Wednesday, September 22, 2010

CA trip part 1

Pour le long week end de la fete du travail, nous sommes partis faire la cote de la Californie, San Francisco et des parcs nationaux... Voila la 1ere partie de nos vacances, la cote de San Luis Obispo a Monterey. For the long week end of labor day, we went up the coast of California, San Francisco and national parks... Here is the 1st part, the coast from San Luis Obispo to Monterey.
La nape blanche est la brume marine. Il y en avait beaucoup, ce qui etait dommage et qui va nous obliger a refaire la cote un jour!!! The fog! There was a lot which was sad and so we'll have to do the coast sometimes again!!!




J'aime le contraste de la paille versus les arbres! I like the contrast of the dried grass vs trees!



Plage de phoques, presque vide a cette periode de l'annee. Les enfants aux ecoles alentours font des excursions pour les voir! Sea lions beach, almost empty at this time of year. Kids at school in the area do trips to see them!


Ils ne sont pas morts, juste endormis! They are not dead, just asleep!

Nous etions donc soit au-dessus de la brume marine soit en-dessous! So we were above the fog or under it!






Une partie de Monterey s'appelle la route de 17 miles, c'est la ou il y a un golf connu (Junior connait ca!) de tres belles maisons et de beaux paysages! South of Monterey, the 17 miles road offers nice views, a well-known golf (Junior knows about it!) and beautiful homes.


Chevreuils qui traversent la route! Deers crossing the road!




Meme les bornes d'incendie sont elegantes!!! Even the fire fountains are elegant!
Notre future maison de vacances !!! Our futur second home!


Une partie de nos amis qui ont fait la route avec nous! Some of our friends who came with us that day!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

You were just north of my hometown, it is a nice place up where you were. I like it better there than SD because of the plants. Looks like you had fun.