Childless Summer Adventures 2021 (2/5) – Carmel-by-the-Sea

Childless Summer Adventures 2021 (2/5) – Carmel-by-the-Sea

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On our second childless weekend, we took a half-day trip to Monterey and Carmel-by-the-sea.  We jumped into the car earl in the morning, took a nice drive down, had a cup of coffee on the Monterey boardwalk, traversed the 17-mile drive, and strolled through downtown Carmel.  It reminded us of the year when we first moved to California, when we’d freely pull off these spur-of-the-moment road trips.

Coffee & pastry at Water + Leaves, on the Monterey’s Old Fisherman’s Wharf.
Old Fisherman’s Wharf.
A random stop on the 17-Mile Drive.
Practicing some childless Zen by stacking rocks rather than LEGO blocks.
Fat squirrels.
An inspiring art gallery at downtown Carmel. We got really into paintings by Patrick Rousseau and Daniel Castan. But how do people afford real art? The smallest of these pictures cost more than our two cars combined…

On the way home, we stopped in Milpitas for lunch before shopping at a couple places for art supplies so we could try (and fail miserably at) replicating some paintings that we saw at a gallery in Carmel.  We were surprised by how, with nobody in the back seat, we actually had enough energy to be running around all day again.

Xian Kitchen, our now-favorite Xian restaurant. Their pao mo (泡饃), a niche dish, is one of the few things everyone in our family loves to eat.
Time to replicate those master pieces seen at the gallery! End results not shown here because, you know, copyright.

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