Big Sur Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Leaving Santa Cruz, we headed south down the coast through Monterrey and the area known as Big Sur. Going through Big Sur was a bit of a pilgrimage for us because we are both big Jack Kerouac fans, and Big Sur was one of his haunts during the 50's. We read sections from his book "Big Sur" as we winded our way down the coastline, and kept an eye ...

Thursday was the day of our return trip to LA. We'd done the north-bound journey via Interstate 5, with the intention of taking the Pacific Coast Highway (the "PCH") for the south-bound trip. The only problem with the PCH is that for much of it the road winds its way along the coast and speed is not an option. This, of course, is the very reason...

After three weeks on the road, I'm finally taking some time to
figure out Travelpod. It's really a pretty simple site if you start out
right and update each day. I've added several locations from the period
7/18 through 7/22 in order to update the map so that it's not a
straight bee-line from Astoria, OR to Venice, CA. There are no p...

Finally, not one but 2 sunny days!! Indeed, we had wonderful weather for my first weekend here, which was really good timing for our drive on Saturday along Highway 1 to Carmel, Big Sur and Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park. What better way to spend a lovely summer day than driving down the coast, enjoying the scenery and having a picnic lunch! Ou...

The Big Sur is a magnificent coastline that goes for 90 miles. It was a beautiful sunny day as we drove along the road that weaved through a rocky cliff face, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. We kept an eye out for whales but were only luckily enough to spot 4 large offshore oil rigs... Big and impressive as they were, they just don't 'do it for' ...

Day 34 - October 20 Started the day with a hill out of the campground and right into the traffic on 1. We stopped to get grocceries and then headed along the ocean for the rest of the ride. A short day at 28 miles today, and with the tailwind helping us along we got here before 12:30. It was hard to put the tent up because it was so windy. Bria...

As Wal Mart opens at 7am, we were up and out early so as not to abuse their "hospitality"! After buying our milk from them and having our breakfast we hit the road. A little further north in Arroyo Grande, we had a very unfruitful search for a grocery store, a bank and fuel so carried on further to San Luis Obispo. Here again it took us an age t...

Our inspiration to go and check out the Big Sur stemmed from an article Gareth had read in which it was written that "this is arguably the world's most dramatic meeting of land and sea, an area of unsurpassed natural beauty" so being that we figured NZ could give it a run for it's money we thought we should see it for ourselves. Accommodation is...

Camped here close to the beach.  A beautiful place.  First time I saw a seal out in nature.  It was dead on the beach.