20 Aug 08 21:08, Ed Hulett wrote to Mimi Gallandt:

 MG>> I think you're missing what I'm saying, Pacific hwy is a city street
 MG>> in San Diego, it isn't a hwy and never has been, in fact when it was
 MG>> built it was named Atlantic Blvd. Yeah I don't get that either.
 MG>> Pacific Coast Highway is a highway and runs along the coast through
 MG>> at least 5 California counties. PCH and Pacific hwy are not the same
 MG>> road.

 EH> I know. PCH is Highway 1 and travels through California Oregon and
 EH> Washington along the coast... as much as it can. The last bridge to
 EH> be built to complete PCH was the bridge across the Columbia from
 EH> Oregon to Washington.

 EH> The name "Pacific Highway" is used all the way from San
Diego to the
 EH> Canadian border and is often part of old highway 99, but not always.

Meanwhile, Pacific Highway is also used as the name of the street that
lines the San Diego Bay shoreline.

 EH>>> very scenic drive. I-5, by contrast, is boring beyond toleration.

 MG>> and worse than that it runs through dairy country, far too much
 MG>> methane around there. :)

 EH> I keep seeing those California dairy commercials about happy cows
 EH> with green rolling pastures and wonder where those are. All I've seen
 EH> along I-5 are brown flat fields. :-)

At one time, there was this quaint dairy on the corner of hwy 78 and I-15,
near Escondido...it had all of what they show in those commercials, which
today are computer generated. That dairy probably still exists, but the
grazing lands they once used are worth far more to a developer than a
dairy farmer's green pasture dreams.

                R\%/itt



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