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MontereySan Simeon

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Narrated by The Chronicler 151 km · about 123 min · 23 stories

Highway 1 from the Custom House to Hearst's castle, with Big Sur in between: Robinson Jeffers building his stone tower by hand, the engineering of the Bixby Creek Bridge, the Los Burros gold rush nobody remembers, and the lime kilns hidden in the redwoods.

The stories

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  1. 1
    Monterey, California

    Monterey's Old Custom House

  2. 2
    Carmel, California

    Building the Royal Presidio

  3. 3
    Carmel, California

    The Whaling History of Point Lobos

  4. 4
    Carmel, California

    Cannery Row Industrial Rise

  5. 5
    Carmel, California

    Governing the Carmel Art Colony

  6. 6
    Monterey, California

    Steinbeck's Monterey Literary Muse

  7. 7
    Big Sur, California

    The Point Sur Lighthouse

  8. 8
    Big Sur, California

    The Origins of Deetjen's Inn

  9. 9
    Big Sur, California

    Robinson Jeffers's Stone Poetry Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  10. 10
    Big Sur, California

    Robinson Jeffers's Stone Poetry Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  11. 11
    Big Sur, California

    Robinson Jeffers's Stone Poetry Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  12. 12
    Big Sur, California

    The History of McWay Falls

  13. 13
    Big Sur, California

    The Monterey Bay Aquarium Origins

  14. 14
    Big Sur, California

    Engineering the Big Creek Bridge

  15. 15
    Big Sur, California

    The Santa Lucia's Rugged Ascent

  16. 16
    Big Sur, California

    The Rockland Lime Operation

  17. 17
    Big Sur, California

    The Henry Miller Memorial Library

  18. 18
    Big Sur, California

    The Los Burros Gold Rush

  19. 19
    Big Sur, California

    Engineering the Bixby Creek Bridge

  20. 20
    Big Sur, California

    The Bohemian Reputation of Big Sur

  21. 21
    San Simeon, California

    The San Carpóforo Canyon Expedition

  22. 22
    San Simeon, California

    The Engineering of Neptune Pool

  23. 23
    San Simeon, California

    Building La Cuesta Encantada

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.