Driving Highway 1 in California – Big Sur Lodge and Pfeiffer Falls

Our cabins at Big Sur Lodge

This is part 4 a series about a road trip along California’s famous Highway 1. Please check out my other posts on Highway 1 and don’t forget to subscribe. After visiting the beautiful lookout at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, we wanted to find somewhere in Big Sur country to stay the night. We had [...]

Driving Highway 1 in California: McWay Falls in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park

Close-up of McWay Falls at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park

The latest post in my series about driving California’s scenic Highway 1. The stretch of Highway 1 in California from San Simeon in the south to Monterey in the north has to be one of the most scenic road trips in the world. At every bend of the road we were treated to views of [...]

Driving Highway 1 in California: Santa Cruz and The Lost Boys Railroad Bridge

Santa Cruz amusement park and railroad bridge

A chance encounter in Santa Cruz transports us to the set of The Lost Boys in Santa Carla. The Lost Boys – classic 1980s teen movie Have you ever seen the 1980s classic teen vampire movie, The Lost Boys? It features a Who’s Who of ’80s actors – Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Keifer [...]

Driving Highway 1 in California: Pescadero and Duartes Tavern

Have an artichoke lunch at Duartes Tavern in Pescadero, a few hours south of San Francisco. This is the first in a series of posts about our road trip down California’s famous Highway 1. The stretch of Highway 1 immediately south of San Francisco, before you hit Santa Cruz, is pretty but not as spectacular [...]

Steinbeck country: The Carmel Valley Road

Back roads are often the best. Given the choice I will always take the byway, not the highway. And so it was on our California road trip. We planned to drive south from Monterey to San Simeon and then explore the scenic Big Sur stretch of coast line. My mother-in-law was not keen on taking [...]

Photo Friday: Monster rocks at Point Lobos

Point Lobos, California; October 2009 Point Lobos State Natural Reserve lies just south of Carmel-by-the-sea and Monterey on California’s scenic Highway 1. It’s most famous for the wildlife – sea otters and sea lions like to hang out here – and the spectacular ocean and coastal views. But it has some cool rock formations too. [...]

California Coast by Twitter

Last Friday my husband, parents-in-law and I set off south of San Francisco in a hire car. We drove back up via scenic Highway 1, visiting Hearst Castle, Big Sur, Monterey and Santa Cruz. Along the way I shared snippets from the trip on Twitter, just like I did earlier this year with Scotland. This [...]

Best of the Web – Roaming Tales: Travel links for 31 August

Collating these links collections takes up quite a lot of time but I also enjoy it as there is so much great travel content out there. In this week’s edition we have everything from the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo to expensive farm stays in upstate New York. I hope you enjoy it! Part of the [...]

Driving to the end of the earth: Alaska Part 4

This is the final day of guest blogger Roger Norum’s four-part series on driving Alaska’s Haul Road with his father. To my surprise, GPS is a real advantage on a trip that follows a single, solitary road. For one, knowing the distance to the nearest petrol station is essential – especially if it’s hundreds of [...]

Driving to the end of the earth: Alaska Part 3

This is the third part of guest blogger Roger Norum’s four-part series on driving Alaska’s Dalton Highway, or Haul Road, with his father. The Dalton is the gateway to the most remote regions of the interior and northern parts of Alaska and offers a rare glimpse of America’s Arctic – an opportunity to imagine what [...]

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