I’m starting grad school on monday! Somehow, even though I was working 6 days a week, 6 hours away from Monterey, I was able to find an apartment in Monterey. Now I actually live here! This weather beats the shit out of both the valley, where I lived before, and the mountains (at least in the summer) where I just spent 3 months. I think I’ll get used to foggy evenings and mornings real fast. 
And the seals barking at dawn–heaven. Spent a year and a half there at The Presidio. My barracks room looked down (from Castle Gloom as we called it) over the bay. If Alligator & Bayou Boogie are still playing the clubs down there you simply MUST go. I often think I’d rather be homeless in Monterey than…here. In fact I think I have just enough cash to pay for gas to get there…Hmm.
For me its the planes taking off from the airport, which is literally right behind my building. Its on Casanova Ave, just south of the city border with Seaside. But my landlady tells me that the airport is paying for double pane windows for the whole neighborhood, so that shouldn’t be a problem anymore.
My husband did his residency training at Fort Ord…when there WAS a Fort Ord (1983-1986). Our first son was born there. We lived first on Surf Way and then later on Skyline Dr. I saw dolphins in the oceans when we lived at Surf Way. I saw the bay and the airpost from Skyline Dr. I loved Monterey. My only regret was that the weather was so perfect that there was never a fall. No leaf changing. No crisp air. No snow later. But Monterey, and Pacific Grove, and Salinas, and Carmel, were all so much fun.
I live in North Carolina now and sometimes I wish I was back on the west coast.
I am so jealous…I dream of living in Monterey. I love the seals barking as was mentioned previously. After visiting for the first time, I immediately read all the Steinbeck books I could fine.
I love the Aquarium. If I were going to live there, I’d pick a house in Pacific Grove in that neighborhood behind the aquarium. Just a cute little bungalow…nothing fancy…of course those houses are about a million each by now. :rolleyes:
Monterey may be the best place I’ve ever been, and I’ve been around the block a few times. Try Rosine’s - never had a bad meal there.
Don’t forget to try Tillie Gort’s.
What grad school/course are you attending?
Graduate School of International Policy Studies at the Monterey Institute for International Studies.
Ouch. I should stretch more before throwing around big words.
Oh, I was at the Presidio of Monterey too, and my room looked down the slope to the bay. For a girl raised in Kansas I was in Heaven! Were you in the DLI language classes(I was a 98G2lKP) or did you have another MOS?
Monterey was where I learned what good seafood was all about. Fisherman’s Wharf was great even if you didn’t have any money, the people watching was first rate!
It’s been a long time, but I had some of the best times of my life there.
My father was at the DLI in '71 – the year I was born. We lived in Pacific Grove, and I was born in the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP). We weren’t there for long, so I don’t remember a single thing about it, but I have always intended to go back there someday.
98G Arabic linguist/electronic warfare/secret squirrel; granulated in 1993 after 63 fun-filled weeks. Only got one article 15 while I was there–I’m such a prude.