Richard & Sylvia's RV Adventures

Today we took a drive down Big Sur from Monterey to the village of Big Sur itself.  Big Sur is located along Scenic Highway One approximately 150 miles south of San Francisco and 300 miles north of Los Angeles. Historically, the name Big Sur was derived from that unexplored and unmapped wilderness area which lays along the coast south of Monterey.  It was simply called el país grande del sur, the Big South Country. Today, Big Sur refers to that 90-mile stretch of rugged and awesomely beautiful coastline between Carmel to the north and San Simeon (Hearst Castle) to the south. Highway One winds along its length and is flanked on one side by the majestic Santa Lucia Mountains and on the other by the rocky Pacific Coast.  This is one road that we would not want to drive the RV on… much to narrow, hilly and winding road!  This is a road and scenery to explore slowly by car just as we did today.

Here’s photos of some of the incredible views we saw today as we drove and stopped along the road.