California scenery: Driving through the beautiful mountains

Today is my third post in a series of photographs from a day trip we took in California when traveling to San Francisco. We left the city and headed north and ended up on a lovely mountain road which took us through farmland and eventually the Pacific Ocean. To this day I have no idea of the route we took (pre-GPS days and we literally decided to just "drive"), but we did pass through a town called La Honda. (By searching on Google Maps, and judging by where we ended up, I think we may have taken Route 84?)

Some of the things we saw on that mountain road -

Almost out of the woods!

California scenery: Taking a ride through farmland

In my last post I revisited my first and only time seeing the Pacific Ocean. It was a fun journey finding our way to the coast. Along the way we traveled through mountains and farmland before unexpectedly seeing the Pacific (this was pre-GPS days for us!), we kind of sort of used a map if memory serves, but mostly followed the roads that looked interesting with gorgeous views.

Today's post highlights the farmland we passed through just before seeing the Pacific Ocean.

California scenery: Taking a ride along the Pacific on Route 1

I've only been to California once, back in 2006, but fortunately we managed to see and do a lot for the 7 days we were visiting. Most of our time was spent in San Francisco, but we did take a day to just "drive". We ended up on an interesting journey. One that took us through some beautiful mountains, farmland and eventually (and unexpectedly!) coming out on a road where the Pacific Ocean was smack in front of us. We were hoping to see the ocean, but seeing it so unexpectedly made it even better.

Today's series of photos was taken after we reached the Pacific coast. We started at San Gregorio Beach, stopped at several beaches along the way and our trip ended around Santa Cruz (as time was running out and we had to get back to San Francisco). It was a lovely day!