InterContinental The Clement Monterey

... 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 ...

From Santa Cruz we cruzed (lame) down PCH a bit more and were headed down to Big Sur. I hadn't even heard what Big Sur was (a mountain, park, restaurant, bar, beach?) but Christa and Ryan assured good things correctly. The ride was beautiful as before with blue blue water, cliffs, no real towns...just ocean on one side, earth on the other. Damn that winding road though. <br><br>None of us really knew what Big Sur had to offer but when we ...

... rundown, so instead we picked a little town just outside Santa Cruz called Capitola.<br><br>Although not quite the Big Sur that we would be travelling down later on in the week,the drive along the coast was fantastic and we stopped off a number of times at beautiful deserted beaches with rough, Pacific waves. <br><br>When we arrived at our b&amp;b, The Jewel Box, we were so pleased, it was really sweet and had a ...

... must have made the situation before. Ha, funny to run into them again. And I still felt panic as soon as I saw them.<br><br>"Day 1 in RV, no RV. Would have been journaled, except journal was in Lola." -Brits<br><br>Shew, another day in the life..<br><br>I digress to a bit more about Santa Cruz...just browsed a bit in the morning, heading down to the grimey and gross beach. It's covered with random brown beach dregs, has signs for no swimming, contaminated water, bacteria ridden...not ...

... car park on the front, and immediately found a great café with loads of tables on the boardwalk, overlooking the beach. It was one of those places where the slight lack of quality is made up for by quantity! Liz, Juliette and I ordered the "Breakfast Special" - eggs, bacon and hash-browns - whilst the younger members of the crew had the pancakes (these were so voluminous that I think only Olivia managed a whole pancake - and there ...

... and had great fun in a fabulous store (seriously worth a stop off for local and California arts, crazy toys, fab vintage clothes) and a restaurant with an amazing view of the coastline.  As we had just had brunch it was just a juice and ice cream stop and it was annoying that we had not timed it to stay for a meal.<br><br>Ian had managed to secure a tee off time at the infamous Pebble Beach Golf Course (well I mean you are on the doorstop).  This is a public course but ...

... wir dann einige schöne Stunden bei tollstem Wett** und wir hätten es noch läng** ausgehalten! Üb** den kurvenreichen Highway 1 sind wir momentan, auf etwa 2/3 d** Strecke, in Mont**ey angekommen, wo wir uns ein Hotel gesucht und glücklich**weise gefunden haben. <br><br>Bis morgen lieb** Travelpod! <br>Dein Stephan und dein René :-)

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