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=== Going South (Highway 1, towards [[Santa Cruz]] and scenic route towards [[Los Angeles]]) ===
In San Francisco, go to 19th Avenue, which is also Highway 1. Find a good traffic light while walking South. You can even start in the Golden Gate Park. Along Great Highway (e.g. at the end of the L metro line) also works extremely well and may have less local traffic.
You can also take SamTrans (it's $1.50 from Daly City, $4.00 from downtown SF) to Pacifica, and get off at Reina Del Mar and Hwy 1. Much more low key than dealing with the city, if you have the spare cash.
Continuing beyond Santa Cruz towards Los Angeles along Highway 1 will be slower than taking I-5 but this is considered one of the most scenic roads in California.
You can also reach Santa Cruz by taking the Caltrain (it is easy to get on w/o paying though inspectors do come through) all the way south to Gilroy and hitchhiking out on 1st street, which is also highway 152. Good hitching spot in the morning when people are headed from Gilroy to Santa Cruz to work. This may make sense if you're starting from somewhere south of SF in the Bay Area(e.g. San Jose or Mountain View).
=== Going South (I-5, fast route towards [[Los Angeles]] or [[Las Vegas]]) ===
Take the I-5 if you want to get there fast. You might want to take the BART train to '''Dublin/Pleasanton'''. The BART station is located next to a highway on ramponramp, but you might have better luck if you walk further East to the following onramp. (You're actually hitching onto I-580 here but it merges into I-5 further out.)
This route worked really well for an anonymous user in 2009: Take BART south to Milbrae. Change onto Caltrain, take that to San Jose for maybe $7. Take bus 68 to Gilroy from there, 1 hour 20 minutes, $1.75. Hitchhike east along the Pacheco Pass highway, which leads towards I-5; many cars here will be continuing south to Los Angeles on I-5. If heading towards Las Vegas, get off I-5 at exit 257, to get onto highway 58. Take that East, avoid getting stuck in Bakersfield. 58 goes all the way through, past Mojave and Barstow, towards Vegas.
If you're considering taking a bus: booking far in advance you can sometimes find Megabus tickets from San Francisco to Los Angeles for as little as $1.50, though it's usually at least $10.
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