After leaving Sequoia National Park, we headed across the central Californian valley towards Monterey, stopping for lunch in Fresno. Approaching Monterey we started to get excited, seeing the golden hills of California reminded us strongly of our time living in the Bay Area. Then we hit the bank of fog coming off the Pacific and remembered just how much the temperature can vary during the summer months in this part of the world. Camping might prove interesting.
We’d just spent a couple of days of camping in Sequoia – and the previous days of camping were just before the unpleasant night in Bakersfield (see the last post for details on that) – so we were quite ready to get a hotel for the night. As it turned out, this proved once again to be difficult at short notice, with Monterey being a popular summertime destination. So we ended up in the Veteran’s Memorial Park Campground, which at least had hot showers included in the nightly fee.
We set up our tents as the fog…