DAY TWO: * Los Altos Hills * Mountain View * Los Altos Hills * Monterey * sea otters & clam chowder * super big crowd & super long queues at Monterey Bay Aquarium - no go =( * 17-mile drive * squirrels by e sea * cypress trees * Carmel * Bixby Creek bridge * Big Sur coast * San Simeon *

DAY THREE: * San Simeon * Cambria * Morro Bay * Morro Rock * San Luis Obispo * Paso Robles * searing desert heat * Kettleman City * Visalia * star-, moon- & Mars-gazing in e empty cloudless desert sky *

Bubba Gump @ Monterey: shop that sells Forrest Gump souvenir stuff; this is probably e largest pair of shoes I've ever tried on	Hairy Otter: earlier in e morning, watched an otter diving & floating lazily on its back as it pried open shellfish for breakfast
big fat gull, Monterey Peninsula	Pacific Ocean: world's biggest golf course water hazard
sis on rocks	cat on more rocks
even more rocks	beach squirrel: never knew that they lived in rocks along e seashore
17-mile drive	17-mile drive
parents + rental car	Lone Cypress, 17-mile drive, Monterey Peninsula

bad hair day	bad hair day (close-up)	no hair day

e tree with no sense of direction: never seen a tree do xia4 yao1 before *grin*	e tree that scared my sis
flowers, Pebble Beach Golf Links, Monterey Peninsula	Bixby Creek bridge, Big Sur coast: sis is somewhere behind a piece of concrete pillar that broke off during a landslide
Big Sur coast	Big Sur coast
long drop down e cliff	Big Sur coast & e fog that its famous for
beautiful-but-dunno-its-name bay, Big Sur coast	close-up of e bay
early morning @ Cambria	Cambria: cold enough that your breath condensed, but sis was happily climbing around in shorts & flip flops
fei4 hua4 @ Morro Bay	supermarket @ Morro Bay: like in all our previous trips, lived out of supermarkets, long2 men2 ke4 zhan4 (parents' term for motels) & fast food chains - 2 weeks worth of Super 8, Safeway, Walgreens, Wal-Mart, Long's Drugs, RiteAid, McDonald's breakfasts & BK!

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