Best Pacific Cost Hwy sites?

Here is a suggested itinerary for LA to SF.

Head up to the Central Coast by car on US 101 past Santa Barbara. Go to San Simeon and spend the night. The next morning, tour Hearst Castle. After lunch, continue up the coast on CA 1 to Big Sur and the Monterey Peninsula. Stay the night and the next day visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Cannery Row, then ride along 17 mile drive in Carmel. From there, head to SF.

Hearst Castle is one of the places you must see before you die.

http://www.hearstcastle.org/

Big Sur is spectacular

http://wikitravel.org/en/Big_Sur

Monterey Bay Aquarium is where they filmed Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/

John Steinbeck made Cannery Row famous

http://www.canneryrow.com/

Check out the famous "Lone Cypress" on 17-mile drive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17-Mile_Drive

Hearst Castle usually needs reservations, gotten months in advance (but you can try).

You will be driving through the redwood forest, and somewhere along there is Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox.