Big Sur, California [OC][2048 x 1365] : EarthPorn

My immediate thought was the exact same thing because I'm also a linguist. Living at DLI right now, haven't been to big sur yet. Is it really that great?

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I watch "Play Misty for Me" occasionally to remember what I'm missing.

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A must visit in Big Sur is Esalen Institute. World renowned, and possibly the best, natural hot springs baths in the world. Trust a big surian.

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Go to Napenthe for lunch

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Especially like this great pic in reddit. You are so excellent

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The best part about Highway 1 is they cut out scenic pull-over areas literally every 100 yards or so. They really make it convenient to get out and take pictures. Just don't run out of gas on t...

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Recently went camping there with some friends. Amazing place! I love the Californian coastline!

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome

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A lot of the really classically touristy places are like that, I think. I haven't seen Mt. Rushmore, but all indications are that it's a bit of a letdown. Though it is right there in the Black Hi...

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Julia Pfeiffer State Park and Pfeiffer beach.

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Cunning?

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I would suggest spending at least one night in big sur to really appreciate it. Don't rush through it. And don't drive at night, very dark.

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This is why I love Big Sur with every fiber of my being: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-mEl2wAh42w We'll be there in three weeks.

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It's a good book too

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For all you pacific coast virgins, that water isn't nearly as warm and inviting as it appears.

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Cambria is my hometown and I live in Monterey now. Without question, you need to see Hearst Castle in San Simeon (7 miles north of Cambria on Highway 1). Some lesser visited spots in Monterey Cou...

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I can't wait to live here one day. It's been one of the only dreams I've stuck with since childhood.

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Love the poetic touch you added there. Cypress trees looming over the rocky coast, leaning into the ocean breeze with sun glistening the white sand.

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One of the best places I have ever been! Two California Condors were flying literally right above me at one of the turn offs. They were like pterodactyls.

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Asilomar beach is like 5 minutes away from me :)

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You should crosspost this to /r/CaliforniaPics !

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I'm an Australian who will be driving down the coast of Cali in October this year, couldn't be more excited for my trip now!

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I upvote anything big sur

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While youre here check out Carmel valley, there are some chill spots

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Reppin the 831!!! I love M Bay we have the best nature and clean beaches!!

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Korean 3/3 here

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Monterey's aquarium has ruined all other aquariums for me. None of them even come close.

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You said you were local so I assumed your name was "CarmelShakers"

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TRUE, forgot about that one.

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It's pretty good, I do SMB consulting and wireless ISP from Santa Cruz to Carmel, even in to Big Sur a little. There's a ton of Hotels and whatnot that need support, but what we have been doing a...

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My english is not that good, so i wondered what a linguist was. Apparently a person who study or work with language of different kinds? I find it a bit odd that there is a area/place connected to...

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Don't forget Laguna Seca for the motor vehicle enthusiast. The camping there overlooking the Fort Ord hills can be pretty picturesque.

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Ill give you a couple recommendations of what you'll pass by: > SANTA CRUZ- if you've never been here, it's one of the most > liberal/hippy and unique towns you'll visit. Dow...

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I hope to study there one day. It's such an amazing institution!

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To do psychedelics forsure.

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I'm going there in May on a field trip!

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I got to enjoy Big Sur / most of Highway 1 in this lovely rental with a cutie by my side . I highly recommend it!

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During my stay in the US, I hired a Mustang in SF, drove th whole Pacific Coast Highway, (1) down, it takes a long time. Big Sur was actually incredible though, got a lot of photos of the coast (...

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"Water, water everywhere and all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Here's me looking at where the photo was taken, possibly my favorite place on Earth. http://i.imgur.com/8LPNelK.jpg

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Here it is at night. http://imgur.com/qGtGPUR This is a pic of a picture I bought. It is poor quality because I do not want to rip off http://www.chrismurdochphotography.com/ But I thought you ...

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I'm an Aussie and recently did the trip from san fran to LA along the coast. It blows my mind that not too far outside of LA (which is dense, smoggy and so, so many people) you get such beautiful...

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I lived in Monterey for about a year...I was a linguist.

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I was born there, how I wish I had grown up there. You mentioned a lot of great things. Now I want a bagel, though. Apparently mom used to go on walks with baby me on Asilomar.

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The place where we stopped to get gas was brutal. About a year later I learned it's the most expensive gas station in the USA

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Worth it every time.

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I was born in Monterey but moved when I was 3 years old. I've gone back every 2 years, or so, to visit family. A Big Sur trip is always a necessity. My uncle took me out onto one of the cliffs la...

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Same with me! A day of smoking weed and getting blowjobs. Oh, the memories...

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How's the private sector computer science industry out there? I'd love to live in one of the cities on the coast in that area (Santa Cruz down to Monterey perhaps, I have a few friends in Aptos)....

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Dude I was just here! There was a dead seal, and 22 fucking California condors showed up. I'm still in shock, and it happened over a week ago. It was at Pfeiffer beach too, the really photogenic ...

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If you stop on the side of the road, you'll just start crying. The place is absolutely stunning.

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Niagara falls. Of course the falls themselves are amazing but I just remember it being a bit too commercialized. I remember thinking "Did they really have to put a starbucks right here?" It was a...

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We do have a lot of nice things, the problem is we don't have that high quality of life due to the cost of living.

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My friends and I did that trail about a month ago. We started it at like 5 o'clock when the sun set at 7 and we forgot our lights we pretty much got to the top just after sunset and had to run do...

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DO IT!

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Beautiful landscape, but driving this stretch of the PCH was absolutely one of the most nerve-racking experiences of my life.

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California is beautiful.

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"tripping balls" hahaha looks like it'd be awesome.

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I was there from the UK about a month back. What a beautiful part of the world. I could happily live there. If only for the flame grilled oysters at the fish house.

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Also the 17-Mile Drive! The summer I studied in Monterey, some of the languages students stayed at a boarding school on the 17-Mile Drive. It made for the most beautiful daily commute of my life:...

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Obviously you're not a golfer.

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Paris

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https://plus.google.com/photos/114819156414771528418/albums/5975560129770752929 Here's a link to my personal photos of the Garrapata State Park day hike. I'm a local here, so I know the area w...

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I'm proud of the rep Monterey is getting here right now. Hometown pride! It really was a wonderful town to grow up in. I recommend everyone in the US visit at least once, if possible. We've got S...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1eRLqpYs2A :D

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I PR'd that son of a bitch in 2010. Made top 50... what a glorious course.

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The 2015 race is this weekend

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You should try camping here, it's amazing. This is what you see when you get out of your tent in the morning. Hike for about 10 minutes and youre at the beach!

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Crazy to see how many people have lived in Monterey. I thought I was special.

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see my comment pls...ur only one that thinks like me i guess

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I don't know man, I see a lot of water in that picture.

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"Donny was a good bowler, and a good man. He was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors... and bowling, and as a surfer he explored the beaches of Southern California, from La Jolla to Le...

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I believe I was in aperture priority.

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Man Look at all that water! Californians be lying

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Computer science/ goverment

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I may regret asking this, but what places ended up being a big fat anti-climax?

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Also MIIS (Monterey Institute of International Studies). I studied Russian there one summer, many years ago.

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If you ever visit here, John Adams' "The Dharma at Big Sur" is mandatory listening.

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My mom keeps urging me to go to "Big Sur" with her. I never knew what it was like there though. I think I'll call her up :)

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Most amazing place in the world, I lived there once to, Ft Ord (army)

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Fuck it dude lets go bowling.

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Closely? less than 10. How many did I work with over the course of my Air Force career? Over 100 easily.

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Your aperture is just a bit too high. What mode were you on when you took that?

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How cunning of you.

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What do you do for work there? I'd love to live in a place like Monterey but I can't imagine finding a job that could support the cost of living on the California coast.

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How many linguists do you know? Edit: I didn't mean to sound like I was calling them out. I didn't mean to be.

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Well, it is a pretty good spot ;) E: Also, I like your color saturation better. I need to learn to use my Canon T3i properly...

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Was this taken on the part of the beach where the woods are? That path through the woods is awesome to go through and it leads to Jack Kerouac's cabin.

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I'm french and I have been there while I was in California just because I am a fan of Richard Brautigan and his general of Big Sur. I wasn't expecting anything and surely wasn't disappointed.

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.Just don't go back to Big Sur. Baby baby please don't go.

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…and this is actually the UGLY part of Big Sur! Not joking

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Swimming in this Ocean, at this spot, is a sex change operation

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Hippy girls give the best blowjobs.

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Holy shit we actually stood in the exact same spot: http://imgur.com/DeQ5XLK

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I don't use "magical" to describe many places, but it's the only accurate way to describe Big Sure.

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I've lived in Northern California all of my life and Big Sur is by far my favorite place in the state if not the world. My wife and I were married at Pfeiffer Beach last fall. Go visit. You won't...

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Elephant seals, and sometimes if you are lucky a herd of Zebras. Citizen Cane himself brought them over from Africa along with a lot of large game so he could impress his hollywood guests with a ...

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Yeah, in my opinion it wasn't anything too crazy until after Morro Bay. But once I hit Big Sur it became the single greatest road I've ever been on besides La Honda. I'm so jealous you live right...

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Big Creek bridge in the distance. Major reserve ran by the Nature Conservancy there. Found a dead mountain lion while hiking up the creek one day, they have it stuffed now. ... The beach in the f...

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Fuck I love living in california

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Seeing the condors there was one of the coolest experiences of my life. As we inched the car down hwy 1, one flew about ten feet in front of our car.

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i like sand dollar beach. super scary surfing there. sharky as shit.

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I lived in Big Sur for a few months and miss the tacos from the Taphouse every day. If not for the view, at least go for the tacos!

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Enjoy spending 4k per month for a closet.

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I thought the same thing and went a week ago. Couldn't stand in that Big Sur water for more than 10 seconds before my legs felt like they would fall off :)

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From TO you will get to Morro Bay in 2 hours. After that the entire trip north on the 1 is excellent. The time traveling does not matter.

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Hey I live here too! Some people take for granted how nice this whole area is

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Don't forget the elephant seal breeding ground just north of Hearst Castle.

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Sadly I have lived in Monterey for 15 years and I forget how nice it is here I get trapped in the rut of work and even get pissed off about being stuck in a traffic jam full of feraries once a ye...

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Not to mention a great quantity of great white sharks because of the cold water and seals.

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It is NOT 4 hours to san francisco. You might hit monterey in 4 if your lucky. San francisco is at least 7 hours. Lots of chp near solvang and los osos area as well. And near paso robles.

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For gods sake do not go on a timeline. Its about 4 hours, but you will want to stop and gawk around almost EVERY TURN. I'm not kidding. Its also a two lane road, and you cant go 80. Be aware.

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And between the two there are some beautiful, relatively remote, hill top mansions looking over the water. That whole stretch of the CA coast is pretty magical.

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Taken on my drive from LA to SF via PCH in September, 2013

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And sharky.....especially that portion of ocean

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True, It takes upwards of 5 hours! Recently did a drive from SF to Thousand Oaks. The drive will blow your mind. Its absolutely gorgeous.

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Like others mentioned, that's where DLI is located. But also, nearly all the linguists I knew where there approximately 1-1.5 years. So Putting those two references together made me suspect lingu...

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I think so three.

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Except water..haven't been getting much of that lately

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Right now its gloomy. Wait for sun.

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Yes.

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Sparkles light with yellow icing just a mirror for the sun.

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Just one question. Is Big Sur pronounced as Big Sir?

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If you've never driven between Monterey and SB get in a fucking car and do it right now.

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The drive up the 1 to Big Sur is one of my favorite things, stop by Hearst Castle in San Simeon and if you see a lot of people on the side of the road passed Cambria pull over and you'll be able ...

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If you're worried about making time, you won't appreciate Big Sur. The time from anywhere to Big Sur is "now until it gets dark".

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There's a 2 mile long hill leading up to the halfway point... and that wasn't the toughest part of the race.

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Oh my god, that sounds amazing. I've only run one marathon and have been wanting to do a second... but you may have lost me at "route is very challenging." I did R&R San Diego and it was flat fla...

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I think so too.

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Gonna be moving up to San Francisco soon but I'm gonna miss Monterey. Sitting outside the library to the community college now and it's always a great view. I think I'll post a picture here som...

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THIS. We made the mistake of going, "eh, we'll be fine," and ended up having stop at a gas station charging almost $6 a gallon. PAINFUL.

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Big Sur was one of those places I thought was going to be a big fat anti-climax after all the hype but... ...no. It really does look like this.

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Just make sure you fill up before getting on it, the gas stations are far and wide and very expensive

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Just proposed to my girlfriend while camping in big sur last month. That place is paradise on earth

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Arabic :D

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This is where my fiancee and I got engaged! Thanks for the nice picture :)

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I did the Big Sur marathon a few years ago. It was incredible - one of the highlights of my life so far for sure. You basically start off 26.5 miles south of Monterey on Highway 1 and run almos...

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I live here now. I should really go to Big Sur more. Thank you for helping me to live a fuller life through your mistakes.

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"Blue you look so pretty west of the 1"

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Man, I wish I lived in california. You guys get the good stuff.

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DLI perhaps. (Defense Language Institute)

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i know right? i took pch from san francisco to nearly socal on my way back from a little trip. and god damn it was beautiful!

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Highway 1 (and 101 in parts of California) is such a joy to drive. Much better if you're in the passenger seat and you're traveling south.

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Big Sur might just be the best place in the whole world.

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Was there last month. I couldn't believe how blue it was!

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Better than On the Road! Though I have the biggest soft spot for the double-punch of reading Maggie Cassady followed by Tristessa...

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Was backpacking there this weekend.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1fGNCvZL_w :)

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I drove all of the PCH. I had to break it up into 2 trips. So beautiful except for the LA metro area especially Long beach. Not much to see and horrible traffic with a million red lights Now ...

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And here's mine!

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south florida, gulf of mexico

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I am graduating next year and hoping to move down to Cali from British Columbia. I love the warm weather and beaches :)

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What's the connection between living in Monterey and being a linguist?

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Google Maps

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Garrapata is incredible! I can't wait to hike there again.

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Caribbean?

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I grew up on the Monterey Peninsula. I'm in school in Alabama now. I miss this view every single day. My background on my phone is a photo of the sunset at Asilomar Beach (about a ten minute walk...

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Jumped in when I was tripping once, it was fucking freezing but worth it.

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You're on the 5 going to San Francisco. The 1 takes a lot longer.

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Drove the PCH from LA to San Gregorio in January. I have never continuously smiled for so long in my entire life.

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Ah, I see. Thanks for the correction!

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Actually those are two different bridges. Your picture is the Bixby Bridge, the other one is Big Creek bridge, which is a little further south IIRC

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Pacific Islands!

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Yep! Here is my unedited shot from my Oneplus :D

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How many places have a genuinely warm (not lukewarm) ocean? Maldives, Seychelles, French Polynesia,...?

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Holy shit 5 to 7?! That's like going to San Francisco(5) or Vegas(4-5).

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its a long ass drive. go to the henry miller library and also have a seat at fernwood. both are great places fairly close to each other.

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This probably is not the best place to swim in the ocean. Water is pretty cold.

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About 4 1/2 to 5

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It depends on the traffic so it can be anywhere from 5 to 7 hours I think

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I'm going to LA in August. How long is the drive from Thousand oaks to Big Sur?

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Bixby Bridge.

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This one's a bit chilly, just to warn ya.

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You'll find mostly serpentine which is literally everywhere in Jade Cove. Serpentine is easily scratched, Jade is not scratchable . Been there a few times and have yet to find Jade.

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This is such a gorgeous place. I've only been in this area a couple of times, but if you do ever get a chance, you need to drive down the coast of California.

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I think this is the same bridge :)

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I was in Big Sur a month ago for the first time. The natural beauty is mind-blowing. We stopped somewhere along Highway 1 and I took this photo on my iPhone. 100% unedited. https://i.imgur.com/...

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Not at all. I just used to work with a lot of people who spent approximately that amount of time there at the Defense Language Institute.

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I took a photo almost exactly like this on a hike at Andrew Molera

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Ha! Had the same thought right away, must be a linguist. I was lucky enough to go twice for a total of three years. Amazing place.

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Chinese Mandarin reporting in.

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Was. I recently crosstrained.

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Just south of here is jade cove where you can find jade. You have to ease down a dangerous cliff. Just make sure you know what jade looks like before you go. All I knew it was a green rock. We ...

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Monterey.. about a year and a half.. are you a linguist?

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I'm so glad to see a different perspective of Big Sur! This is wonderful!

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Always wanted to see and swim in a blue ocean.

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I lived in Monterey for about a year and a half and one of my biggest regrets was not going to Big Sur enough.

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One of my favorite places in all of California. I love the coastal highway.

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This is near Garrapata State Park. My favorite hike in central CA.

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Spending an evening here watching the sun set is definitely on my list of must-do's.

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