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[Music] by the way good morning everyone today we are taking a quick overnight road trip starting right here in San Francisco driving all the way down the Pacific Coast Highway - the magical scenic stretch of Big Sur if you're visiting San Francisco and you haven't been to Big Sur this is very much a worthwhile getaway trip from the city we haven't made any reservation so this is pretty last-minute but you can easily do this road trip in a day overnight or if you have more time make it a longer trip there are so many beautiful places to stop along the way but since we're only going for an overnight trip we're going to make the most out of this trip and hopefully show you the places you can't miss for a quick 24 hour road trip in California [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we are here at Henry Cowell State Park walking among the beautiful giant redwood trees this is our first stop on a road trip between San Francisco to Big Sur henry cowell redwood State Park is a 15-minute drive from downtown Santa Cruz and is famous for its old-growth redwood trees some of the redwood trees here are thousands of years old there is one famous redwood tree that they've actually named the giant anywhere between 1,500 to 2,000 years old there are numerous hiking trails riding trails and over a hundred campsites if you want to spend more time among these beautiful peaceful Giants [Music] after spending about an hour in the redwoods we made our way down into Monterey Monterey is a beautiful seaside town and everything that makes Monterey famous really is all about the surrounding scenic views there are so many activities in Monterey you could spend an entire weekend here since we were short on time and trying to keep our 24-hour trip on a low budget we skipped the main attraction the Monterey Bay Aquarium instead we parked the car and wandered around cannery row for just a little while then took a drive down the Pacific Grove coast found lovers Point Beach and explored the tide pools if you're traveling on a budget and not camping like us Monterey has numerous options for all kinds of bargain hotels for less than $100 a night we had no problem finding a budget Lodge in Monterey but anything south of Monterey can get really pricey where Airbnb Zoar hotels are on average around 300 dollars a night [Music] the next morning we found a local coffee shop called aloha coffee for a quick bite and Hawaiian lattes then continued on down Highway 1 to Big Sur by the way you guys I have these epic performance bars if you want so if you're hungry yes there's four different flavors tell you what we got first lemon bars all the ingredients are on the front right there these are paleo and whole 30 compliant I don't know how you guys do paleo Merkle 30 but it works peanut butter chocolate you can never go wrong with the other chakra we got just straight peanut butter almond butter chocolate that sounds pretty good I just restocked these epic performance bars for our 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into the ocean we're gonna see how close we can get to the waterfall I don't think we can even go down to the beach we're walking down to the viewing area the closest you can get to Mick wave Falls is just this deck that they've built no one can actually get on the beach can't get under the waterfall can just view it look but no touch [Music] [Music] we are at deep Jen's it's a restaurant and an inn there's like all of these really cute little like very small Lodge Chalet type rooms around here and the sign for Dee Jen's came up really fast off of the highway about ten minutes north of McQuay Falls and it's so beautiful the air is just so refreshing here we're gonna see if we can just sit down and get a meal it doesn't look crowded though this parking lot is completely empty which is very surprising because every place we have driven by on highway one in the Big Sur region has been very overcrowded cars are everywhere it's a Sunday afternoon we wanted to go to the Big Sur River Inn but the place looked packed people were waiting outside so we're gonna try this place first bummer missed the meal time oh wow [Music] so unfortunately we missed breakfast and we're going to miss dinner because we have to leave but they did recommend us to go to a tap room which is just like 10 minutes up highway wyman quick turn off let's go [Music] you got anything good Wi-Fi there's no cellphone service like barely anywhere around Big Sur so we just stopped at the big Serb Tap House it's pretty quiet so I feel like I need to be kind of quiet we asked what the recommendations are pork tacos and hot ribbon them over way over there heating vent our tires and then I got the ribbon here alright I'm digging in [Music] we are kind of at the end of the day so we're trying to make our last stop in Big Sur which is going to be pfeiffer beach it's kind of a tricky place to find because there are no signs signifying where it is oh is that it Oh going downhill that's it yes toilet easy sighs OH narrow no pedestrian okay so the directions are off of highway 1 to pass the post-office and take the first left paved road after the bridge but there's a bunch of bridges and we've already got this whole bridge thing very confused we leave the turn it's down going downhill there are lines to go down here factory Beach is a very popular place to go watch the sunset there's this famous rock formation with this like keyhole at sunset the light is supposed to shine through the keyhole very nicely let me say go we can't just stay in line well the parking lot just filled up he said we kind of have to either turn around and get back in line hopefully I think that we've spots will open up okay you know when you go to places in California that people all over the world also come and see you're bound to not be able to go to the places that you'd like [Music] since we couldn't get into pfeiffer beach we continued driving back up highway 1 crossing the historic Bixby bridge at sunset [Music] what is that you want to eat one of my bucket list adventures is to walk around and an active volcano thanks for driving step you have been a great show for us this time a really nice weekend really quick getaway weekend [Music]