California Vacation Part 8 - San Francisco

 

On Monday, Tanya took us on a tour of San Francisco.  We are very grateful for her driving and leading us around, because by ourselves we probably wouldn't have seen half of the sights that we did!

Some of the sights included:  the Golden Gate Bridge, Presidio, Art Institute, Lombard Street, Coit Tower, Fisherman's Wharf, Cable Car, then ending in Berkley to eat dinner at a Pho Restaurant.

California Part 7 - Seaside to Monterey to Davis

 

On Sunday, we drove to Monterey to go on a whale watching tour.  We were warned that we might not be able to see many whales, but that day we lost count of how many whales we saw!  Well worth the money!

We had a little time to walk around Monterey and have lunch, so we enjoyed the views.....

Next stop - to stay with Kurt and Tanya in Davis!

California Vacation Part 6 - Cambria to Seaside

 We woke up Saturday morning and went to Hearst Castle to tour.  We were very impressed with the castle, the history, and learned a lot!  We would love to go back and tour more of the castle, as we only spent about 2 hours there.

We drove down the road from Hearst Castle to see the Sea Lions and Elephant Lions....

Then we drove back to Moonstone beach to have lunch by the ocean and watch the dolphins

We drove to Seaside after lunch....the views were phenomenal!  We quickly unloaded at our AirBnB at Seaside and went to Point Lobos National Park https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=571 until dusk.  We ate dinner in Carmel-by-the-Sea

California Vacation Part 5 - Malibu to Cambria

Friday, September 13 we left Malibu and drove to Santa Barbara.  It was an overcast day, in general.  Santa Barbara wasn't our favorite, but we were only there a couple of hours and only walked around.  We walked the pier and State Street.  We had lunch and then had a wine tasting at the Funk Zone.  The wine tasting was our favorite experience, as Darrell's flight was in honor of the movie, "Sideways," and the man in charge of the wine tasting was originally from the Quad Cities (Illinois side).

The drive to Cambria was beautiful, but Cambria was fogged in so our planned hike was a bust.  We ended the day by eating at Linn's Restaurant https://www.linnseats.com/