Day 16 - Monday, April 6 - to Cambria

We left beautiful Muir Beach today and travelled down the Highway 1 coastal route to a sleepy coastal town called Cambria.
We started off with a quick visit to Muir Woods - it had been too wet to get to the woods on Sunday so we started off there. The woods had huge stands of coastal Californian redwoods - the tallest trees in the world. They were spectacular but I didn’t think they were as impressive as the giant Sequoias in Yosemite’s Mariposa Grove.
We then cut across the San Francisco peninsula to Monterey and then followed the coast down.
It is a great coastal drive with beautiful cliffs, rocks and seascapes, as well as impressive forests and mountains.
It was a gorgeous blue skies day and so everything looked even more spectacular.
The road in places was a bit scary - it was starting to break off in parts and even went down to one lane in several places to avoid the part that was in poor repair.
They are working to fix the road in many places.
We arrived in Cambria just in time to pick up the key for the house, which has a lovely view across the ocean. We ate out at a very typical American grill. Food came in massive serves - we had the small serve of ribs - 7 each. They were good but the ranch beans with them were a bit sweet. The girls didn’t like the chips very much. It was an experience I guess we had to have but I wouldn’t be rushing back there.
A lot of the food here in the US is very sweet. We have struggled to find bread without sugar - and had some so sweet (molasses, honey and sugar in it)) that we couldn’t eat it (even the girls complained).
For those who have been asking, we did not feel the earthquake from southern Mexico at all. Thank goodness - we were right on top of the San Andreas fault in Muir Beach!
Carlene