Pebble Beach Golf Course

Monterey holds a special place in my heart, so I was really looking forward to visiting with Youssef, hoping that my memories from an idyllic sophomore summer living and studying Arabic at the Monterey Institute of International Studies would not disappoint. Pas de soucis - after Clovis, Monterey was like Mecca.

We rolled into Monterey in …

I wake up very early, still on Beijing time and feel dizzy all the time. I go to the Carmel Beach and found an empty beach with very few people. Water is cold while fog hides the buildings on the peninsula nearby.

In the morning, while Keren keeps sleeping, the rest three of us walk around the lovely little town, finding the fairy tale …

Missing the girls so much, but public phones are few and far between. Our hotel charges the standard rate plus 95%!! Tomorrow we hope to have access to the internet at the airport.

Today we walked down to the wharf where the coaches leave from and got great coach seats for our 11 hour tour. Our coach driver was Herman the German, but …

... coast we came to the Ghost Tree - a cypress that had been bleached by the sun and salt.   Our circuit ended at Pebble Beach Golf Links where we hand a wander around the club and down to the 18th hole set along the ocean.   For the ...

I got up extra early in preparation for my nerve-racking chance to play arguably the best public golf course in the world (at least top 3 by anyone's book). Anyone can play it, but is financially straining for any rational human being.. but I couldn't ...

... , beautiful people and frolicsome (pure breed) dogs. Admittedly my dream didn't have a pristine green golf course coming up to the far end of the beach but it somehow added something. I parked the car (no mean feat in this town!), walked to the ...