Half done?

After a great visit with friends Steve and Jeannie in Santa Monica we’ve been busy with events surrounding Cassie’s son, Parker’s university graduation from California State University at Monterey Bay.

We left Santa Monica and headed toward Monterey with an overnight stop in San Luis Obisbo where we succeeded in finding our first dark beer since the trip started. Just as in food and coffee, regions of the US have different taste preferences for beer and wine. We’re glad to be out of Budweiser territory and into California wines.

After spending several days in and around Monterey we back-tracked south to Morro Bay

to travel one of the most prized roads in the US…the Big Sur on the Pacific Coast Highway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_1)

over the next two weeks we will be traveling favored sections of the PCH as we head to the Napa valley wine country. We will forgo hotels and camp along the way, weather permitting. We are still dealing with abnormally cold and wet weather and are concerned about our route back as snow continues to fall in areas we planned to pass through. Yesterday was one of he few days without some rain on us in the last three weeks, and it’s been chilly. Today we’re staying over in Morro Bay due to very high winds along our PCH route…..not a good thing when riding along cliffs with steep drops into the Pacific Ocean.