We decided to end our trip to California with a visit to wine country. For our first visit we chose the smaller Sonoma Valley over Napa. Sonoma was a relaxing and enjoyable way to end our nearly two weeks in northern California. We walked around the plaza and explored the most northern mission in…
Month: August 2013
Santa Cruz
After spending the day before in Monterey and the day in Big Sur, we decided to try another coastal city. Santa Cruz was intriguing because of the surf and skate culture. Our initial thoughts were of a west coast Myrtle Beach when arriving at the boardwalk. Since we were there, we saw a sky ride…
Big Sur
After several days of hiking around the wilderness of northern California we drove over to Big Sur to enjoy the famous the scenery. Big Sur lived up the hype but felt a bit overcrowded when driving down route 1, granted we were visiting just after July 4th. Some of the highlights of our day at…
Monterey
After a few days in the desert and mountains of California, we headed back to the coast. The 6 hour drive from Lone Pine to Monterey gave us the opportunity to see new parts of California, such as glimpses of Salinas Valley the “salad bowl of the world” and the largest mission in California in…
Mt Whitney
After visiting the lowest elevation in the United States and the location of the hottest verified temperature on Earth we decided to drive just over 100 miles west to the highest elevation in the contiguous US. The plan was to sleep in Lone Pine around 3700 feet above sea level, wake up at 300 am,…
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