El Paso may have been a great city, but California is one amazing entire state. After a night overlooking the Golden State from an Arizona campground on the Colorado River, and a visit to Joshua Tree National Park and its remarkable rock formations that look like sets from the Lone Ranger, we have arrived on CA Route 1 along the Big Sur coast—arguably the most scenic highway in the US of A.A phone call with Tom, who has hiked and camped here, left us with a number of suggestions on where to stop on our way north, and we are now watching the sun set in Kirk Creek Campground on a bluff overlooking the Pacific. We started the day in Morro Bay, a commercial fishing (and tourist) town very much like Chatham, but with a rock rising 580’ above the sea at the entrance to the harbor, and will continue tomorrow to Santa Cruz and possibly Año Nuevo State Park and its colony of sea lions.
I only wish our approach to Tom and Kate’s didn’t mean that we are about to reach the turnaround point of our trip, though (unlike last year) we hope to see some of the places we missed on our 2007 express run to North Carolina to see Claire Frances Kimball, the new granddaughter, whose first birthday is a week from today. -DJN
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