After maybe four hours of sleep, we rose at 6 and departed within a half-hour. We stopped in Santa Cruz and Monterey, catching coffee at the little bagel place we had visited the summer before on our first road trip together.
Our plan the summer before to take the 1 up the coast had been derailed when some maintenance issues set us back. This time, though, we were determined to make the drive.
And of course it was totally worth it. Click on this panorama to get an idea of the scope of the view.
We tried to stop whenever we could. There was some traffic and construction, but it still flowed pretty well.
Wildflowers.
We traded [awkward] pictures with another couple.
Daniel being coy.
We stopped for sandwiches in Cambria and asiago cheese bread in San Luis Obispo. The bread turned out to be one of the best parts of the day. I'm not even kidding. It was delicious and wonderful and we definitely ate the entire loaf for dinner.
Daniel drove and ate the bread and I took pictures of the bread. Barbara and Ciera, taking the eight-hour route, called us for a Lady Gaga dance party via phone when they were in San Diego County and we were just leaving SLO. Daniel and I started to flag once we hit LA, and by the time we neared Fallbrook, at hour fourteen, we were pretty punchy. But it had been a really good nine days—desert, mountains, forests, wine country, cities, beaches. And asiago cheese bread.
2 comments:
Asiago is the best. That's the type of bagel I get whenever I'm at starbucks; wish they sold them in stores, sadly I have yet to see them anywhere. I love asiago.
Yep. Favorite couple ever. (Do I tell you that often enough?)
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