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Category: Misc
Ferrari Commercial at Bixby
Now that Labor Day has passed, filming at Bixby Bridge and other places along the coast has resumed. Thursday, in addition to the filming, there were many construction areas along Highway One. It took me 3 and 1/2 hours to get from my home to the VA Clinic in Marina.
Apologies
If you are subscribed for notifications via email for new posts, you just got an email of a new post. That was my error. I am still working on it and verifying things with Rock Knocker. That post on Mud Creek cracks will go up tomorrow morning.
Big Sur Information
Header photo by bigsurkate
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AS OF 2/16/26 — HIGHWAY ONE IS CLOSED FROM RAGGED POINT TO 1 MILE SOUTH OF DEETJEN’S UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO MULTIPLE ROCK AND MUD SLIDES.
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Links for phone users who can’t see the links to the right without scrolling through two years of posts. I’ll start with just a few, but if you have others you wish to see here, let me know.
Big Sur Maps (3) with slide names, locations, etc.: https://bigsurkate.blog/big-sur-interactive-highway-maps-with-slide-names-mile-markers/
Caltrans Interactive Map: https://quickmap.dot.ca.gov/
CHP dispatch: https://cad.chp.ca.gov/Traffic.aspx
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Interactive Highway Map with Mile Markers and slide names is to the right, under “Pages” first one *Big Sur Interactive Maps... if the following link doesn’t work. *Big Sur Interactive Slide Maps will answer any questions you may have about where something is in relation to something else.
MY DIRECT EMAIL IS: kwnovoa(AT)mac(dot)com
AIDS Cycle Ride Schedule – Santa Cruz to Santa Barbara
Today’s Date: Tuesday, May 29, 2018
District: 05–Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz Counties
Contact: Jim Shivers or Colin Jones
Phone: (805) 549-3237 or (805) 549-3189
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AIDS/LIFE CYCLE BICYCLE RIDE ON CENTRAL COAST NEXT WEEK
CENTRAL COAST – The AIDS/Life Cycle Bicycle Ride will move through Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties next week. The cyclists will use the state highway system during the daytime hours between 6:30 am and 7 pm in the following locations:
- Sunday, June 3, the riders will use southbound State Route 1 and US 101 before arriving at Harvey West Park in Santa Cruz County during the afternoon hours.
- On Monday, June 4, the riders will leave Santa Cruz and use portions of southbound State Route 1 and US Highway 101 ending their day at San Lorenzo County Park in King City in Monterey County.
- On Tuesday, June 5, the riders will leave King City and use a portion of southbound US Highway 101 before reaching the Paso Robles Fairgrounds in San Luis Obispo County.
- On Wednesday, June 6, the cyclists will leave Paso Robles using Hwy. 46 West to Hwy. 1 south through Morro Bay and State Route 227 through Pismo Beach before reaching Preisker Park in Santa Maria in Santa Barbara County.
- On Thursday, June 7, the cyclists will leave Santa Maria towards State Route 1 and continue south ending their day at Ryon Memorial Park in Lompoc in Santa Barbara County.
- On Friday, June 8, the riders will leave Lompoc and use State Route 246, State Route 1 and US Highway 101 towards southern Santa Barbara County before ending their day at San Buenaventura State Beach in Ventura County.
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) will be present to maintain a safe environment for motorists, cyclists and support vehicles. The riders will travel single file with the flow of traffic.
Caltrans reminds motorists to move over and slow down when driving through highway construction zones.
For traffic updates on other state highways on the Central Coast motorists can call Caltrans District 5 Public Affairs at (805) 549-3318 or visit the District 5 website
at: http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist05/road_information.htm or for more information on this event you may visit: https://www.aidslifecycle.org/the-experience/the-route/
Saturday Tourists… (4/21/18)
… Came wandering up to my place this morning. A young, polite Chinese couple, clearly in trouble. They had gotten their car stuck in a hole a few miles away. They slept in their car. They had had no food or water. They offered me $200 to take them to the highway. Unfortunately, I was expecting company in an hour – a BSK reader and her husband who had flown in to SFO and were renting a 4×4 Jeep and a place at the bottom of the road from me and who did not know the neighborhood, were coming up. I couldn’t take the couple down.
I offered the use of my phone, but it kept dropping the calls. I drew them a map of where they were, how they needed to go to get out of here. I gave them each a 1/2 gallon of water, bananas, and oranges. I was just sending them on their way, when my son showed up. “Want to make $200??” I asked him. After looking at the photo of their car, he said he could pull them out with his chain, so he loaded them up and took them back to their car. He needs to make his truck payment and works at whatever he can get. Plus, he is just an all-round good guy. Boy did those visitors luck out!
Arroyo Seco Duck Race
I could use a bit of help promoting the Duck Race… (Please check out the link for further information:
This benefits our local firehouse and will help pay for training staff and other such things. This is our main fundraiser. As you can see it’s locals getting together. Mad Otter Ale is supplying the beer, it’s chicken beans and corn on the cob, for $10.00 and a $5.00 donation for a “craft” beer. So for $20.00. you get fed, and two beers, which these days, is a good deal. Other non-alcoholic drinks will be available for purchase. There is a far better chance of winning the Duck Race than the California lottery.
If you could help spread the word…. it would be appreciated…
Cancer Society Annual Fashion Show
Local Cancer Survivors Celebrate Life
Models use runway to share their inspiring stories
SALINAS, CA, February 14, 2018- The American Cancer Society’s annual Celebration of Life Fashion Show takes place Wednesday March 14th, 2018. All of the people modeling are local cancer survivors willing to share their cancer journey to inspire others and create awareness in the community. The 24th annual Celebration of Life Fashion Show ‘Under The Big Top’ includes a silent auction, raffle and luncheon.
Sponsorships are still needed, the deadline for sponsorship is March 5th. Many local businesses are long time sponsors and generous donors to the American Cancer Society’s Celebration of Life Fashion Show including Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System, Taylor Farms, Rabobank, RC Farms, Sammut Brothers, Church Brothers Farms, Pinnacle Bank and Salinas Valley Plastic Surgery Associates. The models will be modeling the latest fashion from the following stores: Chartreuse, Debra C., J. Jill, J. McLaughlin, Sylvie Unique Boutique, and Khaki’s of Carmel.
The 24th annual Celebration of Life fashion show takes place Wednesday, March 14 at the Monterey Hyatt Regency in Monterey. Doors open at 10:30 am for the silent auction. For more information and to purchase tickets visit www.acscelebration.org.
BigSurKate – the blog
Sounds like the movie The Blob doesn’t it? Today marks the start of my 10th year doing this blog. So much history has been recorded as it was occurring…some painful, some joyful and sometimes, just pretty photographs for an escape and calm.
I recreated and published the story of how the blog came to be a year later in 2009. I re-posted it last year, as well, BEFORE the Soberanes Fire took over my life. I’ll reprint that below, edited for clarity. I am working on a complex article that I hope to have ready by tomorrow. So, absent an emergency, I am working on tomorrow’s post today.
“I cannot find my notes, and I did not write in my journal for much of July, as I was far too busy, … I am recreating the day [July 4, 2008] based primarily on a memory with holes in it – swiss cheese holes – a moth-eaten sweater. I also have no photographs taken that day, at least that I can find. The road was closed, as previously posted.
When I first got a copy of the 409.5 memo on 7/4, I called OES (Office of Emergency Services), and they had a Commander Teter of the MCSO call me back. When I got no satisfactory explanation about the issuance of the memo, other than it was to “educate” the Big Sur community about the power the MCSO had, I was furious. The MCSO was flexing its muscles and declaring a police-state in Big Sur, and fully intended on arresting who ever got in their way.
It was a holiday. Everything was closed. What could I do? The only places open were newsrooms. Having lived and worked in Monterey County, much of that in the justice system, I knew I needed to go outside of the county. I called the LA Times newsroom and the SF Chronicle newsroom. I posted something on surfire2008.org. Before my post was removed from surfire2008, Deborah Schoch, a staff reporter from the LA Times called. After speaking with her for some time, I got her phone numbers, and said I’d pass it on to a member of the Curtis family who was not in Big Sur, and if they wanted, they could pass it on to Micah and Ross. This resulted in more phone calls, and more long conversations with Curtis family members and LA Times reporter, Eric Bailey. Only a few days later, he and Deborah Schoch published a 3-page article about the police state in Big Sur. It [was] accessible at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-backfire7-2008jul07,0,3314737.story
This was the start of the battle between Big Sur Locals and Mike Kanalakis, Sheriff of Monterey County. Kanalakis also made the mistake of taking on Cachagua in Carmel Valley. Both were big mistakes.
Thanks to Jim Kimball for archiving posts from surfire2008 and other sources, we have an excellent record of all that happened on this day last year. It was a busy day, with reports from locals coming in up and down the coast all day long. Let’s not forget what it was like to live in this police state from July 3, 2008 to July 8, 2008, when the road opened to locals and their employees, and July 11, 2008 when the road opened completely….”
And here we are in 2017, and the road is closed yet again, but for completely different reasons. July has always been an interesting month. Let’s hope for a little bit of boring this year, shall we?
Remember…
For Memorial Day.
I have lots of photos of Paul’s Slide and of Mud Creek that have been sent to me this weekend, so I’ll get to that and get them up this morning.