ROAD TRIPPING

Here are some photos of the drive to and from from San Fran.

Setting off early on Friday morning we headed through Mojave and through the mountains on a windy road to the Interstate 5. This was an incredibly straight road going direct to San Francisco, we were joined for some of the drive up by our friend Tim via Skype.

We took the Pacific coast highway back from San Fran on Memorial Day. One word to describe it would be "wow!". You would see amazing views of the coast and then you would pass round another coastal headland and have a whole new stunning view. Just the deepness of the colour blue of the Pacific and the whiteness of the crashing waves was mind blowing. Han did most of the driving of winding roads so I could do the Woodruff thing and get the map out, far more fun than sat nav!

We stopped off for lunch at Monterey; a bustling fish market town stuck out on its own peninsula. Once the capital of California! Recently the old fish canning district had been regenerated so was great  place to stop. We saw a couple seals enjoying a post lunch nap, we also stopped by to see some elephant seals just next to the highway near San Simeon. The beach was full of them!

The road trip turned into more of an adventure than what we had planned as we came off the coastal road to head inland for home. With sat nav not working we relied totally on the map. We decided on a 'small road' that became a 20 mile hair raising gravel track through the mountains, this was followed by an even more sweeping road through the hills and oil fields (as our petrol tank was becoming dangerously low). Looking earnestly for a gas station, passing through towns with gas pump in ruins or closed down, we were getting a lil worried. Thankfully with Han's superb navigating we found petrol and food before heading down the last bit of the Interstate 5, grateful for a straight and predictable road! We had been travelling for 12 hours in total that day so were extremely tired and glad to be back but with loads of memories of a great weekend.

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Outward Bound









The Return Journey 

















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