{"id":32027,"date":"2018-10-07T15:03:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T23:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparselysageandtimely.com\/blog\/?p=32027"},"modified":"2023-12-18T20:02:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T04:02:49","slug":"snapshots-from-the-2nd-half-of-our-honeymoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/?p=32027","title":{"rendered":"Snapshots from the 2nd half of our honeymoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shoreline along Cannery Row in Monterey<\/strong> with a memorial to author John Steinbeck, who gave the area a special allure with his romanticized novel Cannery Row and its sequel, Sweet Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n

As regular readers of this blog know, Lynn Axelrod and I were married April 26 at Civic Center. The following month, we drove 80 miles up the coast to Gualala, where we went canoeing on the Gualala River, for the first half of our honeymoon. This past week we drove (actually Lynn did the driving) 160 miles down the coast to Monterey for the second half of our honeymoon.<\/p>\n

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The second photo down shows the living room in our suite, the Borogrove, with its view of Monterey Bay.<\/em><\/p>\n

We stayed at an inn with a storybook quality<\/strong>, The Jabberwock, which is located in a mansion built in 1911. I’m sure many of you remember The Jabberwocky. <\/em>It’s a nonsense poem in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass<\/em>, the sequel to Alice in Wonderland<\/em>. The Jabberwocky begins:<\/p>\n

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves\/Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:\/All mimsy were the borogoves,\/ And the mome raths outgrabe. <\/em><\/div>\n
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Beware the Jabberwock, my son!\/The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!\/Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun\/The frumious Bandersnatch!<\/em><\/div>\n
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However, the young man armed with a vorpal sword <\/em>is able to slay the beast, and his father is ecstatic:<\/div>\n
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And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?\/ Come to my arms, my beamish boy!\/ O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Complementing our joy:<\/strong> we found red and white wine, sherry, and hors d’oeuvres set out each evening in the inn’s enclosed sun porch. We also found a bottle of champagne, a decanter of brandy, and a plate of chocolate-fudge-coated strawberries in our room when we arrived.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Part of the Monterey County shoreline<\/strong> is within Asilomar State Park, and Lynn and I enjoyed several strolls along the water.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Flocks of pelicans<\/strong> could be seen frequently as they glided above the shore break.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Since I wasn’t smoking in the inn<\/strong>, these walks also provided opportunities to enjoy my pipe.<\/em><\/div>\n
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An official sign in a public restroom<\/strong> in Asilomar State Park. I wonder how many dogs can read it.<\/em><\/div>\n
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A visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium<\/strong> was one of the highlights of our trip. Probably the aquarium’s most popular exhibit is a tank of sea otters swimming casually around, typically on their backs.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Another particularly popular exhibit is a tank of puffins that paddle about seemingly oblivious of the crowds watching them.<\/em><\/div>\n
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A sea turtle swam above us.<\/em><\/div>\n
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As we wandered from one exhibit to another, schools of fish would sometimes give us the eye.<\/em><\/div>\n
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We saw exotic jellyfish and ….<\/em><\/div>\n
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…some of their luminescent cousins.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Throughout our stay in Monterey, we enjoyed sunny days, <\/strong>even when a few light sprinkles fell. What rain we had fell at night. At left a jet flies under a dramatic rainbow, which we could see from the inn for almost 40 minutes Wednesday late in the afternoon. From our perspective, we’d found the pot of gold.<\/em><\/div>\n
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