Monterey-Carmel

Santa Clara is a long way from Monterey and you have to drive through Santa
Cruz on a Saturday. Try Salinas for cheaper accomodations. Should be a
motel 6 or 8 there.

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Thanks Patty for your email.

We will be going onto Monterey-Carmel for a 10 days stay and we have
accomodations. However, we have this one day on a Friday night where we
need to stay somewhere that is not too far from Monterey, that is why I
picked Santa Clara. We will be landing in San Francisco the night before
and will be staying close to the airport.

If you have any other suggestions, I would more than welcome them.

Thanks again
Norm & Lily
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Norm wrote:
a Friday night where we need to stay somewhere that is not too far
from Monterey, that is why I picked Santa Clara.

If what is mean by "not too far" is about seventy miles, you're OK.

We will be landing in San Francisco the night before and will be
staying close to the airport.

I hope you're aware that you won't be in San Francisco.
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Santa Clara is a long way from Monterey and you have to drive through
Santa Cruz on a Saturday. Try Salinas for cheaper accomodations. Should
be a motel 6 or 8 there.

Nope, you can still drive south on 101 through Gilroy. We went that way and
stopped off at San Juan Bautista, a satisfyingly sleepy little town with a
well-preserved mission.

Marianne

I now have take the advice of some of you and opted for a Travelodge in
Salinas. Have any of you stayed here or know about it?

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Norm wrote:
I now have take the advice of some of you and opted for a Travelodge in
Salinas. Have any of you stayed here or know about it?

I haven't stayed in that one, but it should fit your needs fine for
a clean, inexpensive place to stay before you continue to Monterey.

The Steinbeck Center's website is at www.steinbeck.org. Its visitors'
guide page has links to sites with more information about the Salinas
area.


Patty

Thanks Patty-you have been a great help.



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Norm wrote:
Thanks Patty:
You just about hit the nail on the head. You mention beautiful parks in
the Santa Clara area. Perhaps, you could enlighten me.
This would interest us particularly that my wife is an artist and is
always on the lookout for unique places to draw and paint.
Thanks again
Norm

A park between Salinas and Monterey with great views of Monterey Bay is
Jacks Peak County Park:
http://www.co.monterey.ca.us/parks/Jacks_Peak.htm

In the Santa Cruz Mtns., check out any of the parks on this map (click
on the park for a link to maps and panoramas):
http://www.virtualparks.org/regions/sc-mtns-mid-qtvr-map.html

Thanks Carmen -my wife and I will check this one out, as we are doing a
series of articles on romantic venues in the Monterey-Carmel area.



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Actually I have driven both ways, but use to go from Santa Clara to Scotts
Valley for business and is my normal route.

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"Bill McKee" wrote in message
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Santa Clara is a long way from Monterey and you have to drive through
Santa Cruz on a Saturday. Try Salinas for cheaper accomodations. Should
be a motel 6 or 8 there.

Nope, you can still drive south on 101 through Gilroy. We went that way
and stopped off at San Juan Bautista, a satisfyingly sleepy little town
with a well-preserved mission.

Marianne

"Bill McKee" wrote in message
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Santa Clara is a long way from Monterey and you have to drive through
Santa
Cruz on a Saturday. Try Salinas for cheaper accomodations. Should be a
motel 6 or 8 there.

Do you have to take 101 to get to Salinas? It used to be 101 on a Friday
afternoon/evening in the summer was a parking lot, as that is the way to LA
from the South Bay. Has that gotten better? (I know SFO to Salinas is
about a 2 hour drive without traffic. With traffic it could be forever.)