As soon as our car was fixed, we immediately got on the road again. Enough town life and car issues, time for a bit of fun! We chose Seaside, California (we have also already been to Seaside, Oregon) because it felt like a nice place. Turned out it was quite a big city, but it still had a nice sunset ;) It reminded me a bit of the one's I watched in Hawaii!
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| Typical US Lifeguard house |
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| Uhm, yes, that was quite perfect. See this line of clouds just on the horizon? |
The next day we reached one of the prime destinations of this West Coast Roadie! The famous 17-Mile-Drive! Of course, we had to pay extra to be allowed to drive a long this road (the Americans are very good at making money of everything), but as far as I remmeber it was like 15$ or so and well worth it! Just see for yourselves! Oh and if you every have the possibility go and do this drive!!
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| Pebble beach - I'm sure the famous golf course here is named after this particular spot :) |
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| This is calles bird's rock or something similar... Guess why? |
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| Millions of seals and birds on this thing! |
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| WOW WOW WOW what a view! |
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| The lone cypress - I read that it is one of the most photographed trees in the world... Hm, I wonder why... |
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| Proof that I was there in person! At a spor calles restless waters - you could see all little currents and swirls in there, very cool! P.S. probably the only not windy moment. |
This was really one of my favourite parts of the roadtrip! I am taking a break studying for my first round if exams for my master's degree and I am tiny little bit lost in memories... I will regret taking the time for uploading all these pictures, but then it also puts me in a positive mood!
So, I haven't yet actually talked about driving down the Highway 1. Not a lot I mean. SO. This road is an adventure to itself. It's winding itself along the coast, going up and down and countles curves. If you're stuck behind a huge RV - you are stuck. For miles and miles and it will annoy the shit out of you as a driver and put also put your stomach at a test. I get easily car sick (not usually driving), and this road... yes I was really close sometimes. But hey, none of us was ever really sick - pat on the shoulder, we seem to be ok drivers ;)
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| B***ch road with great views |
But, to summarize it, at least it's pretty and soooooo well worth it ;D We then skipped on the 'castle' our favourite repair shop owner recommended. We felt as Europeans everything less than Neuschwanstein Castle just would be a dissappointment, and also, it was early evening when we passed Hearst Castle. Instead, we stopped a a point where we were supposed to see endangered Elephant Seals. There was a huge parking lot and it seemed to be a popular spot to stop. Oh! And they were so cool, just chilling there and casually getting into a what seemed to be quite a nasty fight. And the wind. Oh the wind on this particular day! I tried to open the car door and it almost went back into my face because it was so strong.
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| Elephant seals |
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| You think they're the biggest chillers until you hear them fight |
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| Uhm maybe sometimes they are chillers after all |
Also, we've made it till San Luis Obispo, and old mission from 1772, quite olf for America but it didn't strike me as very special, we have seen nicer things, but we can tick it off the list anyway.
That's it for today, I need to get back to studying, so this in an half an hour taking a quick break quickie blog entry, hope you like it!
