When we woke up early on Sunday morning, we were starving! Sleeping through dinner the night before was wonderful, but my stomach growled constantly until we found a place to eat breakfast. We had reserved Sunday for driving, so we bundled up and started driving south along the Pacific Coast Highway (CA-1) towards Moss Beach. Everything about the "One" was beautiful. The roads were twisty and the fog was hovering over the water and there were places to pull off all along our route. The first place we stopped that was close enough to shore for us to walk cost us $10. Although the beach itself was stunning, the park was so dirty and campers had trashed the viewing area. I was disappointed, but we hit the road and kept on driving. I tried uploading an image on my phone to share, but ...
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San Francisco: Day Two
I had been stalking the weather in San Francisco for weeks before we left and since Josh was already in California for nine days, I thought I would be prepared. It turns out mid-sixties in sunny Alabama with high humidity is a stark contrast to mid-sixties in a foggy, drizzly, zero-humidity city. The moral of this story? Pack sweaters and jeans for coastal towns in Northern California. Thankfully, we knew that morning that we needed to wear our warmest clothes. For Josh that was workouts (again) and for me, it was my new jeans and sweater from Stitch Fix. Our plan for the morning was brunch in Haight Ashbury before heading south. We started out at The Grind and it was an even better breakfast than the day before. I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I had french toast and hashbrowns again!! ...
San Francisco: Day One
In the days before we left for San Francisco, there was a lot of drama about when we would go and where we would stay. There was an entire week when we thought his trip would be canceled, so I waited until the last possible minute to book my plane tickets and find a hotel. Room rates continued to climb while we waited and a once reasonable timeshare that we booked was inexplicably cancelled at the last minute, we started looking at other options. Rather than lay down $1600 for a hotel room we didn't want, I took to AirBnB and started searching. In case you aren't familiar, it is similar to VRBO in that you are renting from an individual, but it's a much more secure process and there are hundreds of rentals available. Although it was advertised as a "gritty neighborhood", we booked an ...