This week I’m wandering to sunny California, and to a stretch of road known as 17 Mile Drive. It runs along the coast of the Monterey Peninsula, a small outcrop of land first mapped by Spanish explorers in 1602. The road was laid out by a consortium of railroad barons, who purchased the land inContinue reading “Wednesday Wander – 17 Mile Drive, Monterey”
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Wednesday Wander – Monterey, California
This week I’m wandering along the California coast line, to the town of Monterey. Almost half way between San Francisco and Los Angeles, Monterey has been a fishing village and cannery, both the Mexican and the Spanish capital of Alta California (during the Mexican-American war), the only point of entry for taxable goods in California,Continue reading “Wednesday Wander – Monterey, California”
Helen Glynn Jones 