of cliffs and clouds
October 17th, 2006 at 12:08 pm by mikeWe drove up the coast yesterday, from LA up to San Francisco. It was a beautiful drive (mostly), and it also took a couple of hours longer than I thought it would. I think it was because we did a stretch that I thought would be coastal, but in fact only went through farmland. See, there are two highways that overlap each other that run up either along or near the coast, highways 1 and 101. (and as Sarah mentioned in her last post, people refer to them as the 1 and the 101. They do that with all the highways, excuse me, freeways, here. I was often corrected when I lived here. I’d say route 10, and someone would say it’s called the 10. Weird.) Anyway, 1 runs along the coast most of the way, but overlaps with 101 through some stretches a little farther inland. The map showed one section that split off from 101 and ran towards the water. Well, it only wound slowly through these really flat farms. Some of the farms seemed to be growing grass(?) and some were growing lettuce and maybe cabbage. And they all smelled kinda funny. Like the veggies were a little dank.
The coastal parts were very beautiful. There are some places where you drive along beaches and there are ranches on the other side of the street. It must be incredible to live on one of those ranches: “I’m just going to ride the horse down to the water.” There are also passes through the mountains, which Sarah pointed out are not like mountains back home. They are not covered with trees and green, but are instead rocky outcroppings with only hiints of dry vegetation.
Then the really spectacular length of the drive happens in the stretch of coast south of Big Sur. (we’re not sure if Big Sur is actually a town, or an area, or a mountain…) This is a winding, curving road that hugs the side off the mountains that drop off in great cliffs into the sea. It was especially breathtaking, because we hit that area as the sun was starting to set. Of course, that also made for much more difficult driving, as we had to fight the sun from our eyes and try to stay safely on the road. The sun then sank behind a giant, solid bank of clouds that had the look of a mountain range far off over the water. Sarah said it looked like an enormous, slow moving tsunami.
The the sun went down. And it got dark.
We were mostly through the mountains, but not quite. And let me say that driving twisty roads next to a cliff with no streetlights in the dark is an excersise in concentration. It’s also very tiring. But we made it through, and finally reached SF, and now we are here and excited to go exploring.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
maybe the dank vegetation was the poopy spinach crops that made everyone sick? the dirve sounds beautiful, I hope you guys took lots of pictures!!
October 17th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
yay not dead!
October 18th, 2006 at 6:40 am
Sounds awesome guys! Glad you made it ok!
October 19th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Hey! It is “the 10” and “the 101” – it’s y’all in New England that have that backwards –
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