Got a fairly early start this morning - 6:30a or so.  Drove the coast and was on US1 for most of the way - again, it was freaken' awesome.  And, truth be told, a little scary.  When they say that this is the Pacific Coast Highway, they mean it - the Pacific Coast is just steps away from most of the route.  Like yesterday, there were very very few guardrails and just inches from the edge of the road begins the long tumble away into nothingness.  I'm certainly not a namby-pamby "the state has to protect us from ourselves" kind of guy, but it is kind of surprising that you'd find this in California of all places!