Tag: “Stuart Highway”

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  1. Stuart Highway, Australia

    Stuart Highway is the grant highway, bringing the North- and Southside of Australia together.
    Every night many kangaroos die on this highway due to roadtrains.
    Roadtrains are trucks that get upto 150feet in length.

  2. Mono Lake State Reserve

    A massive saline lake in the sierras, Mono Lake has no outlet and is the natural collection point for all of the salts and minerals that wash down out of the mountains. This high mineral concentration has over the many years formed giant tufa, or calcium carbonate spires that jut up out of the lake like stalagmites.

  3. The Other Highway 1

    Everybody who comes to San Francisco and has gone to Carmel has driven Highway 1, and has noted how beautiful the drive is. hogwash, I say!

  4. Great Highway

    Highway 35, the great highway is the road featured at the end of the book Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson.

  5. Auto Return

    The is actually a place you do not want to see, but for some it will become the one place you Must see on your trip to San Francisco. All one must do is park a vehicle anywhere in San Francisco that the Department of Parking and Towing deems illegal, and then you will have a very good reason to visit this unwelcoming destination.

  6. Pigeon Point Lighthouse

    Pigeon Point Lighthouse is one of the many (and easily accessible) lighthouses scattered along the California coastline. The last time I’ve been there, the federal government was trying to sell the lighthouse to a private party because the $1 million annual maintenance cost was burning a hole in their budget.

  7. Big Creek Bridge

    While Bixby Bridge is one of the most photographed bridges in California, it is likely that neighboring Big Creek Bridge takes top honors. Traveling north five miles beyond Lucia on Route 1, you'll see the bridge in the distance and a paved and often busy parking lot where people are out of their cars looking and taking photos.

  8. Nepenthe

    Nepenthe literally means "the one that chases away sorrow" and it first appears in Homer's Odyssey... more loosely translated, it is the drug of forgetfulness.

    However, the restaurant Nepenthe feels like entering a lair of one of Bond's arch-nemesis villains.

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