Daily miles 149
I picked up Mrs. Nomad at SFO Thursday morning and we drove down to Pebble Beach. There were a couple of highlights to the trip.
Firstly, Mrs. Nomad runs a startup multinational company and so is always on. She spent the drive down chatting with her work colleagues in different countries on her cellphone and banging away on her super portable laptop with cellular modem card. It was nomadism at its finest.
Secondly, I'm always fascinated by how California puts giant power plants or industrial facilities on the beach. Here's one on the drive down to Carmel.
My favorite is one much further down the coast, and I hope to see it provided that part of Route 1 isn't closed due to the fires.We went into Carmel for a late lunch and to look around. The town is as beautiful and charming as I remembered it from years ago. In our wanderings about town we found an art gallery with some fully Nomad-compatible art, so we may end up investing in it.
Here's a shot from Carmel beach which looks very idyllic.
However, there was a massive cloud bank right over the water which blotted out the sun.
It definitely captures the weight of the fog that we saw. As I mentioned my post about Half Moon Bay there is indeed a lot of fog in Northern California this time of year.
The fog did lead to some stunning scenes. Here's a view from the firepits on the patio of our hotel.
We had the unique pleasure of meeting O.N. (the Original Nomad). He was an older gentleman originally from Port Arthur, TX who was visiting Pebble Beach with his wife to play golf. He had been a sea captain for over two decades and was now doing maritime consulting. He mainly commanded oil tankers and as such got to really see the world. Just as I got a much better appreciation of the vastness of America by driving over it he must have gotten an awesome appreciation of Earth by sailing all over it over the years. I bow to such superior nomadness.Here's a shot of sunset with the sun finally below the cloud layer.
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