Salinas

Travel Blogs from Salinas, United States

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signs of life, Salinas Pueblo Missions, United States travel blog

signs of life

A travel blog entry by exploreamerica

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... one point I drove 70 miles on a road and didn't pass a single thing...not a person, car or house. When I arrived at the Salinas site I first stopped at the visitor center.  Then I drove 9 miles to Quarai and then 35 miles to the south to visit ...

Monster trucks and us actually working., Salinas, United States travel blog

Monster trucks and us actually working.

A travel blog entry by slippy

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Well everyone yes Joel and I are actually doing some work but still at weekends heading away and doing stuff this weekend we went to the monster trucks Alfie, Joel, Heidi and Myself. The photos are of monster trucks and various jobs we have worked ...

Watsonville - Santa Cruz - Salinas, Salinas, United States travel blog

Watsonville - Santa Cruz - Salinas

A travel blog entry by dandewey1974

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After a day of rest yesterday, we were up bright and early, ready to pop up the road to Santa Cruz. Despite predictions of further dire weather today, it was blue skies and sunshine all day. Santa Cruz was a lovely town by the sea, but it was slightly ...

Cannery Row -17 mile drive-  Pebble Beach-Salinas, Salinas, United States travel blog

Cannery Row -17 mile drive- Pebble Beach-Salinas

A travel blog entry by jimandelle

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... charging and wouldn't change their prices even though they were not full, so we drove 17 miles inland to Salinas. The Salinas Valley produces 90% of the nations lettuce supply but they also have a 3.8 billion dollar industry producing ...

Santa Cruz to Monterey, Salinas, United States travel blog

Santa Cruz to Monterey

A travel blog entry by matthew-harvey

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... trip tomorrow. Monterey seems like a very nice place. So nice that we could not find a motel within budget so we drove inland to Salinas. Very heavy traffic meant that it took us about an hour and a half to drive 20 miles. Still, the motel is cheap and ...

Total eclipse of the sun, Salinas, United States travel blog

Total eclipse of the sun

A travel blog entry by tishobj

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Near salinas, ca Sitting on Amtrak's daily service from LA to Seattle ( I'm only going to SF) at around 6.10 pm, after 8 hrs since departure from LA, everybody is sitting in their seats, dreaming away or sleeping, probably cursing the moment they ...

Carmel Valley - Marina, Salinas, United States travel blog

Carmel Valley - Marina

A travel blog entry by jimandelle

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... the market gardens are and then thru Carmel Valley.  Went out to Marina beach and saw some hang gliders and then back to Salinas. We actually saw a hang glider take off from the beach which is on a big slope and it was incredible how quick he went ...

Falling in love with California, Salinas, United States travel blog

Falling in love with California

A travel blog entry by dpakannie

... ! We were seriously on the road for about 3 hours. Only the last hour I felt car sick. We stopped around 11 pm in Salinas, CA. The next day we drove on to San Francisco to return the car and meet up with Cory and Morgan. 6th- sunset ...

Sea Otters and Casey Stoner, Salinas, United States travel blog

Sea Otters and Casey Stoner

A travel blog entry by lynnandkriss

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... the door or swearing means we should slow down and cursing under her breath at the vehicle in front means we need to get past it. Salinas has a tatty air of art-deco about it; after the luxury of Las Vegas our hostel just had the air of tatty about it. ...

23eme jour ou le retour vers la campagne, Salinas, United States travel blog

23eme jour ou le retour vers la campagne

A travel blog entry by cobelife

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Le soleil est toujours là, on se dépêche donc de prendre une douche à l'auberge, de faire deux trois réglages easy jet, de ranger le camion, ce soir on repart! Et enfin nous voilà en route pour la traversée du pont, ballade d'une dizaine de ...

12 days and counting, Salinas, United States travel blog

12 days and counting

A travel blog entry by the_poetess

Well I'm leaving in less than two weeks, I can hardly believe how fast the time is passing. I made my travel arrangements a little while back when I finally received my staging kit. I depart from the Monterey airport at 10:50 am August 16. I have a two ...

travel arrangements are made, Salinas, United States travel blog

travel arrangements are made

A travel blog entry by the_poetess

Hey everyone, Well I got my staging kit so I made my travel arrangements today. For those who care here is my itinerary. I depart from the Monterey airport on August 16 2003 at 10:50am and fly to Los Angeles. I have a two hour layover and then I hop a ...

The Land of Steinbeck, Salinas, United States travel blog

The Land of Steinbeck

A travel blog entry by dane

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... cops would let us camp in a park or something. First we drove over to the Steinbeck museum. It's a beautiful building in downtown Salinas. We walked in and were informed that it was $9 to get into the museum. We explained that Steinbeck championed the ...

Out and About, Salinas, United States travel blog

Out and About

A travel blog entry by gildo

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Went out to lunch with the folks as I had a hankering for some sushi so why not kill two birds with one stone and get sushi and Chinese food? The answer, A A Buffet, it kind of rolls off of the tongue even.  Good stuff though and now I am quite ...

pickup , Salinas, United States travel blog

pickup

A travel blog entry by golicon

going well, made a little trip up to Salina, CA.  Got there the 3rd of July however couldn't get our load so spent the night at a truck stop.  Next day picked went back to warehouse, finally got an appointment to ickup load, not first thing but ...

StoryCorps in Salinas, Salinas, United States travel blog

StoryCorps in Salinas

A travel blog entry by fossilfuelfree

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Today, I had an amazing experience with StoryCorps in Salinas. This podcast is an with StoryCorps site supervisor, Whitney Henry-Lester. Among those recording stories today were Tribal Chairwoman of Esselen Nation, Louise J. Miranda Ramirez and ...

Pinnacles National Monument, Salinas, United States travel blog

Pinnacles National Monument

A travel blog entry by wheresgordon

... hike.  I was told that it has 700 feet of elevation change but I think it was a little less.  The hike goes up into a gulch to an overlook that gives a nice view looking back down the gulch. After my hikes I headed for Salinas for the night. ...

Big Basin State Park, Salinas, United States travel blog

Big Basin State Park

A travel blog entry by radsolv

Monterrey and ...

Salinas and a roller coaster, Salinas, United States travel blog

Salinas and a roller coaster

A travel blog entry by lauravanwaas

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... Carmel, away from the weekenders who had come out here from the cities to surf or shop. Just 15 miles up the road, Salinas had its own selection of motels looking just as inviting as their extortionately priced counterparts at the seaside. For 55 dollars ...

Day 78: Santa Cruz... Clause, Salinas, United States travel blog

Day 78: Santa Cruz... Clause

A travel blog entry by gazzatron

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  The scribbled ramblings of a mad man. ...

Day 10 - Looking for Rodeo Hats in Salinas, Salinas, United States travel blog

Day 10 - Looking for Rodeo Hats in Salinas

A travel blog entry by gamiclea

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... as directions and tips. Well...our next stop was completely driven by this app.  We had no reason at all to stop in Salinas other than to seek out a collection of huge rodeo hats on poles somewhere in the city.  With our mostly trustworthy GPS ...

Jan 13, 2010, Salinas, United States travel blog

Jan 13, 2010

A travel blog entry by stephenhayes

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An African Safari Adventure in Salinas, Salinas, United States travel blog

An African Safari Adventure in Salinas

A travel blog entry by winterspring

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... fires, and our red van is covered in ash, or California snow as one person calls it. As we leave Highway 1 to go to Salinas, we pass Monterey and Carmel-places I hope we can explore tomorrow. The mountains and the sea are replaced by flat fertile farm and ...

Good Nite.., Salinas, United States travel blog

Good Nite..

A travel blog entry by showbizkelly

So I just got to my hotel, its 9 pm, and I'm probably just going to get ready to sleep soon because I'm exhausted from my awesome day. I mainly just wanted to put this city on the map.  I have an early morning so We'll leave this at that. ...

Lekker slapen, Salinas, United States travel blog

Lekker slapen

A travel blog entry by heinlisenka

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... ;… Voor de eigenwijzen onder jullie:. Later hoorden we van een politie agent dat je altijd bij Walmart kunt slapen, BEHALVE in Salinas. Die stad is zo crimineel, veel overlast van gangs, echt gevaarlijk. Oh oke…, nou, uh… bedankt voor de ...

Beautiful Big Sur, Salinas, United States travel blog

Beautiful Big Sur

A travel blog entry by dianne.kennett

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... of places were booked out and what wasn't was really expensive so we drove 20 miles from Carmel and we are staying at a town called Salinas. We got a nice hotel including breakfast for $50! We've got 2 nights here and we are going to Monterey tomorrow and ...

Yosemite & Monterey, Salinas, United States travel blog

Yosemite & Monterey

A travel blog entry by kathrynhubbard

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Great day in yosemite park beautiful scenery travelled then down to Cupertino to the apple store to buy lots of t shirts. Now in the comfort inn near ...

Last night together, Salinas, United States travel blog

Last night together

A travel blog entry by radsolv

Last angry battle with bus driver over where to camp. The group wants to camp where they can party loud and late. He wants to camp where each of us would have to pay a dollar but he would not have to pay the fee out of the kitty in the other location. I ...

Dumbfounded, Salinas, United States travel blog

Dumbfounded

A travel blog entry by sfermin12

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... , but they eventually migrated and found there way back.  And now the entire Cortez clan as I remembered now live in the Salinas/Monterey/Marina areas. The house is simple but beautiful, a perfect 3 bedroom house with a loft area that was created ...

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