What's a golfer to do?

When a golfer like Frank goes on vacation without his golf clubs, what's a golfer to do? Since this was our 25th anniversary trip, Frank decided (on his own without any coercion from me) not to try to play golf. However, you can't go all the way to California and not visit Pebble Beach, right? So we set out on Wednesday of our trip to visit Pebble Beach. Pebble Beach is on the Monterey peninsula about 2 hours south of San Francisco. The drive was quite scenic going between coastal and mountainous regions. When we left San Francisco, it was a cloudy day. When we arrived at Pebble Beach, the sun was shining and it was absolutely gorgeous.

This picture shows Frank standing near the 18th green at the Links course.


This is the famous icon of Pebble Beach, the lone cypress.

After exploring the Pebble Beach area, we went back north to the city of Monterey where we visited the Aquarium and Cannery Row. The aquarium is quite amazing and is housed in what was once an old cannery so it has a warehouse type feeling.

They were feeding the sea otters when we first arrived.

Part of the aquarium is outside. You can see sea lions sunning on the rocks. There is a large one on top of the tallest rock in this picture.

Cannery Row was a very quaint area.
Frank and I decided we really liked the Monterey area.

On our way back to San Francisco, we stopped off at Mountain View in search of the Googleplex. As a technology specialist, I can't go back to Georgia without having visited the Google headquarters. Interestingly enough, we drove right in, parked and walked in to the main lobby area without anyone saying anything to us.