Driving the Pacific Coast Highway

We made it out of SF alive, and headed south on the famous Highway 1 - the Pacific Coast Highway. We did the spectacular drive over three days, firstly stopping in Monterey, and exploring the Monterey peninsula. The second day was definitely the highlight with the amazing section of the coastal drive at Big Sur, where the road was empty and the scenery beautiful.


The second overnight stop was at San Luis Obispo, which was quite a lively, happening little place. From there the drive was slightly less interesting, and it then became truly stressful as we hit the overcrowded Los Angeles freeways. We abandoned any half plans of stopping in LA and kept going south, all the way to San Diego.