Big Sur to Monterey

Good morning everyone!  

It was nice to get out of LA and headed to final destination BIG SUR!  As we drove up Hwy 1 to San Luis Obispo we took a local road and ended up here.  It was a local beach for dogs.  You should have seen the excitement they had.  I laughed and felt so good watching their little spirits be so childlike.  I love that they have their own beach!  

We headed on into San Luis Obispo and found the most lovely town ever!  This little shop is called "The House of Bamboo."  This little shop was full of unique gifts, hemp and new-age trinkets.  We picked up somethings for the girls here.

We met the shop keeper and she was such a delightful, happy person that we had to include her in the blog.  It is hard to find such happy people in the world.  

Walking through the neighborhood, every town has to have a gum wall!  It actually looked like art but didn't smell too good, lol

I love small towns that have a historical square.  San Luis Obispo is absolutely one of the most relaxed, romantic small towns I have ever been to!  If your looking for a place to vacation, this town is a definite yes!

I picked up these lovely hand made natural stone earrings.  The town is full of handmade gift boutiques, organic eateries and new-age healing stores.

Next stop MORRO BAY!  Morro Bay is a small fishing town with this sacred rock.  The natives are the only ones allowed to climb the rock to hold an annual celebration of the hawk and the raven defeating the sea monster.  (You can read more about it on wikipedia.org)

Driving on up the coast I had to post a few pics of our rest stops.

We made it to another favorite spot called "Ragged Rock."  This is one of my favorite places on earth.  I came through here many years ago and have returned three times.  I even brought my babies here because I felt it to be such a magical place.  You can stay here in one of the rooms.  They have a restaurant and yoga.  Check out these pics of Ragged Rock. 

Our journey continues to Big Sur.  We say goodbye for now to the wide open rocky coastline.  We will see you again soon,

As we entered the park at Big Sur we were met with friendly wilflife.  Such a cute deer.  I just hope the native mountain lions aren't so friendly.

This is Pfeiffer State Park in Big Sur.  The trees here are enormous.  Though it seemed there had been a fire and some of the trees were damaged.  Dre tells me that fire opens the kernal for new trees to be born and we did see baby saplings all around the burned trees.  Sure hope he's right!

This is just an example of how big the trees are here.  You can see on the inside of the tree where the fire damaged it.  

I married a hippy boy, he's sending love and energy to the mama trees.   

That  concludes our trip to Big Sur as it is getting late and we have 37 miles to go before we get to Monterey and food.  Yall take care and we will see you tomorrow as we journey through Monterey and the upper central coast of California.  xoxo