Stretching from sunny Southern California to the foggy forests of the North’s “Lost Coast,” the renowned Pacific Coast Highway travels through a spectacular, diverse landscape, hundreds of years of human culture, and often, the lack there of. Californians hold a special reverence for this coastline and its highway. Having come here in my youth, I always marveled at the atmosphere of untamed wilderness, despite the millions of visitors, each destined to “get over to the water and enjoy some peace and quiet.” However, if you have ever, for even one winter, relied on any section of this road as a viable thoughfare, you will know that invariably parts of it will rudely slither away into the hungry Pacific, leaving you to find an alternative route. Thus it maintains its beauty and respect. - JC