Monterey Peninsula
Trip Start
Jun 18, 2008
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Marina,
California,
United States
Monday, July 7, 2008
We set up camp, and then went out for some California Mexican food. Wound up in a town called Moss Landing. They wanted 8.50 for a tamale, so it was a fancy place. We both had the pork enchiladas with mole sauce. Mole sauce is a chocolate and peanut concoction that they put on top of stuff. They brought our food, and they had sprinkled stuff on the edge of the plates to make it fancy. It wasn't fancy, and it didn't taste all that hot. It was over priced.
The next day we made it down to Pebble Beach and took the 17 Mile Drive
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. What a treat that was. Beautiful houses, golf courses I would never pay that much to play on, and drop dead gorgeous vistas. We got pictures of seals, waves crashing on rocks, and some really pretty Cypress trees. This is a fantastic drive, and we enjoyed it a lot. My favorite stops were The Restless Sea, Bird Rock, Seal Rock, and the Cypress Point stops. The views were things you will never see any where in Texas, or most anyplace else for that matter. We took a boatload of pictures of the ocean, waves, and stuff that flatlanders just don't see. What a wonderful way to spend a day. We left the area by driving through Carmel which is a nice, expensive looking area. We stopped at Carmel Mission, and really enjoyed this Mission. It was rebuilt in the early 20th Century, but the basilica is original I think. The grounds are very well manicured, and the buildings are maintained to an extreme. A very beautiful Mission. We talked with the Docent, and she told us a lot about the Mission and its people. There is a Cypress tree that is supposed to be the oldest Cypress tree in the area, but it is only 100 years old. It seems that while the masons and other workers were rebuilding the Mission the waste went in one area. They covered it over and planted the tree. The minerals from the waste - abalone shell and other nutritious stuff - acted as a fertilizer and the tree flourished
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. The Father that founded the Mission and named it was only 5'2" and some of the original buildings reflect the small stature of the Father and others of that era.On the way back I stopped for fuel. It was $5.79 a gallaon!!! Gads, 8 gallons cost me $50. The station would not take credit cards and charged a .45 fee to use an ATM. I paid cash. Since this was sooo much more than anywhere else I had purchased fuel, I was fairly certain that it was because I was in the Monterey area. If the RV park can charge $70 a night, then why can't they charge another arm for fuel. This isn't really a complaint because I fully expected the area to be pricey, and I wasn't disappointed.
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Comments
Moneterey
Great shots - thanks for sharing
PS - read an article in the USA Today - credit cards are becoming a real challenge for gas stations - their profit margin 'at the pump' is actually very small - and the credit card process piles on much more reduction in that margin - many are taking to offering incentives for paying cash - sign of the times.
Dg
Re: Moneterey
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Yes, I know about the crunch the gas stations are supposed to be in. Strange though, that diesel was .70 a gallon less not 15 miles north.
tom