Sightseeing

Monday, Dawn and I took the day to do some sightseeing.  We drove to Monterey and took the famous 17-mile drive around the Monterey Peninsula.  It travels the coastline and includes many exotic homes and golf courses, including Pebble Beach.  We are neither one golfers, so we didn't play, but the courses along the coastline were beautiful.  We ate lunch at the cafe at Pebble Beach.

We then headed South along the Pacific Coast Highway.  The scenes were beyond description.  The road travels along the coast, often with mountains rising on the left and the ocean on the right - stunning.  When we made it to Big Sur, we found out the road was closed 3 miles ahead due to one of the 800 forest fires currently burning in California.  Actually there were two separate fires further down the highway.  The fires were started by lightning.

We had made reservations in Cayucas, a small town near San Luis Obispo, at a bed and breakfast and had planned to stay the night and drive back Tuesday.  Since there is no road to detour from the PCH, we had to cancel our stay and backtrack back to Monterey.  While it was disappointing not to be able to drive the rest of the highway, it was still and thrilling trip.