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Highway 1 on the mid-Californian coast is the road you see in car ads, a stunning stretch of road that deserves to be driven in a red convertible. The climax is the route through Big Sur, where the stomach-dropping turns edge the bluffs as you gape in awe at the

By Richard West Late summer. Heat. Ennui.  Your imagination as empty as a Magritte sky. When your usual brisk pace changes to a Willy Loman posture shuffle.  The month when your days of wine and roses turn to days of whine and neuroses. Don’t despair, the remedy is at the