Monterey Bay Bound:

An overall view of Monterey Bay, Fornicalia -- which shows the very deep canyon just a few miles offshore to the west. Click to expand the view, and you will see the city of Santa Cruz to the north, and Monterey to the south.

That's it. I've temporarily had enough.

It's time for my wife and I to leave work and our stress behind.

I made reservations for five nights at one of the premier hotels in Monterey, Fornicalia. This is a late birthday present/anniversary for my wife. We are celebrating five years. Five years, what's that? A paperclip?

We'll be in a 540-square foot suite with a direct top-floor view of Monterey Bay, at the height of whale-watching season.

Time for a visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Bubba Gump's Shrimp Company, and a host of other wonderful places on the ocean, to include J&S Surplus in Moss Landing -- a wonderful store full of military memorabilia, paintball equipment, surplus, clothing, books, knives and collectibles!

Boys and girls, if it's Friday, we're driving there right now.

Posting will not stop. I hope to have, however, some updated photographs on our tours and travels.

Excelsior!

BZ

The motel where we'll be staying. It is situated directly on the bay, just north of Breakwater Cove, the US Coast Guard station and Fisherman's Shoreline Park, right on Cannery Row.