So this is a first for me. I am actually writing a blog in my tent. I am camping in Big Sur this weekend with fellow In The Know Traveler Jesse Siglow and his wife. It’s been a beautiful day, and it just started to rain a little outside. The beauty of Big Sur has inspired writers from Henry Miller to Steinbeck to Kerouac. I am enjoying imagining what they might have written if they were hunting and pecking away on an Apple iPhone, listening to the sound of raindrops hitting their tent's rain-fly…

Written and photographed by Jason Fitzpatrick

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