San Fran to LA and the 17mile drive

This day we left "our hearts and a lot of great memories" in San Francisco.  We headed for Los Angeles, via the coastal highway to the Monterey Peninsula.  This area is home to beautiful views of the Pacific Ocean, but most famous for the 17-mile drive around the peninsula ending with a visit to the famed Pebble Beach Golf Links.  Throughout this self-guided tour you see breath-taking views of the pacific and Monterey Bay. There are several stops that include Spanish Bay GC, the famous Spyglass Hill GC,  Cypress Point GC (which happened to be under renovation), and the grand-daddy of them all, Pebble Beach Golf Links.  It was great to see to see the harbor seals and sea lions, but for me the main reason to go on this tour was to get to Pebble Beach. I had the opportunity to stand on the first tee and take a picture at Spyglass Hill and most incredibly, stand next to the 18th green at Pebble Beach. I can see the many pictures, in my old mind, of all those champions walking up to the roar of applause.  What a lifetime moment it was for me.  I have now placed this place on my "bucket list" and will start saving for this investment.  The tour and time spent at the pro shop, took longer than we figured so with about 5 hours to go we didn't get to our LA home until well after 10 PM.  We were also delayed a bit by the fact that as we got off the freeway going into Hollywood, we got stuck in the mobs leaving the LA Philharmonic's concert at the Hollywood Bowl. So the crowds and being unfamiliar with the area, lead to the unanticipated stress, not really needed, at the end of a long day.  We finally found our home for the next five days and crashed.  We have some awesome things planned for the next five days in and around LA.