When we got up at 7 in the morning in Big Sur, we did not know that this would be the probably most intense day we've had so far on our roadtrip through California. We packed our tent and all the other things, had some cereals for breakfast and packed everything in the Silver Surfer, who at this point just had completed his first 100,000 miles! Happy Birthday!
Our first destination was Pebble Beach in Carmel, the town with probably the highest amount of millionaires living in one place. It was insane! We had to pay 10$ to enter the so called "17 miles drive" which was a narrow street that led us through the millionaire/billionaire village of Carmel. One huge house next to another - you have to have seen this!
After that it was time for our second breakfast. We celebrated our comeback to civilization after three days with some hotdogs from 7-eleven at 10am. The best - and actually first - real hotdog that I've ever had.
We were then heading for Santa Cruz, a small coast town that actually looks quite Spanish. Like some other Cities on the Californian Coast it has a pier and a funpark next to it. We were not staying there for long because we wanted to arrive in San Francisco at five.
Ferdi, our driver on this day, had to concentrate on the street for the next hour, while we could enjoy seeing the redwood forest on our way to Stanford - thanks for that Ferdi! Soon after, we arrived at Stanford University - a must-see according to Freddy. And he was right! The campus of Stanford is great. Everything is built with sand stone of the same colour, there are flowers and trees (and Mexicans watering them) everywhere. First thing we did: More fastfood at Subway! Then we walked round campus to see where Steve Jobs, Sergey Brin and Larry Page had studied. I can recommend everyone to go there. After we could not stand the heat anymore, we decided to continue our trip and go to San Francisco accompanied by our California Soundtrack (Californication, San Francisco, California Dreaming, etc.).