Life According to Jim

Whew! Today we made our epic journey down the Pacific Coast Highway - it's actually called Shoreline Highway north of San Francisco. We drove 182 miles of winding, curvy, foggy, sunny, tree-covered, diving, swooping road. I actually had sore spots on my hands from steering and using the manual shifter, but what a blast to drive!

As usual, we just made it out before check-out time at 11 under gray skies. We had an ocean view from our room and enjoyed breakfast to the surf and highway sounds just under our window. We eventually hit some sun and lucked out by stopping at a beautiful beach with chocolate-brown sand - Manchester State Beach. It was one of the few totally sunny spots we had along the coast.

After a few hours, the switchbacks, hairpins and various other-size corners start to blend together. We'll need to go through our pictures and video to remember everything we saw. We came off the coast highway just before the Golden Gate bridge which was really fogged in this time. We stopped at Mel's Drive-In in downtown San Francisco for meatloaf, burgers, floats and malts. We're currently camped in San Jose directly under the airport flight path getting ready to run home.

This was the view from our hotel window. Probably a great place when at sunset when it's clear.

Here's Mary modeling her recently-knitted hat. She almost had blisters from furious back-seat knitting a few days ago.

This is the chocolate-colored beach. Because of the color, the sand was toasty warm by the water and burning hot farther back. Jimbo said the wet sand looked like coffee grounds.

Here's a self-portrait we took at a cove I can't remember the name of.

Just a small sample of the roads we took. This is a Jimbo-shooting-from-above-the-car special.

Mel's in downtown SF. We played the oldies jukebox while chowing on ground beef at the counter.