45 pm as driving through the Los Padres National Forest outside of Big Sur, it happened.
I was going around a right-hand corner, when within a split second I see a bunch of rocks tumble out in my peripheral.
No time to do anything, the rocks hit the side and the undercarriage of my car.
Many sparks were seen in the rear-view, and lakes of oil were leaked.
Broken sub-frame, oil pan, skid plate, tranny mount, steering rack, engine mounts, and iS lip (lol).
No cell coverage, nothing. Was able to call AAA from a tiny lodge that I ran some miles to before it closed, but they never came.
Between 6 - 11 pm me and my two friends were stranded in the middle of the woods.
Hiked up to a hermitage perched above the highway, where I was turned away, but was able to see a tow truck randomly repairing another person's flat tire miles to the south.
Ran the couple miles, and was able to get towed 75 miles north to Monterey.
There, AAA finally towed us back to the Bay Area where our adventure ended at 4 am this morning.
We had left San Diego at 9 AM the morning before, so the whole adventure lasted roughly 19 hours.
Here are some photos from the trip.
Also:
If anyone has for sale a steering rack for sale locally in Norcal, please let me know!
We took the Pacific coast hwy (Highway 1), as we do every year.
Much fun was had along the way, stopping in LA, Santa Barbara, Cayucos, San Simeon.
Around 5:45 pm as driving through the Los Padres National Forest outside of Big Sur, it happened.
I was going around a right-hand corner, when within a split second I see a bunch of rocks tumble out in my peripheral.
No time to do anything, the rocks hit the side and the undercarriage of my car.
Many sparks were seen in the rear-view, and lakes of oil were leaked.
Broken sub-frame, oil pan, skid plate, tranny mount, steering rack, engine mounts, and iS lip (lol).
No cell coverage, nothing. Was able to call AAA from a tiny lodge that I ran some miles to before it closed, but they never came.
Between 6 - 11 pm me and my two friends were stranded in the middle of the woods.
Hiked up to a hermitage perched above the highway, where I was turned away, but was able to see a tow truck randomly repairing another person's flat tire miles to the south.
Ran the couple miles, and was able to get towed 75 miles north to Monterey.
There, AAA finally towed us back to the Bay Area where our adventure ended at 4 am this morning.
We had left San Diego at 9 AM the morning before, so the whole adventure lasted roughly 19 hours.
Here are some photos from the trip.
Also:
If anyone has for sale a steering rack for sale locally in Norcal, please let me know!
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