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Legend: Red circles denote cities where we have friends who we visited and stayed overnight. Blue circles stand for other places we stopped by. Green symbols are for campgrounds.


Thursday, August 6, 2009

Sunday 2.8. (Big Sur)

We leave SF and continue further south on Highway 1. Contrary to the travel from Eureka we have a beautiful day without the fog, temperature under 20 degrees, so that it is quite pleasant at the sun. We make a few stops and admire the coastline; Highway 1 goes often completely at the edges of the cliffs and winds above the ocean. We park at one of the state parks near the road and go on a half hour walk, sightsee the coast more closely, big crabs and smal fish imprisoned by the tide in the small lakes between the rocks. Driving a little further we get into the area known as Big Sur. We stop at the waterfall directly at the beach; beautiful view. By Santa Barbara we get into the first real heavy traffic, but we success to arrive to the campground darkling, barely seeing where to set a tent. Campground is very loud and full of people but still in the nice surrounding (considering there is a megalopolis only few kilometers away).

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