July 7th - Monterey

7th July - We spent almost all day in Monterey, in the Aquarium for the most part then drove down to San Simeon.

The Sea Otters were the very best thing, followed by the pretty Albatross!

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We spent the night in San Simeon Motel 6 (had bad service in the attached diner, but tipped because it was the only place to have breakfast :/) - The 8th saw us visiting Hearst Castle

Past California Pictures:

5th and 6th July - https://weaselett.dreamwidth.org/14098.html

4th July - https://weaselett.dreamwidth.org/13830.html

July 8th-9th

We had an easier day on the 8th July - spending the morning doing a Hearst Castle tour then driving to Lancaster via Santa Barbara. Then the 9th was driving from Lancaster to Palm Springs, stopping at Calico Ghost Town on route.

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Sadly as the driver I did not manage to take any pictures of the desert landscape, or night time LA from a distance. Or the huge solar and wind farm. It was the first time we had to fuel up (scary, in a 'ok so how does this work here' but we managed - it's interesting the whole pay first then fill up to that amount kinda thing, as someone used to paying after).