The Monterey Peninsula: John Steinbeck Country

Weekend Flash Sale to benefit the SPCA of Monterey County

How grand it is to be back among the Monterey Pines!

Let us hope
it will always be like this,
each of us going on
in our inexplicable ways
building the universe.
~ Mary Oliver

While adventuring through America's most scenic areas is always at the core of these coddiwomples, this year, we're also paying tribute to the places where some of our greatest authors and poets lived, wrote, and are buried.

Currently, we are on the Monterey Peninsula, where John Steinbeck spent his early years, wrote about, and is buried. It also inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's setting for Treasure Island. Wonderful, isn’t it? This area shaped the early adult years of the late mythologist Joseph Campbell, who curiously played a part in breaking up Steinbeck's first marriage. (Story to come!)

While here, we’ll make a pilgrimage into the upper reaches of Big Sur to the Henry Miller Memorial Library.