Weekend day two.

Could have slept better, damaging the rental car is going to bug me for a bit. Finally got up at 6:30 local.

Stuck with just yogurt this AM, could have been the worrying that was upsetting my stomach, or too much food last night. Then went out and looked at the car. I was able to anchor some of it back up with tie-wraps and just decided to take other parts off. Later when we left we looked at where I must have driven, two more hunks of plastic there. Later looking at the car again they were most likely mine. It looks like what happened was, I swung wide when I turned on to the street. Instead of there being a shoulder, there was a drain hole to run water under the street. One side of the street is paved and curbed, the other is dirt that is not at street height.

About 10 AM we left for Pebble Beach ... area. I had thought we could stop at a cemetery on the way down but it was still raining. It quit by the time we got to the beach. Actually we stopped at a lighthouse first. It was closed. Right across the street was a cemetery with deer grazing. They were still there four hours later when we were leaving town.

A few blocks from the light house ... imagine that, a lighthouse by a beach ... we parked and walked on the beach for a bit. Found the rock in memory of John Denver. Watched the waves, watched the birds, watched the surfer.

Then we drove a mile or so and walked on a trail along the cliff for another half hour.

... and after that it was time to eat. Ate at a place called the Red House ... and it was a red house. Place was full so we were the 1st people to sit at the tables outside. A few minutes later there was a line, I think there was still a line when we left. I got eggs benedict and BB got a chicken sandwich. Both very good. Right across the street was a candy house. We didn't go in, we were both stuffed.

After we ate, we circle back around to the lighthouse. Walked around the outside of the building and left. We didn't pay to go inside, we didn't pay for anything today except food.

A few blocks away was the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary. It's only a couple of acres of woods but we likely spent an hour there. Interesting to note that 20 years ago there was an estimated 45,000 at this location. Two years ago there were 1,000. This year less than that. Instead of there being butterflies everywhere, there is a volunteer there to point out where they are. We talked to the guy for over half the time we were there. It does sound like there was an increase in the numbers of the 'eastern' ones, the ones that go to Mexico for the winter.

After we left the butterflies, we drove down along the cliffs again on our way out of town.

It was no longer raining on the way back so we stopped at the cemetery. The office is closed on Saturday and Sundays. 2,000+ graves so we didn't even walk around looking. Others that were there had their lawn chairs. It is different out here.

We went back to the motel for a while before going to Erik's Deli to eat. Originally I had looked at a different deli but then I saw this one last night and forgot the name of the other one. Two meals today that were more BB's 'healthy' style. She just had soup and I had soup and a reuben. Sandwich was good, soup was a little weak, thin. BB's had some kick to it. Later BB said they did have cookies, I didn't notice, but I did see they had big pieces of carrot cake.

Driving back in the dark tonight, it was easy to see how I did what I did. Still not a good feeling. Likely won't be tomorrow when we turn the car back in.

Plan is to get back into town (where we rented it) early and stop and talk to them before we drop the car. Then when we drop it will just be the usual drop the keys.