Best Western Carmels Town Hous

We packed up and went for a practice trip down to Pfeiffer State Park in Big Sur on Tuesday. The camp site was great; on the river with almost the whole park to ourselves. What a beautiful place to camp.
The tent went up without incident.
The food was great, thanks to Steve.....shrimp,asparagus and potatoes for dinner and breakfast burrito the next morning.

We have a ...

... caught up on sleep after San Fran. Up at 9am and headed towards Fisherman's Wharf and looked in lots of gift shops. Rich got tempted by clam chowder so we had lunch on the pier, sitting next to lots of huge pelicans outside the window! Very scary. Then drove down Cannery Row, named after a John Steinbeck novel! Went in a shop that sold things that ...

... and I could crawl in a decent amount. "Shelves" made of roots were inside, that's where I'd keep my food. The roots almost made a chair as well...and thats a living room if I'd ever seen one.

Christa and I made some balancing rocks before our trek back down the mountain began. I had lots of trouble getting back down, switching between sliding out of my wet flips to going barefoot. Neither was great since sliding out was grip ...

... on the high street of fresh homemade half sandwiches and soup for a very reasonable price of $5 each. I saw a hummingbird in some foliage but it was gone before I could take a picture, doh! We drove down the road to the missionary church which was on the outskirts of the town which was very pretty but we didn't want to pay to go in, so we just ended up taking pictures of the outside and nice garden (which is only what we wanted to see anyway!). We ...

... have opposed street lighting in an effort to confuse tourists, so finding our way to the hotel took away much of our patience and good humour, but it turned out to be a comfortable night in yet another Best Western. There isn't much to say of Carmel, other than it is a lovely place to wander and window shop, and the beach with the view across to ...

... rich history in arts, Carmel-by-the-Sea or simply Carmel. The town is the hometown of a lot of artists, poets, writers and actors. Early city offices were even dominated by these artists. Actors such as Herbert Heron and Clint ...

... with our bits of drama, I would not have changed anything... it was another perfect day! We came back to the cottage at 6:00 and rested for a bit, had some wine, and then went down to our favorite beach for sunset. We stayed at the beach for an hour or so and then had dinner and picked up a few things at the store on the way home. We are back at the cottage for the night and getting ready to watch a movie. Tomorrow I am hoping we go back to Point Lobos as there is so much there to see.

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We visited a Mission ( influence from the Mexicans) – lovely old church & Mexican architecture.

... driving south and never looked back, or got into reverse again either until the next morning! Found the house without too much fuss... or consulting the directions too many times. It was so nice to see the Sharmas again, and since I had not seen Thaarini since she was a baby, she's now a very big girl for 18 months! I think it's the American diet that agrees with Thaarini vs Naman who had spent most of his time in Hong Kong and India recently ;) (See photo) G'nite

... you hear from them! They are so playful.....and FAT! We actually went out to the marina once at night and got to see some fairly close up. They thrive all along the coastline and we saw them all along our drive to San Duego. They have live web cams where you ...