Big Sur on the Pacific Coast Highway

Lunch at the world-famous Nepenthe, where you can forget all your troubles. 

My son Benjamin and I took a road trip down the iconic Pacific Coast Highway the first week in July. 

Benjamin did all the driving; I got to take in the views. We started in Mountain View and hugged the coast throughout Big Sur, from Carmel to San Simeon.  The highway curves along the Pacific, with hairpin turns worthy of all the car commercials filmed there. Along the way we passed the Henry Miller library, the Eselen Institute (hang out of hippies and Silicon Valley millionaires), and listened to loud Elephant Seals.  We were only forced back on to Interstate 5 after Huntington Beach and Malibu.