Departed yesterday at about 10:30, in retrospect I should have left a couple hours earlier as I didn't calcuate the total length of this drive before hand, and it turned out to be really long. If I had though I probably would have talked myself out of it.
Anyway, I left from Calabasas going north on the 101 and drove the 33 out of Ventura all the way past Taft then to the prize of the trip Hwy 58 which runs east west to San Luis Obispo. The first section of this road is AMAZING. Nearly completely empty and the pavement is perfect in every respect. The road climbs into the hills here, and has great undulating switchbacks with considerably more shoulder than we are used to down here in the canyons. Hills not mountains I mention this as there was no spot I can rember with rock slides or gravel on the road. The upside to this trip is you get to run 33 on the way out there which was quite a bit of fun out of Ojai(be careful there are a number of construction areas, and one lane stop you go other side goes things).
When you come down off the mountains towards a place called Ventucopa the road opens up to nice fast sweepers then eventually big open straits some with 3 or 4 mile visibilty. Now the trip is strait and boring pretty much until you get to Hwy 58 but it is empty out there and a reasonable place to keep a pretty good clip. The downside to the trip is you had to drive 33 all the way from ventura to get to 58 the best part of which is really not that long. Equal to the distance of one of the good little cayon drives out in malibu, but better road quality, no driveways, and no cyclists!
When you come down the back of the hills on 58 you'll see a road called "Seven ???? Rd." I forget what but you'll know it when you see it. I recomend turning around there and doing it again. If you continue on 58 you'll come go through a really strait section, but with some crazy hills, I mean crazy. If you want to test the flight characteristics of you're Elise you can definitely do it here. Personally I prefer to keep 4 contact patches with the ground so I was quite cautious with them as I saw more than one landing spot with deep gouges in the pavement. Well, to finish a long story I went strait to SLO and down the 101 back home round trip 360 miles! Whew! Geat fun! Worth the effort.
Anyway, I left from Calabasas going north on the 101 and drove the 33 out of Ventura all the way past Taft then to the prize of the trip Hwy 58 which runs east west to San Luis Obispo. The first section of this road is AMAZING. Nearly completely empty and the pavement is perfect in every respect. The road climbs into the hills here, and has great undulating switchbacks with considerably more shoulder than we are used to down here in the canyons. Hills not mountains I mention this as there was no spot I can rember with rock slides or gravel on the road. The upside to this trip is you get to run 33 on the way out there which was quite a bit of fun out of Ojai(be careful there are a number of construction areas, and one lane stop you go other side goes things).
When you come down off the mountains towards a place called Ventucopa the road opens up to nice fast sweepers then eventually big open straits some with 3 or 4 mile visibilty. Now the trip is strait and boring pretty much until you get to Hwy 58 but it is empty out there and a reasonable place to keep a pretty good clip. The downside to the trip is you had to drive 33 all the way from ventura to get to 58 the best part of which is really not that long. Equal to the distance of one of the good little cayon drives out in malibu, but better road quality, no driveways, and no cyclists!
When you come down the back of the hills on 58 you'll see a road called "Seven ???? Rd." I forget what but you'll know it when you see it. I recomend turning around there and doing it again. If you continue on 58 you'll come go through a really strait section, but with some crazy hills, I mean crazy. If you want to test the flight characteristics of you're Elise you can definitely do it here. Personally I prefer to keep 4 contact patches with the ground so I was quite cautious with them as I saw more than one landing spot with deep gouges in the pavement. Well, to finish a long story I went strait to SLO and down the 101 back home round trip 360 miles! Whew! Geat fun! Worth the effort.