So our journey started us off by catching the metro with the Los Angelino crazy's, passing some lovely suburbs along the way that make Dandenong look like Brighton. One run in with a crazy person involved me clearing my throat (I was abnormally flemmy after the flight) on an escalator to the subway in Hollywood. He then proceeded to call me a rude &^$^ % &^&%* #^#$^% resulting in me and shaz bolting to a train. If I was not so jetlagged there may have been a possibility to clear the confusion - however now to this guy will be forever known as that rude bloke on the train who I owned!
Initially disappointed with the consumerist filth that is downtown LA (sorry for anyone reading who loves LA, please post a comment with your counter argument) - we set out in our campervan to experience the real California - needless to say we are very impressed. We arrived at the gateway to highway 1 - a town called Morro Bay and it was amazing - the next 2 shots are from sunset on the bay (the 3 smokestacks for some factory are a bit of a bummer tho)
After tearing ourselves away from Morro bay, we hit the road and highway one is the real deal - possibly a contender for the great ocean road as the best drive you can do. Once I got the hang of driving on the wrong side of the road we were golden. The scenery on highway one is really unique - kind of desolate, with patches of intense colour against some incredibly imposing cliffs and the endless expanse of the Pacific.
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The next destination was the biggest of the Sur's - Big Sur, California. This place is amazing, highway 1 cuts through a valley surrounded by redwoods, and access to some cliffs overlooking the Pacific. We stayed in the State Park camping sites most of the way in our campervan - they are setup really well. Sharon got hit by a skunk here too, it was awesome!
And they had a sweet beach - Phiffer beach
After 2 awesome days at Bug Sur we hit the road again to head towards Montery bay - after surviving an exploding gas canister caused by the diceiest of gas stoves. Note the below image is a dramatization.
Some cool colours on the way to Monterary.
From here its onto San Fran for some more craziness.
Cheers, Dave!
Great work Coutties - keep 'em coming!
ReplyDeleteDave, we are having some issues with the power supplies at BAC. Are you free to discuss? bahaha! Looks like you are having a great time. Some awesome photos there. Good to see the crazy people are continuing to follow you around. Now you wont miss us so much. ;-)
ReplyDeletelol, re BAC, sometimes I have flashbacks back to BAC days hauling ass up and down the stairs - then I remember my new profession involves sitting on a beach. Needless to say the BAC flashbacks are becoming less frequent! Yeah the pics are coming out amazingly, so glad we invested in a new camera - been looking at new lens' but they are super expensive.
DeleteRegarding crazies, SD aint got nothing on the americans!
I love it - boardies and a puffa jacket.
ReplyDeleteYou *must* be on holidays!
In San Fran, if some dodgy bastard dude challenges - or bets - you that he can "tell you where you gotcha shoes". Just tell him "yeah I got my shoes on my feet".
Great photos to kick off, I'm looking forward to more!
Haha yeah - shaz and I gave up on looking like hipsters pretty quickly and embraced the liberation of looking ridiculous
DeleteWish I heard that shoe shine thing earlier - I got stung and it cost me a couple of bucks...dodge.