The missus and I went down to Monterey for the weekend to celebrate the first anniversary of our nuptuals....stayed at the very nice Monterey Plaza Hotel...more of that later.
On Saturday morning our Kayak trip got cancelled because of big swells so we drove down 17 mile drive to Carmel by the Sea to check out the art festival.
I wanna know where these people get all their cash from???? On one short block I added up over a million dollars of parked cars....OK the Mercedes Mclaren SLR took up almost half of that, but this place looks like St Tropez on payday.
I managed to escape the place only down $5 for a candy apple and didn't buy the $4,000 painting my wife fell in love with....still in the dog house for that one.
Next day we decide to ride our bikes down there and I go to the bell hop to get them out of the hotel's storage room.....ARRRGGGGGG he opens the door and I see them leaning against a concrete wall with 2 sets of freakin golf clubs laying on top of them. When I left them there on Friday they went into a protected rack with a sign DO NOT TOUCH. My top tube has a scratch that wasn't there before.
17 mile drive and Pebble Beach is a fantasy world, amazing place...not a blade of grass out of place.
We gotall the way down to Nepenthe in Big Sur where we stopped for lunch overlooking the ocean and as if on que, a HUGE FRICKIN CALIFORNIA CONDOR came swooping up the cliff and right over our heads. The waiter said they see ony 2-3 a year.
Long ride back into a headwind.
I want to live there when I grow up...and get a job.
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"A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy."
John Sawhill
On Saturday morning our Kayak trip got cancelled because of big swells so we drove down 17 mile drive to Carmel by the Sea to check out the art festival.
I wanna know where these people get all their cash from???? On one short block I added up over a million dollars of parked cars....OK the Mercedes Mclaren SLR took up almost half of that, but this place looks like St Tropez on payday.
I managed to escape the place only down $5 for a candy apple and didn't buy the $4,000 painting my wife fell in love with....still in the dog house for that one.
Next day we decide to ride our bikes down there and I go to the bell hop to get them out of the hotel's storage room.....ARRRGGGGGG he opens the door and I see them leaning against a concrete wall with 2 sets of freakin golf clubs laying on top of them. When I left them there on Friday they went into a protected rack with a sign DO NOT TOUCH. My top tube has a scratch that wasn't there before.
17 mile drive and Pebble Beach is a fantasy world, amazing place...not a blade of grass out of place.
We gotall the way down to Nepenthe in Big Sur where we stopped for lunch overlooking the ocean and as if on que, a HUGE FRICKIN CALIFORNIA CONDOR came swooping up the cliff and right over our heads. The waiter said they see ony 2-3 a year.
Long ride back into a headwind.
I want to live there when I grow up...and get a job.
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"A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy."
John Sawhill