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Big Sur, California Highway 1, just north of Garrapata Creek Bridge: 12 January 2019 So that when later I heard people say “Oh Big Sur must be beautiful!” I gulp to wonder why it has the reputation of being beautiful above and beyond its fearfulness, its Blakean groaning roughrock Creation throes, those vistas when you […]
Stevenson House / French House where Robert Louis Stevenson stayed while in Monterey, California Picture sourceLast summer I posted on visiting Robert Louis Stevenson State Park and the memorial commemorating his stay there as detailed in The Silverado Squatters. The hike up to the top of Mt. Saint Helena provides one of the best views […]
“Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.” Robert Louis Stevenson (incorrect in this instance) in The Silverado Squatters Left side: This tablet placed by the Club Women of Napa County marks the site of the cabin occupied in 1880 by Robert Louis Stevenson and bride while he wrote The Silverado Squatters.Right side: “Doomed to know not […]
View of Tor House and Hawk Tower from Scenic Drive, Carmel, CaliforniaI really enjoyed my tour of Robinson Jeffers’ Tor House on Friday. The setting was perfect–a storm was working its way toward shore–to admire Jeffers’ handiwork and his poems. So while I’m back at work and have to clean up after someone broke into […]
My wife will attend a seminar in Monterey Friday, so I’m taking the day off to tag along for the fun of it. While I don’t have firm plans there are many things I love doing in the Big Sur / Carmel / Monterey area, of which I’m sure I’ll include these two: Robinson Jeffers’ […]