Sep
17
Hello everyone!
We just spent the last 7 days on vacation, with out final destination being Los Angeles. It was an amazing trip, and we got the pictures to show you all.
Here first is a map of our trip down, the trip back was a boring cruise along I-5, but the trip down was a scenic wonder.
Now on with the trip.
Here’s us on the road on our way to Monterey, our first stop. Yea I’m still driving here, the cool thing is that I’m actually looking at where I’m driving, but since the glasses cover my eye’s, you can’t tell.
We decided to drive down to LA along the coast via highway 1 and 101. This way it was a very scenic drive with lots more to see then on I-5. The downside of course is that the drive is to 9 hours, instead of the 6 hours. So we decided to drive part way afterwork on wednesday, and it turns out Monterey is 3 hours out of San Francisco twoards LA.
Here’s a picture of Downtown Monterey. Its the Cannery Row part of downtown that contains its world famous Aquarium, that we were unable to go to because of our time constraints.
If we turn to our right, this is the picture of the ocean you get. Though this really doesn’t do it justice, you can see kelp beds out there, and if you walk up there, its got this cool shore. Very nice. Infact, here’s a picture of us infront of that beach.
This was actually the day after we arrived in Monterey, which was Thursday. Since we arrived late on wednesday, we went out to dinner. After looking through the tourism book I talked Danielle into a Southern Grill, which was mostly BBQ.
Anyway! Here’s us on our way out of town, headed down the coast to LA.
There were all these really cool coves on the way out of Monterey. We stopped at one of them and that is where the above picture was taken. Here’s a picture of the actual bay, with one of the houses for the lucky people that get to wake up every day to that view.
As we had a 1pm appointment at the Hearst Castle we had to quickly make our way out of Monterey and down Big Sur. This was an amazing drive as we suspected, and the coast looked like this pretty much the whole time.
We had 2 hours to cover about 90 miles to Hearst Castle, which shouldn’t be hard at all, except when the highway was an average of 40 miles an hour, sometimes dropping to 20, and with slow traffic, averaging out probably 35ish. I like to drive kind of like I’m in NASCAR, so we were rushing to make our appointment at Hearst castle which caused us to kind of zip by this great scenery.
Next up, arriving in LA…
I got to go to Monterrey a few years ago and loved it. Cannery Row is kind of a tourist trap now - nothing like the Steinbeck novel, but the aquarium was really cool. I hope you stopped at Gilroy - the garlic capital of the world - on the way there and picked up some garlic ice cream.
We didn’t get to go to Gilroy because we went down the coast, and back up on I-5. Gilroy is on 101 so we kind of went around it.
We’ve heard a bit about the town and it sounds quite interesting so we’ll have to get down there for their next garlic festival.