"Oh, my God, look at that!" My wife, Sara, and I have just driven around one of those hip-hugging turns on Highway 1 in California's Big Sur region. They used to make me nervous - the fact that ...

About 10 miles into the Big Sur International Marathon, runners begin a 2-mile climb up Hurricane Point. It's the longest, steepest ascent on the route, with a rise of almost 600 feet. The road, ...

High above the Pacific Ocean, on Big Sur’s dramatic coastline, there stands a restaurant that transcends its food. Nepenthe is proof that the joy of eating is due only in small part to what is on a ...

The sky, softened to a shadowy slate blue, set a subtle background for a dark silhouette of foliage against the horizon, the sea a silver shimmer through the spaces. The light was low, the colors, ...

Big Sur isn’t a clearly demarcated space on the map so much as a general location in our collective state of California-dreaming. “Big Sur is very like Valhalla,” Hunter S. Thompson once wrote, “a ...

There are few spots that are as immediately awe-inspiring as Big Sur. The coastal California town is a world of its own; it’s a relatively untouched place, with unspoiled landscapes and jaw-dropping ...

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