Blogs from Big Sur, California, United States, North America - page 10

I started from San Francisco before 8am on a drive on Route 1 also known as Pacific Coastal Highway or PCH. I was doing this trip towards the end of Sept and was not expecting to see the infamous coastal fog that shrouds San Francisco bay area for most of the summer. It was bright and 85 degrees for the two days I was in San Francisco. 30 min into the drive and I began seeing the ocean to my right. However I also started seeing a envelop of fog rolling into the bay area from the ocean. And soon everything was covered in fog. So the drive all the way to San Luis Obispo was foggy. Sometimes the sun would come out but only for a short while. I did the 17 miles scenic drive ... read more

We decided to move on further down the coast today to cover some of the 300+ miles to LA. We said goodbye to the smelly room and headed off down Hwy 1 through the stretch of coastline known as Big Sur. It's a breathtaking coastline, the scenery is amazing. We saw vultures, elephant seals, and a whale far out at sea. We drove down to Cambria, a small town about 240 miles north of LA and booked into a cute motel, the Sea Otter Inn, along Moonstone Beach Drive; it's right overlooking the sea, and no dodgy carpet smell! After checking in, we had a walk over to the main street of Cambria and had a burger in the Main Street Grill. Steve's got a thing for root beer at the moment. We're heading on down ... read more

Its been quite a while since I last sat in front of a computer to update this travel blog. We've spent a lot of time in state parks with no internet access etc but now we're down the coast and I've found one and half an hour to start catching up. Jim & Laura's was great. really good to see them and their girls. When i last wrote we'd been down the river on a raft. Well after that we did a bit of wine tasting in Washington state, Susan did some outlet shopping, we did a bit of touristy stuff including the Discover centre which traces the jouner that Lewis & Clark took getting across to the wild west, and generally enjoyed ourselves there catching up. To add validity to Mitchell's claims about the ... read more

Stanford to Redondo BeachLiz Toms Highway 1 is the greatest highway ever, I do believe. It's so scenic. We left Stanford and eventually got onto the Highway and finally got to see the Pacific Ocean. The weather didn't really clear up until we were a ways into the drive, but it wasn't too much of a hinderance when we were able to stop and take pictures (though it was probably a good thing we weren't planning on spending a long time in any one spot, nor actually stopping in Big Sur for that reason). Driving south, we were able to see the Bixby Bridge, some whales (I was so excited to finally spot some and photograph their migration), and a recreation of The Birds when we stopped and decided to feed the seagulls---there were two birds ... read more

For me there are few feelings in the world that compare to going home, and no better way to arrive than after a perfectly decent road trip. Leaving San Diego, my home for the last six months, on a solo road trip to the beautiful island I call home (located somewhere outside of Seattle) was certainly no exception. Departing San Diego late one Friday afternoon in March I tried to imagine the worst traffic I possibly could... I was almost prepared for the nearly six hours it took to get to, and through, Los Angeles. Undeterred and hoping to make Big Sur by sunup with at least some small amount of sleep under my eyelids I reached a beautifully small Southern Californian beach state park around ten. Tossing and turning (no small feat for a ... read more