Cypress Gardens Inn Monterey

... more ideas to make the Floride trip easier; don't forget the pot to make coffee & tea and find more comfortable mattresses for under our sleeping bags. Shona slept like a dog.

Shona still thinks she is going to the vet (alittle anxious) everytime she gets into the car. But she settled down and did great at the camp site.

Can't wait to start the trip. Florida or bust!

... 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 ...

... there we'd find out. I'm not entirely sure it was a town so much as a point or small region. We found the Big Sur State Park and decided that it was the best option and turned on in. Although the woman at the front stand was a bit concerned for us, we knew Lola would do fine...she's seen it all. We decided to do a hike up to see some Redwoods and Pfieffer? Waterfall. Christa learned at the Grand Canyon and on that hike I learned...flip ...

After our nice drive up the coastline we checked into our huge motel room with all the mod cons - a luxury we were getting used to. Carl Jr for dinner a lovely American chain establishment which all things considered wasn't too bad, a box of corona and back to the room to watch a movie.

After a sound nights sleep we drove along the 17 mile drive, it was a beautifully sunny day so perfect for viewing the rugged coastline, a colony of seals and ...

... Monterey Crepe Company. They make delicious crepes!! YUM!

We are going to try to get out of here tomorrow afternoon. We will catch the tail end of the storm that is blowing through right now, but if we don't leave there is another storm coming up on its heals that we will hit dead on. So hopefully if we leave Wednesday afternoon we will miss most of the weather for the current storm and ...

Am Morgen starteten wir im Hochnebel. Zu**st fuhren wir nach Morro Bay um dort den Morro Rock zu bewund**n. Dies ist ein rießig** Fels, d** einfach so am Strand rumliegt... ;-) ist echt seltsam. Dort sahen wir auch die **sten Surf**.
Weit** ging es nach Big Sur, eine Mischung aus Redwoodbäumen und Me**. Die gesamte Route an diesem Tag ging entlang des Highway 1. Eine echt schöne Straße direkt am Me** entlang, im ...

We arrived at marina Dunes and was shocked to find grey skies and chilly winds as we thought it would be warmer. Donning our Fleeces and coats we scrambled over the dunes and spent the day stocking up on groceries for the 'van' in picturesque old Town Monterey - the former mexican capital of California until it became America inthe 1850s and it's capital moverd to ...

... so well over 6 miles. Generally we though the tour pretty **** for $28 apart from going over the Bridge. The guide just pointed out the obvious. At least he was local, but just kept going on about house prices, and about Leonardo Di Caprio's mothers house up on the hill which cost him 30 million. Big deal. We ended up ditching the bus and spending the entire afternoon in 'The Haight' and I got to go to my favourite record shop Amoeba records. Its was just as cool as ever ...

... up our luggage at the hotel we headed out of SF on Highway 1 towards Monterey. We stopped off at the Pigeon Point lighthouse near Pescadero. After lunch at Pescadero we continued down the highway. We wanted to stop at Santa Cruz to walk along the board walk (which looked awesome) but unfortunately we couldn't find a parking space for the car so we ...

Heading south I loved the town of Santa Cruz which was a real surf town & very cool. Nath & I walked for miles along the foreshore which was covered in pretty dune flowers & had lovely ...