Saturday, August 26, 2006
Thursday, August 24, 2006
17 Mile "Scenic" Drive, Monterey, CA
Experience Index: 1.5/5
Very overrated location. Sure, it is next to the ocean, but so are thousands of miles of coastline. $8.75 to get in here too, which I got the feeling were being spent, in some indirectly convoluted way, to justify keeping off real estate hunters from this area. Indeed, there are several mansions along the drive, punctuating the 18 odd "scenic" locations along the drive. Sample some of them: "Joe", where some Chinese guy used to live alone at land's end and sell trinkets to tourists in the 1800s or the so-called "Ghost Tree"...Eventually, I went from sight to sight finding nothing worth capturing on camera. Save this "Lone Cypress Tree" - just one little tree sitting by itself at the edge of the land. This is also the "Pebble Beach" logo & is copyrighted!
All in all, in my opinion, if you're not a Golf fanatic (the 17 mile drive runs through the Pebble Beach golf course), avoid Monterey & stick to the wonder that is San Francisco!
Very overrated location. Sure, it is next to the ocean, but so are thousands of miles of coastline. $8.75 to get in here too, which I got the feeling were being spent, in some indirectly convoluted way, to justify keeping off real estate hunters from this area. Indeed, there are several mansions along the drive, punctuating the 18 odd "scenic" locations along the drive. Sample some of them: "Joe", where some Chinese guy used to live alone at land's end and sell trinkets to tourists in the 1800s or the so-called "Ghost Tree"...Eventually, I went from sight to sight finding nothing worth capturing on camera. Save this "Lone Cypress Tree" - just one little tree sitting by itself at the edge of the land. This is also the "Pebble Beach" logo & is copyrighted!
All in all, in my opinion, if you're not a Golf fanatic (the 17 mile drive runs through the Pebble Beach golf course), avoid Monterey & stick to the wonder that is San Francisco!
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Saturday, August 05, 2006
Friday, August 04, 2006
Mt. Rainier, WA
Experience Index: 3.5/5
Mt. Rainier is the 4th National Park I have visited. The others are the amazing Yellowstone, Grand Canyon and Arches, probably 3 of the best of them.
Mt. Rainier is the 4th National Park I have visited. The others are the amazing Yellowstone, Grand Canyon and Arches, probably 3 of the best of them.
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Seven Days in LA
Get past the traffic & the high cost of living and LA and its surrounding areas are simply incredible. Imagine living a 10 minute drive (2 hours during rush hour...kidding) away from the beach.
I spent 7 days in LA, 8 if you count the day I landed at the rather dated LAX airport.
I spent 7 days in LA, 8 if you count the day I landed at the rather dated LAX airport.
Sunday, July 02, 2006
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