What started out with the question of how to burn through some frequent flyer miles that were about to expire but weren't enough to buy a flight (answer: rent a car for the weekend) quickly turned into our very first group trip this side of the Atlantic (sans the rental car, in the end). It was really gratifying to realize, even if the journey's taken a lot longer than we'd expected (and was awkwardly interrupted by a global pandemic that wasn't exactly the best formula for socializing), that we've finally got enough of a social circle in California that we can pull off something like this.
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| Hiking around the Pacific Valley Bluff just south of Big Sur |
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| Sunday afternoon at the beach |
Just like that, we've checked off Big Sur and I've checked off the first half of my thirties.
