Wow! Did You See That?

Thursday we drove up CA 1 also known as The Pacific Coast Highway or PCH. This is the road where the word "viewgasm" was coined. This is the road our car was built for. (It's not the cars fault that we got passed again by a mini-van!) 


We've driven part of this road before, the easy part, south from Monterey to Big Sur and back up. This time we drove the coast all the way from Morro Bay to San Francisco. In places the road is steep and always curvy as it twists and dips over the ocean. Sheer rock on one side, breathtaking water views on the other. We really can't tell you how thrilling a ride this is. Anyone who has driven the PCH will tell you the same. I will say this...It's the most fun I've had in an automobile since high school! 

We passed up the tour of Hearst Castle, settling for a long range photo instead so we'd have more time for lunch at Nepenthe in Big Sur. The food is very good, but no bargain. We figure at least half of what they charge is for the view. On our last visit ('97) we ate above the fog, catching the ocean in patches. This time the fog poured over the mountains above us, but burned off before hitting the road level. 
You can't easily stop or turn around on this road, so we regrettably missed photographing the skate boarders we encountered. They took us completely by surprise. We're glad we also missed running them over. I was surprised, not shocked to see bicyclers, it is California after all, but skate boards? By the time we processed that people were actually skating down the mountain, we were past them. If these guys live long enough to reproduce, they may prove Darwin wrong. 


Now we're with Matt & Saana in San Francisco for a long weekend. The car is covered and resting in a garage. If we need to go out we plan to walk. Monday morning, when they go back to work, we have a day in wine country then head east toward home.
We drove 268.4 miles today and saw 10 Corvettes.