driving

today was absolutely gorgeous. this was the driving i came out here to do. highway one ran right along the coast today, and it was simply wonderful. the first couple photos are from julia pfeiffer burns state park. the rest are from a seal watching pullout just north of san simeon and the willow creek picnic ground (part of the los padres national forest). the very friendly chipmunk was at willow creek. there were a lot of the little buggers running about, trying to get food from the humans. silly animals. i know i should have more to say since today was fantastic... but the views were just something you need to see.

also, i just posted on the hearst castle. i've got this page set up to only show one post at a time, so if you haven't checked this in the past 20 minutes, you probably didn't see the hearst post yet. aren't you glad i left those handy-dandy links to previous posts on the right? :)