We got ourselves out of bed this morning and drove down to Andrew Molera State Park in Big Sur. We did the short walk to the beach, played around there, went up to the Bluff Trail, then hit the Ridge Trail to the top of the first crest, then down Hidden Trail and back to the car. We didn’t plan any of it, just went where we felt like it. If we’d brought more water and worn the right clothes we might have gone all the way to the top crest.

It was beautiful, not too sunny and not too hot but the clouds kept letting in enough sunlight for gorgeous pictures. There’s a whole spiel about fresh air and I buy into it completely, I don’t buy into the bugs so much, and the road apples were annoying, but the sheer pleasure of taking in that amazing landscape is worth any climb.