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Day 10 - Hearst Castle, Elephant Seals & Monterey
We were up early again, and took advantage of the included continental breakfast included. It included toast!!! Yay, it's been ages since we had toast. It’s so hard to find nice food for breakfast. They seem to love their fried foods, bacon burnt to a crisp, huge pancakes and hash browns the size of Texas. So, it was lovely to have some toast …
Holiday Home - FOUND!
... a viewpoint at what we thought was it, we took several photos & we're slightly disappointed at how much smaller it seemed it real life... Only to discover later along that we had in fact got the wrong bridge! The correct one was extremely impressive!
So we need to win the lottery to buy a house in Carmel (where Clint Eastwood was mayor in the 80s...i'm sure dad will be pleased i visited here too)... Weve never been to anywhere like it ...
Highway 1: SF to LA and everywhere inbetween!
I rocked up in SF at 2am.. and whilst checking in to the hostel my tour group rocked up very drunk and confused as to how I managed to be back in SF only a few hours after them. Looks like I'd missed an epic dinner (-but managed to go to that Chinese place before leaving, where my fortune cookie informed me new shoes would be beneficial - so i HAD to oblige!)
The second time in SF was spent catching up on sleep and washing - and ...
Pacific Coast Highway
Most people I talked to who had been on the PCH drive talked about Big Sur, but I wasn't quite sure what it was exactly. Actually, I'm still not. According to travel guides and Wikipedia, Big Sur is 90 miles of coastline. I started seeing signs for Big Sur restaurants and hotels somewhere between San Simeon & Carmel. I read that the ...
Monterey
... the collapse of the Monterey Canning industry, when asked what happened to the sardines, Dr. Ed Ricketts, a marine biologist replied "They're in cans!"
A fascinating figure who contributed to the revival of the bay was Julia Platt, a doctor of marine zoology and one of the first female neuroscientists. She was elected major of Pacific Grove (gorgeous town next to Monterey) on the 1st of April, 1931 at the age of 74. She made significant changes to ...