Congrats on the X-Country Matt
Just done my CPL X-Country Qualifier yesterday. I'm in the US just now, so my route was:
Long Beach - San Luis Obispo - San Carlos - Oakland Intl
I never landed at the same airfield I originally took off from (because it's not required) and I never had 3 long flights because that's not required either. I landed at San Carlos in the San Francisco bay area before heading north-east over the SF bay at low level to Oakland via mid-span San Mateo bridge. It's a short distance between these 2 airports but it counts all the same!
I also have quite a few good pictures of the trip.
The weather was a tad warm at 43 degrees C at San Luis Obispo! We were in a C-152 with a headwind of about 5 knots the entire way north to SF...