Monterey and Carmel-By-the-Sea

After five days drycamping at San Simeon, we drove to Monterey, CA.  Stayed at Laguna Seca, a race track that hosts the American Le Mans race, among others.  With nice RV spaces around the perimeter of the racetrack.  Quiet place to stay outside the scheduled events.  And just ten miles from Monterey and the ocean.

John Steinbeck wrote about Monterey in his classic novel, Cannery Row.  We toured that area, now mostly surrounded by boutique shops.

 

 Plus a stroll on Fisherman's Wharf, tho nary a fisherman in sight.  Instead you find seafood restaurants, one after the other along the pier.

The next day, we drove further south to Carmel-by-the-Sea, on the southern end of famous Pebble Beach Golf Course.  A very upscale community.  I counted five Ferraris during the few hours we spent there.  The town sits in the center of the shoreline of Monterey Bay.  Blue green water, greenery all around, flocks of pelicans and seagulls diving for fish, yellow-white crunchy sand.  Nice.

You may know that Clint Eastwood served as mayor of the city in 1986  We ate lunch at The Hog's Breath Inn, once owned by Eastwood.  Decided not to try the Dirty Harry burger.

Bruce looking notorious

Then on northward.

Bruce