If you take a drive down route 1, about an hour south of Monterey are some of the most gorgeous stretches of beach and coastline I’ve ever seen.  As you leave Monterey, you pass Pebble Beach, Carmel, and eventually make it to Big Sur.  I travelled there a few months ago when my in-laws came to visit.  It was foggy and boring, as the weather is typically.  However, at the bridge the fog was a blanket hovering a few hundred feet from the ground. As we drove further, we stopped to see the sun beneath this blanket at the most incredible lagoon.  Let the pictures speak for themselves…it was gorgeous!