Everyone Loves a Parade

South of San Francisco Highway 1 becomes a parade. It also stops being a candidate for one of the world's best roads and turns into a mishmash of six lane freeway followed by suburban stop and go hell followed by straight, flat, two lane boredom and back around again. 

We'll see if Monterey to Los Angeles improves any.

But there is at least one thing that makes this section of Highway 1 worthwhile: Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz is worth whatever traffic nightmares it takes to get there.