photos from top to bottom: (1) Lone Cypress on 17 Mile Drive, (2) Mission Church in Caramel , (3-5) in Big Sur coast
07.18.2010, 22.15 clock Fairfield Inn and Suites, Santa Maria
The day begins as scheduled at Sam's Diner and we will for the next six hours, very tired. Although no one dares to take on the French toast, the two houses was poured on the day before with a single cylinder liquid butter, but the pancakes or the cheese omelette with Mashed Potatoes have it in them.
Then we are out early and quickly in San Francisco, but the way to Monterey runs. The fog accompanied us as well as thousands of day trippers and to my horror, the two will us to Monterey. 17 Mile Drive and Big Sur were the sights to which I am most happy, and now both are threatening to drown in the mist. My mood is getting just as gray as the surrounding landscape.
We leave the 17-Mile Drive (almost twice, for the Navi has piloted us to the wrong entrance), probably see beautiful coastline, plenty of mansions and golf courses and a lot of fog. Inside, in the Pine forests is their life in a modest bungalow with a price tag to $ 1,599.000. The houses with direct sea view are then often four to eight times, with a small park and a private house for the servants. Since last probably more a zero on the purchase price or not and for a weekend home, which is obviously used by many not even on Sunday regularly.
But the rich are not all together: A lot of plebeians as we populate the streets and adjust the view on the golf course. Not today - of course - because as you can see the tee might not know where the ball goes.
Continue to Caramel - a thoroughly charming narrow gauge version of the previously seen. The houses are not pompous, but pretty, the gardens small, but you can look back on the same ocean and even has its own beach. And on the show already seems a little blue sky. Blue is known to be the color of hope.
Where Big Sur - the coastal strip, which I have been reading Henry Miller's book would see more than 30 years ago - begins, it can not be clearly defined. Perhaps where the sun slowly wins the (current) victory over the fog. The coast is certainly spectacular (although my wife thinks that Brittany was just as nice) and reconciles the day to me or vice versa.
Again and again, I imagine, as in the 40s and 50s must have been five to ten kilometers without tourists, without electricity and with a house, as Henry Miller has been here about ten years of his life. Again and again in the holidays I fantasize them to live somewhere in a beautiful spot as teleworkers. As a writer, the conditions that are ideal, but then again I must make clear that in my job to communicate directly with other people is essential and by Internet and telephone can not be replaced.
But then the board - then I'll get to everything. Probably like many others, the successive substantial parts of their Life move into retirement and then "want to start living right," only to discover that they expect there primarily a crisis of meaning and boredom.
From Big Sur, the landscape subtly sweet and gentle and at some point we must then also the mythical Highway No. 1 is left. The mission church in Sal Luis Obispo, we note with yet, but it is less attractive than those in Caramel, and above all less beautiful than later those in Santa Barbara.
To conclude, we still want to take Hearst Castle, the Monument to the Tsar manic newspaper, but there is no clock at 17.00 Guided tour more and all that is possible would be from the Visitor's Center hochzusprinten the hill outside in a short time before the final closure of the site visit and for leaving $ 96 as a thank you. We do not use.
There is already a monster that day's stage and we still need to Santa Maria. This is unfortunately no longer on the sea and the hotel is indeed the Marriott chain, but was made more or less in a commercial zone. Since it is after two weeks the time on the Pacific coast and inland, then they sit between a car parts dealer and truck parking area 30 kilometers. The hotel is quite ok and appalled at the breakfast plates with disposable cutlery, disposable and suitable food supply are now no more.
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