disny_luvr
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 7, 2008
Hi!
My family is planning our first trip to CA for next summer. This is a graduation gift for our twin sons. This trip first started as a trip to see some new ballparks to us (Petco Park, Dodger Stadium, and Oracle Park) and to visit Disneyland. Since then it has blossomed into also visiting Yosemite, Sequoia, and King's Canyon. This is mainly because last summer we visited four national parks - Badlands, Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Rocky Mountain - and we got bit by the national park bug bad! We've also been to Acadia and Smoky Mountain national parks so we love national parks and hope to one day be able to visit them all. That said, I am feeling very overwhelmed in what we should actually do when we are in CA. I'm a teacher so I have my whole summer off, but my husband is only able to take 10 days off of work, so we are looking at a two week trip. I'm on several CA FB pages and the recommendations that I am receiving are awesome, but I am so overwhelmed. People keep on mentioning that we should travel along the coast and visit Big Sur and after looking at pictures, it sure is beautiful, but I just don't know if we can fit all this in in two weeks. We want to be able to enjoy the places we visit and not be rushing from one place to another. I need some help piecing together our two week trip.
Here is what I know we want to do:
Visit San Diego and Petco Park
Visit LA and Dodger Stadium
Go to Disneyland (we plan on three days in the parks and staying in Anaheim for four nights)
We would like to visit San Francisco and Oracle Park (this is probably the #1 baseball park my boys want to visit), but I'm really starting to think maybe we should not visit San Francisco and just focus our two weeks in the LA/SD/Anaheim areas. This would also mean no national parks and/or Big Sur. We just do not know what to do. The other factor is cost. We have been saving for awhile, so we have money to spend, but wow, some of the prices of hotels in CA (especially SF - and not to mention parking) are expensive! So this is a factor, too.
So for those of you that are CA pros, what are some of your thoughts and ideas? I'm looking for anything to help us make up our minds. Also, if you have places we should consider staying (that won't break the bank), please share that info, too. As far as LA and SD, we know we want to go there, but what should we do?
Any help is much appreciated! Thank you!
My family is planning our first trip to CA for next summer. This is a graduation gift for our twin sons. This trip first started as a trip to see some new ballparks to us (Petco Park, Dodger Stadium, and Oracle Park) and to visit Disneyland. Since then it has blossomed into also visiting Yosemite, Sequoia, and King's Canyon. This is mainly because last summer we visited four national parks - Badlands, Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Rocky Mountain - and we got bit by the national park bug bad! We've also been to Acadia and Smoky Mountain national parks so we love national parks and hope to one day be able to visit them all. That said, I am feeling very overwhelmed in what we should actually do when we are in CA. I'm a teacher so I have my whole summer off, but my husband is only able to take 10 days off of work, so we are looking at a two week trip. I'm on several CA FB pages and the recommendations that I am receiving are awesome, but I am so overwhelmed. People keep on mentioning that we should travel along the coast and visit Big Sur and after looking at pictures, it sure is beautiful, but I just don't know if we can fit all this in in two weeks. We want to be able to enjoy the places we visit and not be rushing from one place to another. I need some help piecing together our two week trip.
Here is what I know we want to do:
Visit San Diego and Petco Park
Visit LA and Dodger Stadium
Go to Disneyland (we plan on three days in the parks and staying in Anaheim for four nights)
We would like to visit San Francisco and Oracle Park (this is probably the #1 baseball park my boys want to visit), but I'm really starting to think maybe we should not visit San Francisco and just focus our two weeks in the LA/SD/Anaheim areas. This would also mean no national parks and/or Big Sur. We just do not know what to do. The other factor is cost. We have been saving for awhile, so we have money to spend, but wow, some of the prices of hotels in CA (especially SF - and not to mention parking) are expensive! So this is a factor, too.
So for those of you that are CA pros, what are some of your thoughts and ideas? I'm looking for anything to help us make up our minds. Also, if you have places we should consider staying (that won't break the bank), please share that info, too. As far as LA and SD, we know we want to go there, but what should we do?
Any help is much appreciated! Thank you!