“Naturally people are always concerned, but Californians continue to travel despite an increase in fuel prices,” said John McMahon, president of the Monterey County Convention and Visitors Bureau. “We’re keeping an eye on it, but we’re not alarmed by it.”
“The last time we saw a price increase, we were nervous about it, but we didn’t see an impact like we feared,” McMahon said. “Being that most visitors live within 150 miles, it’s not going to be a dramatic effect.”
Darn.
Pacific Grove — all of Monterey County, in fact — has not been living up to its reputation lately.
“I thought it was going to be chillier,” Gatling said, in an understated reference to the bright sunshine and mid-70s temperatures of what turned out to be the warmest Nov. 15 in Monterey since 1949.
The record surprised plenty of other people, too.
After all, Central Coast locals have been waiting for a heat wave like this — well, OK, a warm wave like this — since September. But it didn’t come, and didn’t come, until most everybody had just about given up on it.