Monterey -> Sausalito

Waking up on the Monterey peninsula, in the beautifully kitsch, beautifully pink Palm Grove motel, we set out on the morning of November the 28th for a tour of the super expensive 17 mile drive, home of such identities as (now deceased) former president Ronald Reagan. We took a look at world-renowned Pebble Beach golf course, then continued through the 17 mile drive and some stunning coastal views and similarly amazing houses. We then drove on to Monterey proper, and visited the genuine fish markets (not the touristy cannery row section), where we had another close encounter with some marine wildlife. And then, we were headed North, through Northern California, past freedom (Boulevard) and into the kind of country that you imagine of middle America, homely, ramshackle and pretty. We stopped for lunch at the pigeon point lighthouse, then pushed on, but as we got closer and closer to San Francisco, the weather began to close in. So we drove across the most famous bridge in the world in the rain, but I'm told that's par for the course in a San Franciscan winter. We eventually found accomodation across the bridge, in a pretty little town called Sausalito, and bedded down for the night, rain bucketing down outside, in preparation for our first day in the white city.
Argh... I'm still a day behind in updating this thing, but I took 80 photos today, and I don't think I have time to do justice to my first day in SF. So tommorow then.... See y'all, and keep commenting, It's great to keep in touch.