After spending a few days in San Francisco, I took the road along the coast, the Highway 1, and drove all the way down to Los Angeles. I stopped many many times on the way, mainly because the scenery is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. I stayed the night in a yurt at the Treebones Resort, which is about an hour’s drive south of Big Sur village. The location of Treebones couldn’t be better, nestled between the hills and the ocean. The place is so remote that there is no mobile reception, how peaceful. And having one’s breakfast perched on a stool facing the ocean is a real delight. The food was good too! However, unfortunately that night they were out of electricity and so we had to make do with candles. Romantic I suppose.

The next day I hit the road again and saw the Elephant Seals rookery at Piedras Blancas and then ate clam chowder for the first time in my life. It was D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S! Oh and I also had fish tacos, which were yummy too.  The place is called Splash Cafe and is in Pismo Beach.

Then quickly after that came Santa Barbara and the HUGE highways getting into LA…