Homestead Inn
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Relaxing at Dustin's (Christian's child hood home)
We headed to Dustin's house (my brother that still lives at my childhood home). Easy drive, hard time parking the rig. We were planning on street parking, but after an hour of circling and stuff, we ended up parking in his driveway. The backing in went ok though despite it being dark We hung out chatting for a while and headed to bed. Sunday was spent doing laundry, going ...
Road block
... to Highway 1, which leads all the way up to San Francisco. Unfortunately, this is not the spectacular part of the PCH that everyone raves about – but nothing we could do about that. The beach was pretty much like any other beach to be honest, so we didn't really stay that long. Route 46 was nice and scenic and Highway 1 was very long and barren. In all honestly I think we have been thoroughly spoilt by visiting NZ first – as the scenery there ...
An Easy Life
... pay an extortionate amount to see them in captivity at the aquarium too. Having said that, it definitely beat Brighton's Sealife Centre (as fond as I am of it). Jess was especially fond of the seahorse display and I was very excited about seeing sea otters. So much so that I almost bought an, "Harry Otter" T-shirt from the souvenir shop. We were also tempted by some cuddly toys but resisted temptation.
We also utilised our rental car to the fullest ...
Carmel - Point Lobos, Big Sur, 17-mile drive
... coming on the trail the other way. As we continued down the trail we caught another doe and two fawns hanging out on the knoll above us. We hiked this trail, which was a loop back to the parking lot and picked up another trailhead there. We hiked out to sea lion point, which was mentioned to be a good spot to see whales. We saw none, but did see a ton of seals.
After we got back to the car we headed out.
We ...
Pebble Beach and Sunny Carmel
... lobster.
Between enjoying the historical buildings and getting our prescriptions, we made it back to the car with only about 10 minutes of our hour left.
After that was a quick and easy hop up to Lighthouse Ave (going past the historical building dubbed as California's first theater. No chance for a photo though, the light changed before I could snap one) where we found another Carl's Jr and got lunch.
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