Mugged in Monterey

With our weekend in Big Sur coming to an end, we rolled into Monterey to spend a few of the work days. There, not far out of town, is a county park that allows camping, up to 3 days. This would work out perfectly for us as we wanted to stay only a few nights before making the jump over to visit my family for the last days of the week.

We had a non work day in town to spend as a tourist, so we called up Lyft for a ride (one of the great things van-camping so close to town) and got chauffeured straight to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. There we were immediately mugged for an outrageous sum of $100 for us to enter the aquarium in which we both agreed was way too much. Certainly too much for the average family to pay to bring their 2.3 children to learn about preservation and wildlife. We were not alone in this thought, as others complained out loud to the staff and some walked away instead. We opted to be nice silent victims and be an oblivious tourist for the day – afterwards walking the Cannery Row and eating lunch at a touristy dinner before calling for our chauffeur to return us to our mansion in the hills.