The Pacific Coast Highway dominated the honeymoon as we travelled down California’s central coast on Highway 1 from San Francisco to Los Angeles. And all point in between.
My highlights of the trip included a visit to Alcatraz and riding the cable cars in San Francisco; chilling out in laid-back Monterey; driving down the Big Sur; Hearst Castle; sunsets over Santa Monica beach; seeing the lunacy that passes for the roads in Los Angeles; staying at the Hollywood Roosevelt; and taking in a couple of baseball games.
California Dreaming
Everywhere in California has featured in a song at sometime or another. In San Francisco its Otis Redding’s Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay and the Grateful Dead. In Los Angeles it’s the Beach Boys, the Eagles and the whole Laurel Canyon scene: Crosby, Stills and Nash, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and even Frank Zappa (who apparently is the only one on this list who didn’t ingest industrial quantities of drugs).
Do You Know The Way To San Jose? Well, yes, its down Interstate 580 from San Francisco.
Coincidentally a CD which could easily have been the soundtrack of the honeymoon has just been released, called California Dreaming.
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