BIG SUR, CA

We drove until the road ended at Paul’s Slide. This was just south of Big Sur and there had been a mudslide that shut down miles and miles of Highway 1. Where we were headed had only recently opened back up. The lodge where we made plans to stay even told us that the construction crew may stop us and if they did we would have to show them our reservations to be let through. 

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3500 BC: Native American tribes inhabit the region today known as Big Sur. Cut off by the mountains, the tribes were small. Estimates range from a few hundred to a thousand or so.