Casa Munras Garden Hotel Monterey

... but it was fun. We also walked down the fisherman's wharf- that was cool plus there was a bar with $2.99 margaritas all day every day. it doesn't get much better than that!! We have a friend here, Josh McLean who is in the Navy and he took us over to Caramel the other day. That was fun it was a cool little town!! Finally some good shopping for me, but since I was with two boys I really didn't ...

It was hard to pull ourselves away from Cafe Kevah, but we moved on eventually, heading to Pfeiffer Beach. It was not as difficult to find as expected (good directions from the Lonely Planet) but it was not a pleasant drive getting there, as it was a very bumpy one lane road for 2 miles. But it was well worth the bumpy ride and the $5 fee, as the beach was just outstanding ...

... to Nepenthe restaurant. They offer brunch on a fantastic patio overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Lucia Mountains. The atmosphere there was simply incredible. It felt just like being in a luxury spa..... pure relaxation.... coupled with eggs Benedict and scrambled eggs and bacon!

... maybe we would come back later that night and get one. Well that didn't happen because by the time I got back to the boat i was so tired that I could barly even focus. So we just went to sleep early! I alreay think I like this place more than any place we have stopped so far (well its up there with Redwood City.)
We have two more full days in Monterey so we will have plenty of time for sight seeing! and boat work!

... campgrounds just outside were charging $45 for full electricity hook-ups and resort facilities. $10 for modern utilities didn’t seem very much! Nevertheless, we decided that we liked the look, feel and surrounding of the park, so we decided to stay. After all, we were fully charged up from our trip to the Laundromat!

We hung out at the campgrounds for awhile, then headed back out for dinner at Big Sur Roadhouse. We’d seen the restaurant on the way in and thought ...

... it would have been too difficult to see anything with the naked eye, and we didn’t have any binoculars.

I would have been interested in diving at Whaler’s Cove. I am sure there will be quite alot to see, and there have been hundreds of leopard sharks spotted there. And perhaps we would have been able to get further out to check out the sea otters, and perhaps even whales!

... kají, že o karavany nemají zájem. Navíc nám pomalu dochází benzín. Na téhle cestě zrovna moc benzínek není, takže v prvním větším městě (Carmel-by-the-Sea) tankujeme i přes nehoráznou cenu. Michal navíc u domorodců zjišťuje, kde je nejbližší RV kemp. Jedeme 7 mil, ale okolí se diametrálně mění – míjíme pole s automatickým zavlažováním, nízký dřevěný domky, obch ...

... there are a couple of days that we're likely to get into the highs of 58.... So, I now am the happy owner of a red and navy blue flannel jacket. :D Some more brief shopping and gallery browsing, including what has become our favorite: Simic gallery. They had some of the best painters in there... we could have come home with at least a dozen pictures from that gallery. Then we headed out to Monterey. Originally, the plan was to go to ...

... we drove to the beach on the other side of the freeway where we found sand dunes. After many more sand dunes then the Westin hotel followed by a car park and the end of the road. We pulled up beside a group of joggers to discuss our options. Which amounted to - return to freeway and find somewhere else to eat. Which we did. Flat, boring and completely unappealing -poor Monterey!