Travel

One of our favorite relatively short road trips is to head down to the Monterey Peninsula. It's about a 2-1/2- to 3-hour drive from Marin, making it perfect for a day trip, overnight, or weekend. (What makes this easier for us is that we have good friends in Pacific Grove who are willing to put up with us every so often for a few days.) A favorite place to visit, especially with small children, is the Monterey Bay Aquarium

 We just got back from one of my favorite family getaways—a little jewel of a beach town called Pacific Grove. Pacific Grove is a bastion of small-town America that bills itself as “America’s Last Hometown.” It’s nestled between the city of Monterey, Pebble Beach, the Pacific Ocean, and Monterey Bay. One of my kids’ favorite spots in Pacific Grove (or PG, as the locals call it) is Asilomar State Beach. The white sand beach is the perfect place to build sandcastles or to splash at the shore. There’s also a great walking path that follows the shore on and off throughout Pacific Grove. Along the walkway are a numerous small beaches where children can explore tide pools and see starfish, crabs and anemones.
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