Scenic Highway 1 with a castle, seals and a stunning coast line at Big Sur (25.-26.2.09)
March 20th 2009 The highway 1 runs directly along the Pacific coastline while the main traffic takes the faster inland Highway 101 or the Interstate 5 in the central valley. So after Santa Barbara the highway is hardly used.
We prepared our first camping breakfast at one of the benches with nice views on the beach and left late morning to drive to the Big Sur State Park 100 miles South of San Francisco. A campi
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