Summer of Love Day 26 Log
- 9:56 am: Leaving Monterey for our next stop, Las Vegas!
- 12:37 pm: Paying $4.66/gallon for gas.
- 3:33 pm: Starting to cross the Mojave Desert. 103 outside.
- 6:50 pm: 107 °F outside. Scared.
- 7:12 pm: Paying $5.50/gallon for gas. No joke. 60 miles outside Las Vegas.
- 11:05 pm: Super happy with our room at Mandeley Bay. Great setup.
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Driving to Vegas
After days of beautiful scenery and amazing vistas our view today is all blacktop. We are on our way to Las Vegas for the next stop on the Summer of Love. We’ll be driving through the scorching Mojave Desert on our way. We are just getting close, and it’s already 103 °F out.
$5.50 Gasoline
We’ve happened to take our longest road trip ever during the most expensive gas prices ever. We’ve been hitting gas in the mid $4 range for a while now, but today as we were nearing the Nevada border we set a new high.
$5.499 for a gallon of gas. Ouch.
Summer of Love Day 25 Log
- 11:11 am: Heading to Carmel this morning.
- 1:48 pm: Amazed with Carmel. Blue Dog gallery is dangerous.
- 4:34 pm: Left Tammy in Carmel for the afternoon. At house with Mazie for nap time.
- 4:55 pm: Ugh - carpenter starts drilling in room right underneath where Mazie is napping!
- 4:58 pm: Theory that we may be the very first guests to stay at this rental house is being reinforced. Not bad. But very uncoordinated.
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Summer of Love Day 24 Log
- Driving down CA-1 to Big Sur. Listening to Jack Johnson. (12:29 pm)
- Feet have sand on them (12:41 pm)
- Amazing morning going down the coast. Early lunch stop at Nepenthe. (1:19 pm)
- Amazing lunch with unbelievable view. Wow. (2:38 pm)
- Possibly the best day of our trip yet. Big Sur and surrounding areas are great! (7:13 pm)
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The traveling family is taking the 4th week of the road trip to eschew a restaurant, and I’m making pasta! Yeah!
Summer of Love Day 22 Log
- 12:03 pm: Leaving San Francisco, headed to Monterey for next stop on Summer of Love.
- 2:08 pm: Pulling into Monterey, CA.
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Expansive, Powerful and Majestic
Our Summer of Love trip was never intended to be a camping or hiking trip. We booked all of our visits in hotels and motels and have stuck to restaurants.
We have had three stops in national parks on the trip and they made a big impact on me. Each one of them represented another facet of nature, facets that we too often forget.
Glacier National Park: Expansive
Mount St. Helens: Powerful
Redwood Forest: Majestic
Humbling.
In line at Tartine Bakery.
Sounds of the Redwoods
While we were walking with the big Redwoods I stopped for a moment to do a quick field recording. This isn’t pristine. You’ll catch a moment of wind noise, and if you listen really, really close you may hear a truck in the distance very faintly. Mainly though, you hear the birds and majesty.
