a windblown left side

sights and sounds

Driving down the pacific coast highway (highway 1) is both slow and dangerous. I highly recommend it. It's slow because it's winding, and they have little gravel turnoffs like every 100 feet where you can stop and take pictures, and I probabably stopped at at least 10 of them. It was dangerous because I was trying to look out the window the entire time without falling off the cliff. If you ever have a chance, definitely do it, at least for an hour. It's beautiful.

A tip if you ever go - gas up before you start. I started with pretty much a full tank of gas but not quite. There are only a few gas stations along the way, at least in the northern part that I was in, and they charged like $2.70 a gallon.

I saw a highway entrance that only went one way, east. That was cool, usually you have a choice to go east or west on a highway, (or, alternately north or south) so it was cool to only have one option. If it had gone west it would have gone right into the ocean.

I also saw a sign that said "Worlds Largest Parking Lot" at a gas station - and this gas station was in the middle of nowhere. I wish I would have gotten a picture of it. The sign, that is, not the parking lot itself, because I looked around a ton and saw nothing I would consider a parking lot. I don't know if there used to be a parking lot there, or if the sign was supposed to refer to the large amount of flat dry land around the gas station or what. If there was a parking lot, I can't imagine why it needed to be so large, since there was nothing worth parking for within 100 miles of that gas station. Lots of parking usually requires lots of interest in something. Not for these folks, they make their own rules.