Pacific Coast Highway: Onward to LA

From Monterey, we continued on the PCH down toward Santa Barbara. Since Santa Barbara is outrageously expensive, however, we skipped it and cruised right on down to Ventura--which is a great little town further south with cheaper hotels and a restaurant named Spencer Makenzie's that has the GREATEST fish tacos/burritoes on the planet.

Anyway what follows is a visual account of our travel down Route 1. I put up way too many pictures than you probably want to look at, but I wish you could understand how beautiful this highway is!

We (over)paid $10 to travel down the famed "17-Mile" Drive, which is just before you pick up the PCH to head south.
It is probably more fun if you like golf and big houses.
(If you look carefully you can see Tiger Woods shanking his tee shot on 16.)

Climbin on the beach rocks

The "Lone Cypress"
(It's in all the photos of pebble beach you see online and stuff--pretty neat.)

 After exiting the 17-Mile drive, we got on the PCH in Carmel and south!

Check out these pictures!

We drove through Big Sur, but didn't have time to really enjoy it. It is DEFINITELY on the docket for our next 6 week vacation....which we are already planning for Summer 2071...in a hover craft RV!

Lunch Spot
Great views, OK sandwiches.

Big modern art gallery on the side of the road

Mom, I would've bought you one, but they were over 100 bucks each and it didn't seem like a good investment since the squirrels in your yard would just tear it down anyway. Thought that counts?

We spent the night in Ventura at the Best Western Plus, which was swanky and, most importantly, had an EXTENSIVE continental breakfast including a waffle station. Doesn't get much better than that!