What time should we leave to san diego from seattle?

my fiance and our daughter are leave from port orchard (across the water from we seattle) to san diego. We want to make the best of our time because our daughter is 2 and we want to make it a fast drive down there. What time should we leave to avoid rush hours, in what cities, and is there any other road that arent as bad as I-5?What time should we leave to san diego from seattle?
I-5 is the shortest and fastest route to take. You know when rush hours are in Seattle. In Los Angeles it used to be that if you hit it before 3:30 pm you could make decent time. It's not that way anymore. The parking lots start developing around 2pm now and you will have heavy traffic all the way into San Diego. There's really no way to avoid it.



Try to figure hitting north Los Angeles about 3am. That will put you in San Diego at 6am. and you will miss the southland commute.
I think this is a crazy schedule but you would miss most of the traffic jams:



If you leave Kitsap county around 2 AM and drive over the Tacoma narrows bridge it would get you into Los Angeles at 8PM - when the evening rush hour is dying and into San Diego around 10PM in time to collapse for the evening.

I-5 is the only way to go quickly South from the Seattle area - there are no alternatives.



I have done many a long distance drive leaving in the middle of the night with sleeping kids in the back.What time should we leave to san diego from seattle?
Well the main cities your going to hit traffic in are L.A., Portland, OR, and Seattle.

Its about 20 hours of driving, good solid driving. So I would leave San Diego in the morning so you can drive through North Cali throughout the day and through Oregon and Washington during the night so you avoid traffic.

Please becareful on the Oregon and Washington parts of I-5. They can be very long and straight and its very easy to fall asleep at the wheel.