Blogs from Monterey, California, United States, North America - page 3

Geo: 36.6002, -121.895Taxes were done early, and paid before heading out on this vacation!!!No rain so easy break down and load up heading back to Berkeley. Got to Berkeley and got settled in the cottage. Paul arrived and got us taken care of us on keys for the stay. Got a few things at Berkeley Bowl and Walgreen's came through with the doxycycline needed for the trip.Cleaned up and took the worker shuttle that come through the Heinz office buildings right by Paul's and stops at the Oakland/Ashby Bart station where we got out and then walked on to the Garage Gallery for the show. The exhibit was quite interesting. The artist sits down every day with a 4x6 paper with felt markers and draws what she is feeling. Bought one of the paintings for our ... read more

Geo: 36.5976, -121.897Slept late for us.........8 am! Fixed coffee and then headed down to town to shop for groceries and do some thrift store shopping. There is always something we need to buy, Robert got a windbreaker and Laura a sweater. Really do not have room to put much more in our bags and we really have everything we need.Drove down the street along the waterfront and saw there were wooden barricades up and people standing around looking down at the water. Found a parking place and joined the crowd at the wooden barricade. It is calving season for the harbor seals and the barricade is to protect the babies and mother's from humans and dogs I am sure!Was interesting to watch the young seals and their mother swimming in the ocean and then head to ... read more

The first day of our Pacific Highway road trip began with collecting our Ford Escape from the rental company, trying not to get conned by all their hidden extras! We made a quick stop at the Golden Gate vista point to snap some photo's of the bridge fading into the fog before joining Highway 1and heading to Half Moon Bay for breakfast. With no entries in Lonely Planet, I relied on Trip Advisor for a highly recommended little spot at the local airport. With only a small sign outside advertising coffee, 3 Zero is a hidden gem. It is situated in the old airport terminal building and serves up traditional American breakfasts. The airport is still functional and you can watch small aircraft take off and land as you eat and if there are none scheduled, ... read more

Kyla's first trip as a baby was an adventurous backpacking/scuba diving trip to Indonesia for three weeks when she was 10 months old. Now that we have two little rugrats, traveling seems to be 100% more daunting so we decided that little Jakey's first trip would be just a short skip and hop up the California coast to Monterey and Santa Cruz. As the title of this blog implies, there were good times, bad times, and inevitably when traveling with an infant and a toddler, some downright exhausting times. The good times were during the day, but I'll come to that later. It's nice to end on a positive note. I'll start with the bad times. These were at night, and as any parent reading this will guess, these coincide with the downright exhausting times too! ... read more

Geo: 36.5979, -121.874Super weather here in Monterey, not like the foggy conditions we used to get! Forecast is to stay this way until we leave on Sat for Palm Springs with Bob and Connie.On Wed Dwayne, Bob and I played golf at the Bayonet course in Fort Ord. This used to be an Army base but is now all civilian - a product of the peace dividend after 1989. The course has been renovated and now is as good as any I have played. They've cleared out the pine needles in the rough and thinned out and pruned the trees. There's plenty of elevation changes and no two fairways are parallel to each other. Many of the holes have views of Monterey Bay - it was beautiful! I found the greens fast and tough to read ... read more