Not the postcard and not the tasting menu. Why a car-culture brand plants itself here, what the fog does to a Sunday drive, and the version of the Peninsula the tourists never quite find.
Place is the one thing you cannot counterfeit.
The straight answer to the question everyone asks with a note of surprise.
People ask why Monterey, usually with a small note of surprise, like they expected me to say Los Angeles or Tokyo or somewhere with more obvious...
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Life on the Monterey Peninsula: local guides, car culture, and the places that make this coast worth living on.
Life on the Monterey Peninsula: local guides, car culture, and the places that make this coast worth living on.
The Friday before Car Week has a feeling you only understand once you have lived it. The transporters are unloading. The hotels are filling. The whole peninsula is holding its breath before ten days of noise, and for one night none of it has started yet. That is the Kickoff. The calm before the storm. … Read more
People ask why Monterey, usually with a small note of surprise, like they expected me to say Los Angeles or Tokyo or somewhere with more obvious gravity. The honest answer is that this is where I stopped feeling lost. Monterey does not perform. It has the ocean and the fog and a car culture that … Read more
The Porsches were parked on a Hollywood backlot, on a fake New York street that has stood in for a hundred movies, under the clock tower seen in Back to the Future. A 1967 911 sat where a taxi should have been. A Rothmans rally car on the dirt street of an old western movie, … Read more
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