PLACES YOU NEED TO VISIT
San Francisco
San Francisco, in northern California, is a hilly city on the tip of a peninsula surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. It's known for its year-round fog, iconic Golden Gate Bridge.
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge and considered as the most beautiful and most photographed bridge in the world. I like the northern side of the bridge near the old army lookout point as it is an amazing vista of the bridge especially at night where the lights bounce off. If you into photography you’re going to love this place.
The bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California, and the United States. It has been declared one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Big Sur
Big Sur is a 60 miles drive along the winding Highway 1 and will be one of the best drives you make in your life. This is the perfect coastline drive in California. There are vistas at every turn, each one better than the last. Bridges that span the coastline, the Bixby Creek Bridge.
This iconic Bixby Creek Bridge in the northern part of Big Sur is one of the tallest single-span concrete bridges in the world.
Along with the ocean views, this winding, narrow road, often cut into the face of towering seaside cliffs, dominates the visitor's experience of Big Sur. The highway has been closed more than 55 times by landslides, and in May 2017, a 2,000,000-cubic-foot (57,000 m3) slide blocked the highway at Mud Creek, north of Salmon Creek near the San Luis Obispo County line, to just south of Gorda. The road was reopened on July 18, 2018.
Monterey Bay
Monterey Bay is a bay of the Pacific Ocean located on the coast of the U.S. state of California. The bay is south of the major cities of San Francisco and San Jose. The county-seat city of Santa Cruz is located at the north end of the bay.
Monterey served as California’s first capital when the state’s first constitution was signed in the coastal city in 1849.
The first European to discover Monterey Bay was Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo on November 16, 1542 while sailing northward along the coast on a Spanish naval expedition. He named the bay Bahía de los Pinos, probably because of the forest of pine trees first encountered while rounding the peninsula at the southern end of the bay. Cabrillo's name for the bay was lost, but the westernmost point of the peninsula is still known as Point Pinos.
Pebble Beach
Pebble Beach is an unincorporated community on the Monterey Peninsula in Monterey County, California. In addition to lying at sea level and being a small coastal residential community of mostly single-family homes, and if love you love Golf, Pebble Beach is a resort destination and home to the famous golf courses of Cypress Point Club, Monterey Peninsula Country Club, and Pebble Beach Golf Links.
Pebble Beach has eight public and private 18-hole golf courses. Pebble Beach Golf Links, The Links at Spanish Bay, Spyglass Hill and Peter Hay Golf Course are owned by Pebble Beach Company and are all public courses. Poppy Hills is also a public course. Private courses located at Pebble Beach are Cypress Point Club and the private Monterey Peninsula Country Club's two courses, the Dunes Course and the Shore Course. Pebble Beach Company also owns Del Monte Golf Course a few miles away in Monterey, which is the oldest continuously operating course in the Western United States.
If your fan of witchcraft, the famous landmark, known as the "Witch Tree," stood for decades at Pescadero Point at Pebble Beach, until it fell during a storm on January 14, 1964. It was sometimes used as scenic background in movies and television.