Landslide buries PCH in Big Sur

Wow. Big mess there.

Eventually that entire coast will fall in.

That is exactly true. It's a constantly eroding coastline, and we have tried to preserve it at one exact moment. Doomed to failure.

I said we drove "from LA to San Francisco", but we actually drove west from Austin, mostly through alternative routes, took I8 and I10 from Las Cruces to San Diego (not a great decision, in hindsight - I wanted to go further north like I did back in '75, driving through the mountains along 2 lane blacktop, but the wife sorta "nixed" that), then the PCH from San Diego up to San Francisco.

I think we made about a half dozen stops along the westerly route - mostly "overnight hotel stops, with minimal touring/shopping", then about the same on the northerly direction, spending a couple of days in San Diego with a lot of visits and dayhiking, a night and day in San Clemente, a night and day in Santa Barbara with visits to beaches and hiking, a day at Pismo Beach and a day at Morro Bay (on a friend's recommendation - I didn't much care for it, but the wife loved it: lots of high winds and high wind surf, plus tons and tons of bird poo), plus a day around Big Sur and Monterrey, "doing the tour".

Finally, we spent two weeks in San Francisco and the surrounding area before "fleeing home" east. I tried to convince the wife and daughter to "stop off" at Yosemite, but I was cancelled. They were "road tired" and wanted to go home. I could have driven to Canada and back - the long way. Now, both the wife and I see the "missed opportunity" of visiting Yosemite as sad, but so it goes.

No "camping" and minimal dayhiking in the woods, though I had optimistically taken my hiking guides - we did do multiple dayhikes in and around San Francisco, including Muir Woods and Point Reyes (on successive days). Most of our "hiking" was urban - there's a hell of a lot to see in San Francisco. I need to plan another trip. In fact, long, long ago, I always dreamed of driving up the coast on a motorcycle. I think something intervened with that. Oh, that's right: a divorce! How soon one forgets!

I did that trip back in 1997. Absolutely gorgeous coastline.

Link ?

It was the Russians !! Get your provocateurs correct !

I've driven from LA to Carmel on Hwy 1 probably 5-6 times. Every time I do, I have to have this blasting on the 8 track/ cassette/CD/MP3.

RIP Hwy 1

We camped at Kirk Creek at the otter refuge (saw sea elephants and otters) last month. It's about 8 miles south of the slide. We had to come across the Los Padres as the road was closed at Carmel. The hairy road through the forest had slides all over it, and I could see that one experiencing something similar. The road work people were going back and forth over it. They may just give up.