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You know you've arrived somewhere special when the bathroom graffiti doesn't relate who hearts whom or when so-and-so was there, but instead counsels that 'the untouched world lies only beyond the limitations of man'. Yet Big Sur is more an experience than one tangible place. With a population hovering around 2000 scattered amid 250 sq miles, Big Sur has no traffic lights, banks or strip malls, and when the sun goes down, the moon and stars are the only streetlights, if summer's dense fog hasn't extinguished those as well. Much ink has been spilled extolling the raw beauty and energy of this stretch of land shoehorned between the Santa Lucia Range and the Pacific Ocean, but nothing quite prepares you for your first glimpse of the craggy, unspoiled coastline, painted with nature's most intense color palette.

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