[alfa] re: places to stay in Carmel

[Tessie McMillan <tessmc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I love Carmel. I try to find the smallest, most unusual accommodation 
that most regular people (or as I like to describe them, the non 
risk-takers) are not willing to accept, or even opt for different bed 
arrangements. Two singles got a great rate one weekend in a motel on the 
main east-west drag, during Pebble Beach weekend! I'd recommend trying 
the B&Bs first. You might have to share a bathroom, but who cares when 
they serve sherry at 4 in the afternoon?

I'd suggest doing a google on Carmel with a map pulled up to the side, 
and call the places that look interesting. It adds so much to a vacation 
to actually stay _in_ Carmel, where the air is so rarefied one can feel 
one's pocketbook emptying as one walks down the street. If you stay _out_ 
of Carmel, then you still have to _drive_ there, which in and of itself if 
you're driving a Spider can be very fun, but still is not the same as 
being _in_ and gives you less time to stroll around and look at the 
_other_ cars that are _in_ Carmel.

We did once stumble onto what can only euphemistically be described as a 
flophouse (with bullet dents in the steel doors), but that was on the 
outskirts of town in desperation at 11:00 at night after we had planned 
to be in another city but couldn't make it in time (long story). I think 
you're safe if you look on the Net ;-).

Tess
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