ok god, you can stop testing john now

Shoreline Drive, CA-1 sounds like a nice drive along the Pacific Coast doesn't it?  It is if you have a Formula One car.  Not so much with a 40 foot long RV towing a full size SUV with 2 bikes off the back.  We exit off the 101 Pacific Coast Highway to drive 45 miles along the shore to our next destination.  As soon as we exit, there is a traffic jam, construction ahead with a flagman. 

John pokes his head out of the RV cabin window and asks the flagman "Any more construction on this road or is this the only area?"  The flagman says "I can't answer that,  because there is construction everywhere."  

He then asks the flagman "Am I going to be able to get around this route with this RV? Is it RV friendly?" Flagman answers "I can't answer that.  It's up to you to get through."    *Sigh*  Of course our super $$$$ RV Garmin says GO AHEAD! NO PROBLEMS!  

Our line of traffic is waved on to go now.  We turn the corner and I actually was petrified with fear and could not reach my phone to capture what happened on video.  Over 1/2 of the road was being paved for miles.  There was a cluster of workmen, trucks, and one gigantic pavement grinder truck taking up over half of the width of the road.  

We had to drive on the opposite side of the road through this area.  On the passenger side were all the workers and trucks and that gigantic pavement grinder. These things encroached about a foot over into the lane we were driving on.  On John's side, the road fell away smack at the edge of the lane  and for several miles, the road was about 110 inches wide, with  cones every 10 feet on the passenger side at about the  108 inch mark.  The RV is 102 inches wide.   No shoulder and a man made sharp drop of about a foot along the drivers side. 

John can see that damn pavement grinder ahead.  He takes in a deep breath, steels himself to be laser focused and approaches the gauntlet.  In order to avoid the 10 foot tall monster pavement grinder beast that had it's drivers side hanging over in the space between the orange cones, he had to work some kind of RV miracle.  I could not move.  Marla was panting and freaking out.  

Inch by inch, but still holding 25 mph, he approaches and misses hitting the grinder by millimeters with the passenger side mirror.  He had to go so close to the edge with the other side that the Honda tow car tilted and the drivers side wheels went down into the gulley.  As he managed to get through, the workers were stock still, staring at him and frozen with hope as well as terror about what might happen. 

And yes folks, HE MADE IT! Not a scratch!  Standing O from the workers. 

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Less than an inch between tires of both vehicles and even less between the mirror and the pavement grinder. Drop off on the drivers side was a bonus

Workers, frozen in hope and terror

View from the back, Honda tires are off roading.