Part 2 of my trip to California was the part that I was looking forward to most, the drive up from LA to San Francisco along the Pacific Coast Highway. It really was amazing and the pictures don't do it justice. Although I appreciated my brother driving most of scenic parts so that I could take pictures and I appreciated how well my son behaved despite the very long day spent mainly sitting in a car, it is a trip I'd like to do again one day with just one person and in a convertible!
We did stop along the way to spend the night rather than to drive all the way to San Francisco. We stopped in Monterey, a wonderful little town on the water. It had a wonderful aquarium, a great downtown shopping area, and an awesome playground called Dennis the Menace Park. Again, I'll let the pictures do the talking...
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Santa Barbara
What a quaint town, loved it! |
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Hearst Castle
This is the closest I got to it, :( |
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| Monterey |
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| The Monterey Aquarium |
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| The bat ray my son touched! |
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| The tanks were incredible! |
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Dennis the Menace Park, Monterey
It was quirky and my son had a blast! |
The only thing that I would have changed about this part of the trip would be to have spent the night in Santa Barbara. I love quaint towns and it was just that with a great Mexican influence. If we had done that, then we would have had more time to take a tour of Hearst Castle, which I also would have loved to do, but we just ran out of time. But again, what an experience!
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