19/7: At one end of the 17 Mile Drive lies the little beach community Carmel-By-The-Sea. Odd place. The houses are built so close to each other, it’s as if the huddle together to be safe from the winter storms – but the houses in themselves are big and shiny and the place reeks of money. For some reason, it made me think of Aguas Calientes, the last small town before steep climb up to Machu Picchu in Peru. Not only were they both very densely built, but there was also an air of artificiality about it. It didn’t feel organic, despite all the trees and flowers. It felt so much man made, even more so than the center of a multi million city. Cities have their own eco systems and logics. This was just something inbetween.
But the beach was pretty. I’ll grant them that.
Katja Malmborg 