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89 south from Tahoe to west on 88 (beautiful) to south on 99 to west on 4 to south on 5 to west on 152 to south on 156 to south on 101 to San Luis Obispo.

You can detour over to Montery-Carmel (late lunch) by going west on 156 at Prunedale to south on Hwy 1 and then back to 101 via 68.

If you try to do Hwy 1 south from Monterey through Big Sur, you'll run out of steam and won't see much (if any) of the famous coastline before nightfall (depending on the time of year). You cannot change your mind once you take Hwy 1 south from Carmel.

You wanna make it quicker...stay on 5 all the way down to the 41 near Kettleman City, and cut across to Paso Robles and the 101, and then south to SLO.